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Strike on Iranian cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz kills 1, Iranian media say
CAIRO (AP) - An Iranian cargo vessel was struck early Sunday off Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media said, and a plan by Tehran to brief neighboring countries on its contested efforts to manage shipping in the strait was postponed...
Sep 13, 2026
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Search underway for about 130 people missing after Indonesian passenger ship overturns
BANJARMASIN, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesian rescuers say about 130 passengers and crew are missing after a ferry carrying more than 240 people sank in bad weather in the Java Sea on Sunday. At least 107 people were rescued and the bodies of six passengers...
Sep 13, 2026
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Elena Rybakina beats Aryna Sabalenka to win the US Open title and punctuate her rise to No. 1
NEW YORK (AP) - Elena Rybakina won her first U.S. Open title and punctuated her climb to the top of women's tennis by beating Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 on Saturday. Rybakina had already been guaranteed to replace Sabalenka at No. 1 in...
Sep 12, 2026
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North Korea fires ballistic missiles toward sea after rivals' military drill it sees as provocation
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea launched multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Saturday, its neighbors said, a day after the U.S., South Korea and Japan ended their trilateral military drill that North Korea views as a provoca...
Sep 11, 2026
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Mississippi police arrest a man in the death of Tasia Fortune
Mississippi police have arrested a man in the death of Tasia Fortune, a Black woman found hanging from a tree last month. Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney said at a news conference Friday that police had secured search and arrest wa...
Sep 11, 2026
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UK lawmakers vote down bill to allow assisted dying in England and Wales
LONDON (AP) - U.K. lawmakers on Friday voted down legislation to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives. Following an impassioned four-hour debate in the elected House of Commons, the Terminally Ill ...
Sep 11, 2026
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Yemen's Houthis capture a Red Sea island in a threat to shipping, and other Mideast developments
Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen seized a key island Friday after capturing a Red Sea port, moves that threatened to further disrupt international shipping in the region. And Saudi Arabia said it shut down a major oil pipeline as a precaution afte...
Sep 11, 2026
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Trump commemorates the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at the Pentagon
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump observed Friday's 25th anniversary by speaking about the Sept. 11 attacks at a ceremony at the Pentagon commemorating the lives lost when al-Qaida militants hijacked planes and killed nearly 3,000 people in thre...
Sep 11, 2026
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US marks 25 years since the Sept. 11 attacks
NEW YORK (AP) - Americans commemorated the 25th anniversary of 9/11 on Friday, remembering the shock, the dead and the sweeping consequences of the al-Qaida attacks on symbols of U.S. might and prosperity. The milestone anniversary broug...
Sep 11, 2026
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Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has now spread to the country's seventh province, officials say
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo, the world's fastest-growing outbreak of the disease on record, has now spread to seven provinces in the African country, local authorities said. And it's showing no signs of slowing down. ...
Sep 11, 2026
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Emma Bonino, leader of the abortion battle that changed Italy, dies at 78
ROME (AP) - Emma Bonino, who rose to political prominence in the 1970s as a leader of the Radical Party campaign to legalize abortion in heavily Roman Catholic Italy over the objections of the Vatican, has died. She was 78. Her party of r...
Sep 11, 2026
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Police say 5 dead, 40 injured in tour bus crash in eastern Switzerland
GENEVA (AP) - Police say five people have died and 40 others were injured after a Dutch tour bus slammed into a roadside crash barrier and overturned in eastern Switzerland. The bus, with 45 people on board, overturned Thursday afternoon ...
Sep 11, 2026
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Death toll in Philippine ferry fire rises to 35 as more bodies are recovered
CORON, Philippines (AP) - The death toll from a fire on a passenger fire in the Philippines has risen to 35, as more bodies were recovered Friday from the burned wreck, with 54 still missing. There were 43 survivors from the fire that er...
Sep 11, 2026
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Hong Kong court sentences 3 Tiananmen vigil organizers to prison in national security case
HONG KONG (AP) - Three Hong Kong activists who organized annual vigils in remembrance of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown were sentenced Friday to about 5 to 7 years in prison in a case widely seen as a barometer of the city's eroding freedoms a...
Sep 11, 2026
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In Florida's 15th execution this year, man put to death for killing linked to 'Hog Trail Murders'
STARKE, Fla. (AP) - A Florida man convicted in one of a series of suspected killings that became known as the "Hog Trail Murders" in the 1990s was put to death Thursday, becoming the state's 15th person executed this year. Daniel Owen Co...
Sep 10, 2026
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Prosecutor brought in to lead investigation of Trump foes tells AP that he has resigned his position
WASHINGTON (AP) - An ally of President Donald Trump said Thursday that he has resigned from his post leading a Justice Department investigation into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against the Republican president. ...
Sep 10, 2026
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Dutch tour bus overturns in Switzerland, leaving several people dead, police say
GENEVA (AP) - A Dutch tour bus overturned in eastern Switzerland in a serious accident that left several people dead and others injured, police said. The bus overturned Thursday afternoon between the villages of Susch and Zernez in the A...
Sep 10, 2026
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Appeals court hands Trump a loss on mail voting as Supreme Court considers his executive order
WASHINGTON (AP) - An appeals court on Thursday upheld a block on President Donald Trump's executive order limiting mail voting, a decision that comes as the Supreme Court considers the same case and states have already started sending out ballots for t...
Sep 10, 2026
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Fire in eastern Congo kills at least 26 students at 2 schools
BUKAVU, Congo (AP) - A fire swept through two adjacent schools Thursday in the city of Bukavu in eastern Congo, killing at least 26 students and injuring dozens, the provincial government said. The South Kivu provincial government said in...
Sep 10, 2026
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Appeals court hands Trump a loss on mail voting as Supreme Court considers his executive order
WASHINGTON (AP) - An appeals court on Thursday upheld a block on President Donald Trump's executive order limiting mail voting, a decision that comes as the Supreme Court considers the same case and states have already started sending out ballots for t...
Sep 10, 2026
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Appeals court hands Trump a loss on mail voting as Supreme Court considers his executive order
WASHINGTON (AP) - An appeals court on Thursday upheld a block on President Donald Trump's executive order limiting mail voting, a decision that comes as the Supreme Court considers the same case and states have already started sending out ballots for t...
Sep 10, 2026
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Iran-backed Houthi rebels take strategic port city in Yemen, raising threat to Red Sea shipping
ADEN, Yemen (AP) - The Iran-backed Houthi rebel group on Thursday took over Yemen's port city of Mokha, an area vital to controlling shipping through the Red Sea, Houthi and Yemeni officials said. Mokha is about 80 kilometers (50 miles) f...
Sep 10, 2026
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Missouri is poised to revert to former congressional districts after court rejects Trump-backed map
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri is poised to hold its November election with congressional districts passed after the last census, after the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday again rejected a new map backed by President Donald Trump that Republicans h...
Sep 10, 2026
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Tropical Storm Norbert forms in the Pacific Ocean and isn't threatening land
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Norbert formed Thursday in the Pacific Ocean and wasn't threatening land, forecasters said. The storm was about 685 miles (1,102 kilometers) southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula of Mex...
Sep 10, 2026
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