Former businessman Christopher Luxon wins New Zealand election as voters seek conservative change (apnews.com)
Kaiser Permanente reaches a tentative deal with health care worker unions after a recent strike (apnews.com)
Unions representing 85,000 health care workers have reached a tentative agreement with industry giant Kaiser Permanente following a strike over wages and staffing levels, the parties announced Friday....
A Chinese Australian journalist detained for 3 years in China returns to Australia (apnews.com)
Biden interviewed as part of special counsel investigation into handling of classified documents (apnews.com)
Car rams into Chinese consulate in San Francisco and police fatally shoot driver, officers say (apnews.com)
Nobel economics prize goes to professor for advancing the understanding of the workplace gender gap (apnews.com)
The Nobel economics prize was awarded Monday to Claudia Goldin, a professor at Harvard University, for research that has advanced the understanding of the gender gap in the labor market....
US expels two Russian diplomats to retaliate for the expulsion of two American diplomats from Moscow (apnews.com)
The Biden administration on Friday ordered two Russian diplomats expelled from the United States in retaliation for the expulsion of two U.S. diplomats from Moscow last month....
Largest Hindu temple outside India in the modern era opens in New Jersey (apnews.com)
If stones could talk, sing and tell stories, Yogi Trivedi believes the marble and limestone that adorn the spires, pillars and archways of the stunning Hindu temple in central New Jersey would compose a paean to the divine....
Russia has tested a nuclear-powered missile and could revoke a global atomic test ban, Putin says (apnews.com)
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Further evidence points to footprints in New Mexico being the oldest sign of humans in Americas (apnews.com)
New research confirms that fossil human footprints in New Mexico are likely the oldest direct evidence of human presence in the Americas, a finding that upends what many archaeologists thought they knew about when our ancestors arrived in the New World....
September sizzled to records and was so much warmer than average scientists call it 'mind-blowing' (apnews.com)
US shoots down Turkish drone after it came too close to US troops in Syria (apnews.com)
The U.S. military on Thursday shot down a Turkish drone that had come in too close to U.S. troops on the ground in Hasakah, Syria, two U.S. officials told The Associated Press. One official said the drone was armed....
Massachusetts shooting claims life of baby delivered after mother was one of several hit by gunfire (apnews.com)
A shooting claimed the life of a baby that was delivered after its mother was one of several people hit by gunfire during a fight Wednesday on a downtown street in the western Massachusetts city of Holyoke, authorities said....
Indian police arrest editor, administrator of independent news site after conducting raids (apnews.com)
Police in New Delhi have arrested the editor of a news website and one of its administrators after raiding the homes of journalists working for the site, which has been critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist-led government....
A deal to expedite grain exports has been reached between Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania (apnews.com)
Europe Union's top diplomat dismisses concern about bloc's long-term support for Ukraine (apnews.com)
A fight over precious groundwater in a rural California town is rooted in carrots (apnews.com)
In the hills of a dry, remote patch of California farm country, Lee Harrington carefully monitors the drips moistening his pistachio trees to ensure they’re not wasting any of the groundwater at the heart of a vicious fight....
Video provides first clear views of WWII aircraft carriers lost in the pivotal Battle of Midway (apnews.com)
Afghan embassy says it is stopping operations in Indian capital (apnews.com)
NATO's secretary-general meets with Zelenskyy to discuss battlefield and ammunition needs in Ukraine (apnews.com)
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss the status of the war and needs of troops on Thursday, the day after Russia accused Ukraine’s Western allies of helping plan and conduct last week’s missile strike on the Black Sea Fleet’s headquarters on the annexed Crimean...
The Biden administration is expected to keep cap on refugees admitted to the US at 125,000 (apnews.com)
The Biden administration is expected to keep the cap on refugees admitted to the country at 125,000 for the next fiscal year, which begins Sunday....
Vatican presses world leaders at UN to work on rules for lethal autonomous weapons (apnews.com)
India and Canada steer clear, in UN speeches, of their dispute over Sikh separatist leader's killing (apnews.com)
Brazilian President Lula to undergo hip surgery, will work from home for 3 weeks (apnews.com)
RNC's livestreaming partner for the GOP debate is a haven for disinformation and extremism (apnews.com)
The second Republican presidential debate will be broadcast Wednesday on Fox Business Network and Univision, but the exclusive online livestream will take place on Rumble, an alternative video-sharing platform that has been criticized for allowing— and at times promoting — far-right extremism, bigotry, election...
