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Homeland Security defends officers in immigrant's fatal car crash in Michigan
Federal immigration officers were a half-mile away when a man who was illegally in the U.S. crashed a car at high speed and died in Michigan last weekend, authorities said Thursday.
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California Supreme Court orders Riverside County sheriff to return 650,000 seized ballots
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Southern California sheriff who seized more than half a million ballots must return them to county election officials, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
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Italy approves limits on non-Italian speakers and veils in school classrooms
ROME (AP) — Italy’s government passed a decree Thursday to place an upper limit on the number of students in each school classroom who have only limited Italian language skills and to ban face-covering Islamic veils in schools.
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An isolated Netanyahu takes UN stage as he seeks reelection at home
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump has cooled as they disagree on how to handle the conflict with Iran. This week, during the U.N. General Assembly in New York, the two leaders didn't meet. Netanyahu has faced global criticism for Israel’s ac...
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Deaths of students at the University of Mississippi cast spotlight on kratom
A drug task force in Mississippi is urging people to avoid kratom after authorities found packages of the substance while investigating the deaths of two University of Mississippi students. Lafayette County Metro Narcotics issued the warning Tuesday, though it said it had no “confirmed informatio...
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Melania Trump hosts China's first lady for an outing watched for diplomacy and style
WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump and Peng Liyuan on Thursday toured one of the largest Asian art museums in the United States, celebrating cultural ties between the U.S. and China during a high-profile diplomatic visit to Washington.
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US cybersecurity agency releases election infrastructure plan 40 days before midterms
NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s cybersecurity agency on Thursday released an election infrastructure security plan 40 days before November’s midterms, laying out potential threats to election systems and listing services it would offer to election officials to protect the vote.
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Xi says 2 giant pandas from China will arrive in the coming days at Atlanta's zoo
Chinese President Xi Jinping says two giant pandas from China will arrive at Zoo Atlanta in the coming days. Their arrival will bolster a loan program that at one time lapsed as part of tensions between Beijing and Washington. China and the zoo had said in April that Ping Ping, a male, and Fu Shu...
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Austrian Painter horse renamed after complaint it referenced Adolf Hitler
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The Jockey Club has ruled that a racehorse known as Austrian Painter has been renamed Merrylegs after a review of a complaint that alleged it was a reference to Adolf Hitler.
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US government foots bill for television advertisement featuring Trump's midterm messaging
At first glance, it looks like a typical Republican campaign advertisement. As images of President Donald Trump flash across the screen, the 30-second spot says “America will never be a communist country” and boasts about the “largest tax cuts in history.”
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NATO chief calls for calm as intel agency warns Russia may ramp up hybrid attacks
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO is capable of handling sabotage and drone incidents in Europe and has good action plans in place to deal with them, the alliance's secretary general said Thursday as a Danish intelligence service warned Russia is expected to increase such attacks.
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Senate to vote on resolution to halt the Iran war as gas prices upend midterms
Increasingly anxious about the Iran war, senators are set to vote on a war powers resolution. Thursday's vote is the 14th time the Senate would seek to halt President Donald Trump’s military action. More Republicans are breaking with the president over the war, which has been largely blamed for t...
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8 sailors in USS Lincoln group attempted suicide on extended deployment, Navy leader says
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight sailors attempted suicide while deployed with the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group, which spent a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea supporting the Iran war, the Navy's top civilian leader said this week.
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Israel's Netanyahu says at UN that attacking Iran was 'one of the easiest decisions' he's ever made
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told world leaders that attacking Iran “was one of the easiest decisions I’ve ever had to make." He denounced as “moral cowards” a mass of delegates who walked out of the U.N. General Assembly when he took the podium to speak. When Netanyahu walked to...
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A (permanent) seat at the table of power: African leaders press UN for Security Council reform
They want to help make the decisions — not just watch them unfold.
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The Latest: Trump hails ‘truly great friendship’ with China’s Xi Jinping as summit begins
President Donald Trump hailed the “truly great friendship” he’s forged with Xi Jinping as the Chinese leader began his highly anticipated state visit. While Trump has many thorny issues to discuss with the president of America’s biggest economic rival, he focused Thursday on his long relationship...
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Energy Department will spend $2 billion to squeeze more electricity from aging power grid
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department is set to announce it will spend almost $2 billion to try to squeeze more electricity out of the nation's aging and stressed power grid, as President Donald Trump's administration steps up efforts to avoid blackouts amid skyrocketing energy demand spurred b...
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Renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia effectively shatters 2022 peace deal that ended war
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Renewed fighting between Ethiopian federal troops and Tigrayan fighters escalated Thursday, effectively shattering a peace pact that ended a devastating two-year war in 2022, as rebel forces mobilized for an armed struggle they hope will lead to the removal of the fed...
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Netanyahu arrives in New York to address the UN, and other Mideast developments
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in New York to address the United Nations General Assembly. He plans to meet with several world leaders but not U.S. President Donald Trump. Netanyahu's visit is brief due to the upcoming Jewish holiday of Sukkot, which begins Friday. Meanwhil...
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Far-right UK activist arrested after migrant dinghy slashed in the English Channel
LONDON (AP) — A far-right activist who has led protests against migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats has been arrested for allegedly slashing a dinghy in the water, police said Thursday.
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Turkey will hand over key base in Iraq in a gradual troop withdrawal deal
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey has agreed to gradually withdraw forces from a strategic military base in northern Iraq and hand over its control to the Iraqi government, following a meeting between the two countries’ leaders on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
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Scottsdale's water recycling program hits election-year backlash
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — A Phoenix suburb ditched a plan to send recycled water from toilets and other sources directly to residents' taps, after political candidates made unproven claims that the water is contaminated “poop water.”
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CNN, MS NOW and Politico back at the White House after judge ordered Trump to lift ban
Reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico returned to the White House hours after a federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s ban of the three news outlets. The judge said early Thursday that the news outlets must have their access restored. But reporters from all three outlets sai...
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Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party leads in provisional election results
CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party won the largest number of seats in the country’s parliamentary election, according to provisional results announced by the Interior Ministry early Thursday.
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Senators question FDA nominee Overton about her views on the abortion pill and vaccines
President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Food and Drug Administration is facing questions from Senate lawmakers considering her nomination. Thursday’s hearing is expected to focus on Dr. Heidi Overton’s views on vaccines and abortion drugs. Both have come under new scrutiny at the FDA under Trump...
