Manager of a key Nevada swing county goes on medical leave ahead of election
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The manager of a key swing county in northern Nevada is out on medical leave, a departure announced just days before the…
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Takeaways from AP’s reporting on challenges to voting in Alaska Native villages
Associated Press KAKTOVIK, Alaska (AP) — The right to vote is considered sacrosanct in the U.S., but it isn’t always so in the tiny, remote…
Continue Reading Funeral home owner jailed after 18 bodies found in various stages of decomposition, authorities say
DOUGLAS, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a funeral home owner in south Georgia has been arrested and accused of neglecting human corpses after 18 bodies…
Continue Reading ‘Not an act of God.’ How the Rev. Richard Joyner became a farmer, then a climate activist
Religion News Service CONETOE, N.C. (RNS) — Congregants at Conetoe Chapel Missionary Baptist Church thought their pastor was crazy when he…
Continue Reading Ship owner in Baltimore bridge collapse seeks to blame others as liability case takes shape
Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The owner and manager of the container ship Dali are seeking to minimize their responsibility for the deadly…
Continue Reading A hotel collapses in Argentina and leaves 1 dead and several trapped
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities say a 10-story hotel under renovation in Argentina has collapsed, leaving one person dead and at least seven trapped…
Continue Reading Man who threatened Fani Willis and sheriff over Trump investigation gets nearly 2 years in prison
Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — An Alabama man who left threatening phone messages for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and the county…
Continue Reading Crossing against the light? You won’t get ticketed now that jaywalking is legal in NYC
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jaywalking — that time-honored practice of crossing the street outside of the crosswalk or against the traffic…
Continue Reading China’s new crew has arrived at space station in sign of growing influence in space field
Associated Press JIUQUAN, China (AP) — A Chinese space ship carrying a three-person crew docked with its orbiting space station Tuesday as the…
Continue Reading Family releases video showing final moments before Black man’s death in Missouri prison
Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man who died after he was placed in a spit hood and restrained in a Missouri prison was motionless…
Continue Reading Owner of NYC day care where toddler fatally ingested fentanyl pleads guilty to federal charges
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who owned a New York City day care center where a toddler died after ingesting fentanyl has pleaded guilty to federal drug…
Continue Reading Au pair charged in double homicide pleads guilty to manslaughter
Associated Press/Report for America FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A judge in Virginia has accepted a guilty plea in what prosecutors say was an elaborate…
Continue Reading Francis Ford Coppola to receive AFI lifetime achievement award
NEW YORK (AP) — Francis Ford Coppola will receive the 50th AFI Life Achievement Award, the American Film Institute announced Tuesday. Coppola, who…
Continue Reading In a first since 1938, Des Moines, Iowa, kids will trick-or-treat on Halloween
Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — For the first time since 1938, children in Des Moines, Iowa, will go trick-or-treating on Halloween. Going…
Continue Reading The Associated Press’ role in calling races and polling voters
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of news organizations, readers, listeners and viewers will look to the The Associated Press Decision…
Continue Reading UN chief calls for more pledges, private sector input to save global biodiversity at Colombia summit
Associated Press CALI, Colombia (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged delegates at a major biodiversity summit to follow through on…
Continue Reading Hundreds of Pennsylvania voters are challenged based on postal service’s change-of-address database
Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Counties in Philadelphia’s suburbs are being asked to reject the mail-in ballot applications of hundreds…
Continue Reading US chooses winning bids in first commercial sale for floating offshore Atlantic wind
Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. government has chosen winning bids to develop wind power off New England in the first commercial…
Continue Reading Trump’s social media company is now worth more than Musk’s X after recent surge in stock price
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s Truth Social is now worth more than Elon Musk’s X. That’s thanks to a recent run-up in…
Continue Reading Israel’s move to ban a UN agency raises alarm about aid to Gaza even as the implications are unclear
Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli legislation cutting ties with the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees has raised fears that the largest…
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