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Language barriers and lack of money is a matter of life and death with Milton approaching Florida

MIAMI (AP) - Hurricane Milton is expected to unleash its greatest force over hundreds of thousands of immigrants who don't speak English, most of them Latin Americans harvesting oranges and tomatoes i...

Oct 09, 2024

Biden and Netanyahu hold their first conversation in weeks. Trump recently called the Israeli leader

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday were holding their first call in weeks, a conversation that comes as Israel expands its ground incursio...

Oct 09, 2024

Former Sen. Tim Johnson, the last Democrat to hold statewide office in South Dakota, dies at 77

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Former Sen. Tim Johnson, a centrist who was the last Democrat to hold statewide office in South Dakota and who was adept at securing federal funding for projects back home dur...

Oct 09, 2024

Time to evacuate is running out as Hurricane Milton closes in on Florida

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The National Weather Service says a tornado is on the ground in the lightly populated Everglades area of South Florida. The service posted a photo on the social platform X of the fu...

Oct 09, 2024

The death toll in a gang attack on a small Haitian town rises to 115, a local official says

PONT-SOND, Haiti (AP) - The death toll in a brutal gang attack last week on a small town in central Haiti has risen to 115, a local official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The attack on resid...

Oct 09, 2024

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for work on proteins

STOCKHOLM (AP) - The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their work with proteins. Baker works at the University of Washington in Seattle,...

Oct 09, 2024

Gaza Health Ministry says Palestinian death toll from Israel-Hamas war has passed 42,000

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Gaza's Health Ministry says the Palestinian death toll from the war in Gaza has passed 42,000. The ministry does not differentiate between fighters and civilians in it...

Oct 09, 2024

Ishiba dissolves Japan's lower house to set up an Oct. 27 parliamentary election

TOKYO (AP) - Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba dissolved Japan's lower house of parliament Wednesday to set up an Oct. 27 early election and seek the voters' mandate for his 9-day-old government. Ishiba t...

Oct 09, 2024

Mozambique votes for president and the ruling party could extend its 49 years in power

MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) - Mozambique is voting for a new president on Wednesday in an election that is expected to extend the ruling party's 49 years in power since the southern African nation gained ...

Oct 08, 2024

Grazer beats the behemoth that killed her cub to win Alaska's Fat Bear Contest

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - In a storyline better befitting a melodrama than a popularity vote, Grazer won her second Fat Bear Contest Tuesday by defeating the male behemoth that killed her cub this summ...

Oct 08, 2024