Emotional outburst on live TV from Gaza over death of reporter encapsulates collective grief | AP News (apnews.com)
Alabama man charged with making threats against Georgia prosecutor, sheriff over Trump election case (apnews.com)
An Alabama man has been indicted on federal charges that he threatened violence against a Georgia prosecutor and sheriff related to an investigation into former President Donald Trump....
Health providers say AI chatbots could improve care. But research says some are perpetuating racism (apnews.com)
Home sales fell again in September as surging mortgage rates, rising prices discouraged homebuyers (apnews.com)
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes in September fell for the fourth month in a row, grinding to their slowest pace in more than a decade as prospective homebuyers grapple with surging mortgage rates and a near historic-low level of properties on the market.
France has banned pro-Palestinian protests and vowed to protect Jews from resurgent antisemitism (apnews.com)
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Major US pharmacy chain Rite Aid files for bankruptcy (apnews.com)
Major U.S. pharmacy chain Rite Aid said Sunday that it has filed for bankruptcy and obtained $3.45 billion in fresh financing as it carries out a restructuring plan while coping with falling sales and opioid-related lawsuits....
France is deploying 7,000 troops after a deadly school stabbing by a suspected Islamic radical (apnews.com)
France will mobilize up to 7,000 soldiers to increase security around the country after a teacher was fatally stabbed and three other people wounded in a school attack by a former student suspected of Islamic radicalization, the president’s office said Saturday....
Republicans pick Jim Jordan as nominee for House speaker, putting job within the Trump ally's reach (apnews.com)
Hezbollah bombards Israeli positions in disputed area along border with Syria’s Golan Heights (apnews.com)
Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group fired dozens of rockets and shells on Sunday at three Israeli positions in a disputed area along the country’s border with Syria’s Israeli-occupied Golan Heights....
An American tourist is arrested for smashing ancient Roman statues at a museum in Israel (apnews.com)
Thousands of US workers are on strike today. Here's a rundown of major work stoppages happening now (apnews.com)
It’s been a big year for labor organizing in the U.S. And from auto production lines to Hollywood, all eyes are on strikes taking the world of work by storm....
Witness to the 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur indicted on murder charge in rapper’s death (apnews.com)
Apple exec defends the decision to make Google its default search engine on iPhones and Macs (apnews.com)
Biden finds a new friend in Vietnam as American CEOs look for alternatives to Chinese factories (apnews.com)
President Joe Biden on Sunday opened a visit to a Vietnam that wants to dramatically ramp up trade with the United States, a sign of how competition with China is reshaping relationships across Asia....
Modi says India's economy will be among the top three in the world within five years (apnews.com)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India’s economy will be among the top three in the world within five years, as he marked 76 years of independence from British rule on Tuesday.
Death toll from Maui wildfire reaches 89, making it the deadliest in the US in more than 100 years (apnews.com)
Russia blasts Saudi Arabia talks on ending war in Ukraine after Moscow gets no invitation to attend (apnews.com)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Monday chided efforts by international officials meeting in Saudi Arabia to find a peaceful settlement for the war in Ukraine, saying the talks don’t have “the slightest added value” because Moscow — unlike Kyiv — wasn’t invited.
Brazilian president's former lawyer takes seat as Supreme Court justice (apnews.com)
He helped Lula overturn a graft conviction stemming from Brazil’s sprawling “Car Wash” corruption investigation, getting him freed after 580 days of incarceration. The Supreme Court annulled all convictions of Lula, and ruled in 2021 that the judge overseeing the case had been biased. That allowed Lula to run successfuly...
Thermo Fisher Scientific settles with family of Henrietta Lacks, whose HeLa cells uphold medicine (apnews.com)
More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a settlement with a biotechnology company they sued in 2021, accusing its leaders of reaping billions of dollars from a racist medical system.
'Original sin': Torture of 9/11 suspects means even without plea deal, they may never face a verdict (apnews.com)
A Defense Department disagreement over how to bring to justice the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and two others has thrown the cases into disarray and surfaced tension between the desire of some victims’ families to see a final legal reckoning and the significant obstacles that may make that impossible....
Turkey to submit request to join genocide case against Israel in UN court (apnews.com)
Turkey will file a request with a United Nations court on Wednesday to join South Africa’s genocide lawsuit against Israel, a Turkish official said....
India and China agree to work urgently to achieve the withdrawal of troops on their disputed border (apnews.com)
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Commission says New York judge should be removed over profane rant at graduation party (apnews.com)
A New York state judge who engaged in a prolonged, offensive rant after a melee erupted at a high school graduation party should be removed from office, a judicial watchdog panel ruled....
For India's garbage pickers, a miserable and dangerous job made worse by extreme heat (apnews.com)
The putrid smell of burning garbage wafts for miles from the landfill on the outskirts of Jammu in a potentially toxic miasma fed by the plastics, industrial, medical and other waste generated by a city of some 740,000 people. But a handful of waste pickers ignore both the fumes and suffocating heat to sort through the rubbish,...
Ultra-Orthodox Jews block highway to protest Israel’s new mandatory military service ruling (apnews.com)
BNEI BRAK, Israel (AP) — Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men blocked a major highway in central Israel for two hours on Thursday to protest a recent Supreme Court decision ordering young religious men to enlist for military service....
