Category Archives: World
Legal fight over Mississippi counting mail ballots after Election Day is revived
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A federal appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit that challenges Mississippi's practice of counting mailed absentee ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but received up...
Oct 25, 2024
Trump visits Texas to tape Joe Rogan's podcast and to criticize Harris on immigration
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Donald Trump headed to Texas on Friday to talk about border security, a trip that comes as the former president escalates his already dark and apocalyptic rhetoric against illegal...
Oct 25, 2024
A mutt known as 'Houdini' for his ability to elude capture is finally off the streets
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Dubbed on social media as the "Houdini" of New Orleans' Mid-City neighborhood, Scrim - a scruffy, mixed-breed dog that was on the lam for more than six months after escaping his yar...
Oct 25, 2024
Biden visits Native Country and apologizes for the 'sin' of a 150-year-old boarding school policy
LAVEEN VILLAGE, Ariz. (AP) - President Joe Biden on Friday formally apologized to Native Americans for the "sin" of a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated Indian c...
Oct 25, 2024
Putin ends BRICS summit that sought to expand Russia's global clout but was shadowed by Ukraine
KAZAN, Russia (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin closed a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies on Thursday, praising its role as a counterbalance to what he called the West's "pervers...
Oct 25, 2024
Criminals may be leveraging climate change as record acreage burns in Brazil's Amazon
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Wildfires in Brazil have swept through an area the size of Switzerland, a level of destruction that will take decades to recover, if it ever does, according to a new satellite ...
Oct 25, 2024
4 astronauts return to Earth after being delayed by Boeing's capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Four astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after a nearly eight-month space station stay extended by Boeing's capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton. A SpaceX capsule carryi...
Oct 25, 2024
Death toll from deadly storm that struck the Philippines rises to 65
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A Philippine provincial police chief said Friday that 33 people were killed mostly in landslides set off by Tropical Storm Trami in a province south of Manila. The deaths ca...
Oct 25, 2024
4 astronauts return to Earth after being delayed by Boeing's capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Four astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after a nearly eight-month space station stay extended by Boeing's capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton. A SpaceX capsule carryi...
Oct 25, 2024
An Israeli airstrike on a journalist compound kills 3 TV staffers, state news says
BEIRUT (AP) - An Israeli airstrike on a compound housing journalists in southeast Lebanon has killed three media staffers, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said Friday. The Beirut-based pan-Ar...
Oct 24, 2024
