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Russian foreign minister lambastes the West but barely mentions Ukraine in UN speech

United Nations (AP) — Russia's top diplomat denounced the United States and the West on Saturday as self-interested defenders of a fading international order, but he didn't discuss his country's war in Ukraine in his speech to the U.N.

Sep 23, 2023 10:18 AM Read more >

A Black student’s family sues Texas officials over his suspension for his hairstyle

HOUSTON (AP) — The family of a Black high school student in Texas on Saturday filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state's governor and attorney general over his ongoing suspension by his school district for his hairstyle .

Sep 23, 2023 9:32 AM Read more >

Tropical Storm Ophelia moves inland over North Carolina as coastal areas lashed with wind and rain

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Tropical Storm Ophelia swirled across North Carolina after making landfall near Emerald Isle early Saturday, lashing eastern parts of the state with rain, damaging winds and dangerous surges of water.

Sep 23, 2023 5:53 AM Read more >

Netanyahu tells UN that Israel is 'at the cusp' of a historic agreement with Saudi Arabia

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the U.N.

Sep 22, 2023 3:54 PM Read more >

Gold bars, cash-stuffed envelopes: New indictment of Sen. Menendez alleges vast corruption

NEW YORK (AP) — Powerful Sen.

Sep 22, 2023 3:44 PM Read more >

A Ukrainian missile strikes the headquarters of Russia's navy in Crimea

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine struck the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in a missile attack Friday that left a serviceman missing and the main building smoldering, according to military officials on both sides of the war and images from the

Sep 22, 2023 12:47 PM Read more >

Pope decries indifference toward migrants, as he prays for the dead in the French port of Marseille

MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Pope Francis blasted the “fanaticism of indifference” that greets migrants seeking a better life in Europe, as he arrived Friday in the Mediterranean port of Marseille amid a new influx of would-be refugees from Africa that h

Sep 22, 2023 12:15 PM Read more >

Tropical Storm Ophelia forms off the US mid-Atlantic coast, expected to bring heavy rain and wind

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below. ANNAPOLIS, Md.

Sep 22, 2023 11:42 AM Read more >

A 9/11 defendant is ruled unfit for trial after a medical panel finds torture left him psychotic

WASHINGTON (AP) — A military judge at Guantanamo Bay has ruled one of the 9/11 defendants unfit for trial after a military medical panel found that the man's sustained abuse in CIA custody years earlier has rendered him lastingly psychotic.

Sep 22, 2023 11:14 AM Read more >

'I don't know when we'll go': Travel plans upended amid fraying Canada-India ties

MONTREAL — Until this week, Sukhwinder Dhillon was set on making his first trip back to India in years sometime in the next few months. “My father passed, and my brother passed,” said the 56-year-old Montrealer. “I want to go now.

Sep 21, 2023 7:36 PM Read more >