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Evacuees reunite with family at the Ukrainian-Belarusian border after fleeing Oleshky
CHERNIHIV REGION, Ukraine (AP) - Evacuees from Russian-occupied Oleshky crossed into Ukrainian-held territory Saturday in a major rescue operation carried out under the most significant truce since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine 4 1/2 years ag...
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Shooting leaves 1 dead and 6 wounded at Solano Town Center in Fairfield, California police say
A shooting on Friday night at a mall in Fairfield has left one person dead and six wounded, California police said. Police said they responded to a shooting at around 8:30 p.m. inside Solano Town Center at the Spirit Halloween store. The...
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Justice Department seeks to isolate Alaska ballots as criminal probe underway over Senate candidate
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The U.S. Department of Justice pushed Friday for a court order to isolate certain Alaska ballots to investigate potential voter confusion, while federal officials confirmed the existence of a criminal probe over a Senate candid...
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Appeals court rejects Justice Department request for California to set aside disputed ballots
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Justice Department's request for California to set aside disputed ballots received in the midterm election, and hours later another federal judge barred the department from intimidating ...
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An ICE officer is charged with assault for striking a man with a car in Houston
HOUSTON (AP) - A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer accused of intentionally ramming his car into a Mexican construction worker in Houston was indicted by a grand jury Friday on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, prosecu...
Oct 30, 2026
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Trump will rally in Iowa and Kansas after initially canceling weekend trips before midterms
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump has rescheduled weekend campaign rallies in a pair of critical Midwestern states that he had previously canceled, according to a person familiar with the plans. The Republican president will now vi...
Oct 30, 2026
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Deep rifts among G20 diplomats, including from China and Russia, prompt US to ditch group photo plan
ATLANTA (AP) - The top diplomats from the Group of 20 largest world economies, including envoys from Russia and China, are meeting in Atlanta as they face deep rifts over multiple wars and other global crises that threaten international security and tr...
Oct 30, 2026
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Christa Pike describes constant pain in first statement since her failed execution
Christa Pike said Friday she remains in constant pain, struggles to speak and has been largely isolated in a prison hospital after surviving a lethal injection in Tennessee last month. In her first public statement since, Pike said she's ...
Oct 30, 2026
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Early voting jumps across Senate battlegrounds as millions more Americans vote ahead of Election Day
WASHINGTON (AP) - Early voting is significantly outpacing the last midterm election, with millions more Americans casting ballots in advance and particularly sharp increases in states hosting competitive Senate races, according to an Associated Press a...
Oct 30, 2026
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Pope Leo XIV has become the first pope in history to vote in a US general election
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Leo XIV has become the first pope to vote in a U.S. general election, casting a mail-in ballot in a contest that will decide America's future as the Trump era slowly comes to an end. The Vatican confirmed Friday t...
Oct 30, 2026
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Evacuated Oleshky residents begin the long journey out of the war-ravaged region
KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) - Evacuees from Russian-occupied Oleshky began the long journey out of the war-ravaged region in bus convoys Friday, on the fourth day of the most significant truce since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine 4 1/2 years ago. ...
Oct 30, 2026
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El-Sayed and Stevens to make rare joint appearance as Democrats seek unity in Michigan Senate race
DETROIT (AP) - Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed will campaign Sunday in Detroit alongside former primary rival Rep. Haley Stevens, marking their first public appearance together in months after a week in which lingering divisions spi...
Oct 29, 2026
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Australian court orders Erin Patterson never to be released from prison for mushroom poisonings
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - An Australian appeals court on Friday ordered triple-murderer Erin Patterson to never be released from prison because of the "shocking criminality" involved in poisoning four of her estranged husband's relatives with death c...
Oct 29, 2026
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Justice Department subpoenas California officials in escalation of its scrutiny of local elections
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The U.S. Justice Department has issued subpoenas to California officials in an escalation of its scrutiny of local election administration. The Associated Press obtained copies of three subpoenas sent Oct. 21 and Oct. 2...
