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Fetterman, in debate with Oz, vows to 'keep coming back up'

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman acknowledged health challenges knocked him down but vowed to "keep coming back up" in the opening moments of his debate against Republican M...

Oct 25, 2022

LA police investigating if racist recording taped illegally

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles detectives are investigating whether a recording last year that captured city councilmembers' racist remarks was made illegally, the police chief said Tuesday. Disclosur...

Oct 25, 2022

Italy's Meloni easily wins confidence vote in parliament

ROME (AP) - Italy's new far-right-led government of Giorgia Meloni has won the first of two required confidence votes in Parliament by a comfortable margin. The vote in the lower Chamber of Deputies T...

Oct 25, 2022

Baryshnikov honors 'insanely brave' Putin opponent Navalny

NEW YORK (AP) - Ballet dancer, choreographer and actor Mikhail Baryshnikov, who famously defected from the Soviet Union nearly a half-century ago, called Alexei Navalny "insanely brave" as a human rig...

Oct 25, 2022

School gunman had AR-15-style weapon, 600 rounds of ammo

ST. LOUIS (AP) - The 19-year-old gunman who killed a teacher and a 15-year-old girl at a St. Louis high school was armed with an AR-15-style rifle and what appeared to be more than 600 rounds of ammun...

Oct 25, 2022

Ash Carter, defense chief who opened jobs to women, dies

WASHINGTON (AP) - Ash Carter, who served as secretary of defense in the final two years of the Obama administration and opened military jobs to women and ended a ban on transgender people serving in t...

Oct 25, 2022

South Africa says Ethiopia peace talks have begun on Tigray

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Peace talks to end Ethiopia's Tigray conflict have begun in South Africa, a South African government spokesman said Tuesday. It is the highest-level effort yet to end...

Oct 25, 2022

Uganda: Fire at boarding school for the blind kills 11

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - A fire at a boarding school for blind students killed 11 people, including children, in a rural community just outside Uganda's capital, Kampala, police said Tuesday. Police sai...

Oct 25, 2022

Rishi Sunak becomes British prime minister

LONDON (AP) - Rishi Sunak has become British prime minister after being asked to form a government by King Charles III. Sunak met at Buckingham Palace with the king, who had just accepted the resignat...

Oct 25, 2022

Russian court hears appeal by Griner against 9-year sentence

MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian court on Tuesday started hearing American basketball star Brittney Griner's appeal against her nine-year prison sentence for drug possession. Griner, an eight-time all-star cen...

Oct 25, 2022