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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A vehicle fleeing a Philadelphia hospital after dropping off a gunshot victim early Saturday struck three nurses who were trying to treat the patient, injuring one critically, authorities said. The silver Jeep Cherokee had just dropped off the man in the ambulance bay at Penn Presbyterian Hospital about 4:30 a.m. Saturday when

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has accused South Korea of deliberately avoiding responsibility for the alleged flights of South Korean drones over the North’s capital. North Korea’s foreign ministry has claimed that South Korean drones carrying anti-North Korean propaganda leaflets were detected in

SAO PAULO (AP) — Around 1.4 million homes in Sao Paulo, Brazil, are without power almost 24 hours after a brief but powerful storm swept through South America’s largest city. Officials in Sao Paulo state said Saturday that record wind gusts Friday night of up to 67 mph or 108 kph knocked down transmission lines

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Police say Norway is introducing temporary border checks on its frontiers with other Western European nations after the domestic security agency raised the terror threat level. A police statement on Saturday said that the checks will apply until Oct. 22. It cited “a challenging threat picture” and the Oct. 8 announcement

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama had frank words for Black men who may be considering sitting out the election. “Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that,” he said

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Palestinians in northern Gaza described heavy Israeli bombardment Saturday in the hours after airstrikes killed at least 22 people, as Israel warned people there and in southern Lebanon to get out of the way of offensives against the Hamas and Hezbollah militant groups. In Lebanon, the U.N. peacekeeping force said

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s leader says he plans to temporarily suspend the right to asylum as part of a new migration policy. Prime Minister Donald Tusk pointed to its alleged abuse by eastern neighbor Belarus and Russia. Tusk said Saturday that “the state must regain 100% of the control over who enters and leaves

MOSCOW (AP) — An explosion at a gas station in Russia’s southern region of Chechnya has killed at least four people. Russia’s Emergencies Ministry says the explosion of a gas tank triggered a fire at the service station in the regional capital, Grozny. Two children were among the dead and the fire on Saturday was

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Authorities say a woman was fatally shot by Oklahoma City police after firing a gun and threatening officers with it. Police Capt. Valerie Littlejohn says the woman was a suspect in an earlier shooting and crashed her vehicle at a northwest Oklahoma City intersection Thursday night. Littlejohn says seven officers went

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian military recruitment officers have raided restaurants, bars and a concert hall in Kyiv, checking military registration documents and detaining men who are not in compliance. Local media reported Saturday that officers intercepted men leaving a concert by Ukrainian rock band Okean Elzy and some were forcibly detained. It

PARIS (AP) — French anti-terror prosecutors say an Afghan national is being investigated on terrorism charges over a suspected attack plot. The 22-year-old suspect was among three people who authorities revealed earlier this week were detained in the Toulouse region. The two other people were released from custody. Authorities said an investigation opened Sept. 27

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Police in Oklahoma say a shooting at a party held at an event center left one person dead and wounded 12. Capt. Valerie Littlejohn of the Oklahoma City Police Department says a disturbance led to multiple shots being fired inside and outside the private venue in Oklahoma City around 12:30 a.m.

AP Medical Writer When a woman has a mammogram, the most important finding is whether there’s any sign of breast cancer. The second most important finding is whether her breasts are dense. Since early September, a new U.S. rule requires mammography centers to inform women about their breast density — information that isn’t entirely new

AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface. It won’t search

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani official says tribal clashes in the northwest have killed at least 11 people and injured eight, including women and children. Tensions rose in Kurram district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, after two people were critically injured Saturday in a shooting incident between rival tribes.  It wasn’t clear what caused the shooting.

Associated Press NELSONVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Voters in a ring of congressional districts encircling New York City where Republican candidates often do well but Donald Trump struggled in 2020 could decide which party controls the U.S. House for the next two years. Eleven districts within a 90-mile drive of Manhattan are expected to be among

AP Political Writers COACHELLA, Calif. (AP) — With the presidency on the line in battlegrounds like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, Donald Trump spent Saturday night in solidly liberal California, seeking to link Vice President Kamala Harris to what he described as the failures of her home state. Trump is almost certain to lose California, and that

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The artificial intelligence maker OpenAI may face a costly and inconvenient reckoning with its nonprofit origins even as its valuation recently exploded to $157 billion. Nonprofit tax experts have been closely watching OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, since last November when its board ousted and rehired CEO Sam Altman.

Associated Press Back in 2016, a scientific research organization incorporated in Delaware and based in Mountain View, California, applied to be recognized as a tax-exempt charitable organization by the Internal Revenue Service. Called OpenAI, the nonprofit told the IRS its goal was to “advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit

BEIRUT (AP) — A series of U.S. airstrikes have targeted several camps run by the Islamic State group in Syria. The U.S. military said the operation will disrupt the extremists from conducting attacks in the region and beyond. The U.S. Central Command said the airstrikes were conducted Friday without specifying in which parts of Syria.