Oct 29, 2026
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Peltola denies knowing about Alaska spoiler candidate as Justice Department escalates investigation
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola denied Thursday that she knew anything about an effort to put another candidate on the Alaska ballot with the same name as the Republican incumbent as the Justice Department escalated a cri...
Oct 29, 2026
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Virginia GOP says shooting outside its offices in Richmond appears unrelated to its operations
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Republican Party of Virginia said a shooting Thursday just outside its offices in Richmond doesn't appear to have anything to do with its operations. The party said in a statement posted online that a woman was sh...
Oct 29, 2026
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Man pleads guilty to federal hate crimes in deadly firebomb attack on Colorado demonstrators
DENVER (AP) - An Egyptian man faces an additional life sentence after pleading guilty Thursday to federal hate crime and other charges for a deadly firebombing attack on demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, last year. Mohamed Soliman is al...
Oct 29, 2026
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Aid mission set to enter Oleshky as a localized Russia-Ukraine truce holds for a third day
KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) - Humanitarian aid is poised to roll into the stricken city of Oleshky, negotiators said Thursday, as a localized ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine stretched into a third day and military units cleared landmines. ...
Oct 29, 2026
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North Korea fires missile barrage toward the sea as tensions with South rise
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea launched a barrage of ballistic missiles toward the sea Thursday, South Korea's military said, days after the North threatened to resume front-line propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts and deploy new weapons along the...
Oct 28, 2026
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Milwaukee's William Contreras wins World Series MVP with .381 average, 10 ABS overturns
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - William Contreras became the eighth catcher voted the World Series MVP after lifting the Milwaukee Brewers to their first World Series championship. The heart and soul of the small-market Brewers, Contreras bat...
Oct 28, 2026
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Brewers beat the Rays 4-1 in Game 5 to win the first World Series title in franchise history
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - The small-ball Milwaukee Brewers playing in the smallest market in the majors are World Series champions for the first time. Hey, Milwaukee: grab a brat, raise a beer and prepare for that parade. ...
Oct 28, 2026
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Judge denies federal request to segregate California ballots, says it would 'wreak havoc' on voting
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal judge rejected on Wednesday a Trump administration request to stop California from processing the ballots of up to 20,000 people over allegations they are likely noncitizens, warning it would "wreak havoc" on the midterm el...
Oct 28, 2026
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Dolores Huerta, influential labor leader, feminist and civil rights icon, dies at 96
Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union to improve working conditions in the nation's fruit and vegetable fields and coined the enduring "Sí, se puede!" rallying cry, has died. She was 96. Huerta died of cancer Wedne...
Oct 28, 2026
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UN condemns US economic embargo of Cuba though more nations sit out after Trump administration push
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. General Assembly condemned the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba for the 34th year on Wednesday, even as Washington's campaign to influence the outcome led to a number of countries voting against the resolution or sitting out...
Oct 28, 2026
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At least 30 dead and 80 injured in high-speed train crash in central Spain
URDA, Spain (AP) - A high-speed train slammed into the rear of another train that had stopped, derailing two cars and killing at least 30 people on Wednesday in central Spain, authorities said. The regional president of Castilla La Mancha...
Oct 28, 2026
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Serbian police say assailant killed after attacking officer outside the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - An assailant with knives attacked a police officer from an elite unit guarding the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade just after midnight on Wednesday, police said. The officer responded by fatally shooting the attacker. ...
Oct 27, 2026
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Rays stun Brewers with 2-run rally in 12th inning and force World Series Game 5 with 4-3 win
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Milwaukee was three outs from its first World Series title when Junior Caminero started the bottom of the 12th inning with a grounder to third. Thousands of Brewers fans who trekked to Tropicana Field to witness the long-awa...
Oct 27, 2026
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Grand jury refuses to indict ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, AP sources say
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department on Tuesday failed to secure a grand jury indictment against a former White House staffer who provided dramatic but disputed testimony against President Donald Trump before a House committee investigating the Jan...
Oct 27, 2026
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