West Virginia University crisis looms as GOP leaders focus on economic development, jobs (apnews.com)
On the same day that dejected students pleaded with the board of West Virginia’s flagship university not to eliminate its entire foreign languages department and dozens of other programs, Gov. Jim Justice said he was feeling hopeful about the future of education in the state....
Fall back: How daylight saving time can seriously affect your health (apnews.com)
A Texas neighborhood became a target of the right over immigration. Locals are pushing back (apnews.com)
Mario Carranza put a mobile home on a $28,000 lot in Colony Ridge, one of the biggest neighborhoods in Texas, lured by cheap land and the chance for his family to escape the crime he says was rampant around their apartment in nearby Houston....
As Israel pushes punitive demolitions, family of 13-year-old Palestinian attacker to lose its home (apnews.com)
Earlier this year, 13-year-old Mohammed Zalabani boarded a bus at an Israeli army checkpoint in the Shuafat refugee camp and lunged at an Israeli police officer with a kitchen knife.
Chinese-backed port project in Peru to be the 'gateway from South America to Asia,' official says (apnews.com)
Dozens of cranes lift blocks weighing several tons and drop them to compact the soil of a roughly one-square-mile area on Peru’s Pacific coast, part of China’s most ambitious port project in Latin America designed to facilitate trade between the regions....
Maine gunman may have targeted businesses over delusions they were disparaging him online (apnews.com)
Maine State Police documents released Tuesday shed light on why a delusional U.S. Army reservist who killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston may have targeted those locations....
Iran's foreign minister warns Israel from Beirut it could suffer 'a huge earthquake' (apnews.com)
Iran’s foreign minister on Saturday called on Israel to stop its attacks on Gaza, warning that the war might expand to other parts of the Middle East if Hezbollah joins the battle, and that would make Israel suffer “a huge earthquake.”...
Lawsuit alleges famous child-trafficking opponent sexually abused women who posed as his wife (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....
September sizzled to records and was so much warmer than average scientists call it 'mind-blowing' (apnews.com)
Google's dominance of internet search faces major challenge in legal showdown with U.S. regulators (apnews.com)
The U.S. government is taking aim at what has been an indomitable empire: Google’s ubiquitous search engine that has become the internet’s main gateway....
Dentist accused of killing wife by poisoning her protein shakes set to enter a plea to charges (apnews.com)
A Colorado dentist accused of killing his wife by lacing her protein shakes with poison is set to enter a plea in court to a first-degree murder charge on Tuesday....
Clashes over Israel-Hamas war shatter students' sense of safety on US college campuses (apnews.com)
As a Jewish student, Eden Roth always has felt safe and welcome at Tulane University, where more than 40% of the students are Jewish. That has been tested by the aftermath of last month’s Hamas incursion into Israel....
Gaza carnage spreads anger across Mideast, alarming US allies and threatening to widen conflict (apnews.com)
Within hours after a blast was said to have killed hundreds at a Gaza hospital, protesters hurled stones at Palestinian security forces in the occupied West Bank and at riot police in neighboring Jordan.
A $1.4 million speeding ticket surprised a Georgia man before officials clarified the situation (apnews.com)
Palestinians scramble to flee south in Gaza as Israel urges a mass evacuation and conducts raids (apnews.com)
Gunfire at a California biker bar kills 4 people, including the shooter, and wounds 5 more (apnews.com)
Three people were killed and five others were wounded in a shooting Wednesday at a Southern California biker bar, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said. The gunman was also killed by deputies....
New Speaker Mike Johnson grasps for a funding plan with a government shutdown rapidly approaching (apnews.com)
With just a week left to avert a government shutdown, new House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing his first big test as he tries to win House Republican support for a short-term funding plan — a task that looks increasingly difficult amid stubborn divisions in the party over federal spending....
UAW and Stellantis reach tentative contract deal as union adds strike at Tennessee GM factory (apnews.com)
Jeep maker Stellantis reached a tentative contract agreement with the United Auto Workers union on Saturday as it escalated strikes against General Motors by adding a plant in Tennessee....
Thousands loot UN aid warehouses in Gaza as desperation grows and Israel widens ground offensive (apnews.com)
A U.N. agency says thousands of people have broken into aid warehouses in Gaza to take flour and basic hygiene products. It's a sign of growing desperation and the breakdown of public order three weeks into the war between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers.
Goodbye to more DVDs? Best Buy plans to phase out sales of physical movies in the coming months (apnews.com)
Best Buy is saying goodbye to movie-watching with physical discs....
Uranium enrichment starting at federally supported demonstration project in Ohio (apnews.com)
Uranium enrichment is getting underway this week at a facility in southern Ohio, a federally authorized demonstration project considered critical to produce the type of fuel needed for newer, more efficient nuclear reactors....