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Month: September 2025

Giorgio Armani, who dressed the powerful and famous from boardroom to Hollywood, dies at 91

By COLLEEN BARRY and DANIELA PETROFF AP Fashion Writers MILAN (AP) — Giorgio Armani, the iconic Italian designer who turned the concept of understated elegance into a multibillion-dollar fashion empire, died Thursday, his fashion house confirmed. He was 91. Armani died at home, “peacefully, surrounded by his loved ones,” the fashion house said. “Indefatigable to

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Giorgio Armani, who dressed the powerful and famous from boardroom to Hollywood, dies at 91

By COLLEEN BARRY and DANIELA PETROFF AP Fashion Writers MILAN (AP) — Giorgio Armani, the iconic Italian designer who turned the concept of understated elegance into a multibillion-dollar fashion empire, died Thursday, his fashion house confirmed. He was 91. Armani died at home, “peacefully, surrounded by his loved ones,” the fashion house said. “Indefatigable to

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Death toll from Afghan earthquake jumps to more than 2,200 as aid agencies plead for funds

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds more bodies have been recovered from houses in mountain villages destroyed by a major earthquake in Afghanistan early this week, pushing the death toll to over 2,200, a Taliban government spokesman said Thursday. The shallow, 6.0-magnitude quake struck the mountainous and remote eastern part of the country late Sunday, leveling

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Palestinian death toll passes 64,000, health officials say, as Israel and Hamas dig in on demands

By WAFAA SHURAFA, KAREEM CHEHAYEB and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 64,000 Palestinians have been killed in the nearly two-year war in the Gaza Strip, local health officials said Thursday, as Hamas and Israel reiterated their incompatible demands for ending the fighting sparked by the militant group’s 2023

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Macron says 26 countries pledge troops as a reassurance force for Ukraine after war ends

By ILLIA NOVIKOV and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that 26 of Ukraine’s allies have pledged to deploy troops as a “reassurance force” for the war-torn country once fighting ends in the conflict with Russia. Macron spoke after a meeting in Paris of the so-called “coalition

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Hurricane Lorena weakens as risk of flash floods and mudslides for Mexico’s west coast remain

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Lorena is weakening and was expected to revert to a tropical storm Thursday, forecasters said, adding there’s still a risk of life-threatening flash floods and mudslides for parts of Mexico’s west coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Center also issued watches for parts of the U.S. Southwest, where heavy rainfall from Lorena

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Transgender federal employees say they face fear and discrimination under Trump

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press Marc Seawright took pride in his job at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where he worked for more than eight years and most recently oversaw technology policy to support the agency’s mission of combating workplace harassment and discrimination. But then President Donald Trump began targeting transgender and nonbinary people

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Transgender federal employees say they face fear and discrimination under Trump

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press Marc Seawright took pride in his job at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where he worked for more than eight years and most recently oversaw technology policy to support the agency’s mission of combating workplace harassment and discrimination. But then President Donald Trump began targeting transgender and nonbinary people

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US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confidence about previewing autism conclusions this month comes amid broad upheaval for federal health agencies.

Kennedy said there will be autism answers this month. With public health agencies in upheaval, autism advocates are alarmed

By Sarah Owermohle, CNN (CNN) — US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged in April that there would be answers on the causes of autism this month. Since then, he has ousted public health officials, publicly rebuked studies showing no link between vaccines and autism, and said “interventions” are “almost certainly”

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Powerful rain and floods devastate northern India as experts blame climate change

By PIYUSH NAGPAL and SIBI ARASU Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Relentless monsoon rains have unleashed some of the worst flooding and landslides in decades across northern India, killing at least 90 people and displacing hundreds of thousands in recent weeks, government officials said. India’s Himalayan Mountain states and territories such as Uttarakhand, Himachal

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