By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine’s state auditor and former secretary of state said Monday he will challenge four-term Democratic Rep. Jared Golden in a primary in advance of one of the most closely watched congressional races in the upcoming midterms. Golden is a moderate Democrat who represents Maine’s 2nd Congressional
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By MATTHEW LEE, LISA MASCARO and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is considering admitting far fewer refugees into the U.S. this year — as few as 7,500, and mostly white South Africans, officials say — a dramatic new low as the administration is conducting sweeping immigration raids as part of
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By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s the life of a saleswoman. Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” sold 2.7 million copies in traditional album sales — which include physical and digital formats — in its first day in the U.S. That’s according to Luminate, an industry
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — U.S. government lawyers say that detainees at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” likely include people who have never been in removal proceedings, which is a direct contradiction to what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been saying since it opened
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By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Here’s a question about the shutdown submitted by an Associated Press reader, G: Is it legal to fire furloughed federal workers during a shutdown? This question has prompted a fierce conversation, and it ultimately might be up to the courts to decide. Before the shutdown went into effect, a group
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By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Democrat Amy McGrath, a retired Marine aviator, on Monday entered the Senate campaign in Kentucky, vowing to be a “bulwark against authoritarianism” in launching a comeback bid after being trounced by Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell in 2020. McGrath joins a growing field of Republicans and Democrats
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By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The head of a nonpartisan agency tasked with finding a prosecutor to take over the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and others is asking for more time after a judge set a two-week deadline for that appointment to be made. Fulton County Superior Court
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By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — As France’s government unraveled in another episode of political instability Monday, the cogs of the luxury industry kept turning. At the Iéna Palace in Paris’ 16th arrondissement, Miuccia Prada’s Miu Miu offered its own brand of reassurance: business as usual, chic as ever at Paris Fashion
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By The Associated Press (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Tuesday, Oct. 7 COLLEGE GOLF 5:30 p.m. GOLF — 2025 NB3 Collegiate: Match Play – Day 1, Twin Warriors Golf Course, Santa Ana Pueblo, N.M. COLLEGE SOCCER (MEN’S) 7 p.m. ESPNU — Denver at Georgetown MLB BASEBALL 4:05 p.m. FS1 — A.L.
Continue Reading All Times EDT Eastern Conference W L T Pts GF GA Philadelphia 20 7 6 66 57 33 Cincinnati 19 9 5 62 49 40 Inter Miami CF 17 7 8 59 72 53 Charlotte FC 18 13 2 56 53 46 New York City FC 17 11 5 56 49 42 Nashville 16 11
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By The Associated Press It’s now Day 6 of the shutdown, and the Democratic minority leader has challenged the Republican House speaker to a televised debate on the impasse over reopening the federal government. Mike Johnson dismissed Hakeem Jeffries’ challenge as “theatrics.” Mutual trust between President Donald Trump and the Democrats is elusive as leaders
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Continue Reading All Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB New York 2 0 1.000 — Brooklyn 1 0 1.000 ½ Philadelphia 0 2 .000 2 Toronto 0 1 .000 1½ Boston 0 0 .000 1 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Orlando 1 0 1.000 — Miami 0 2 .000 1½ Atlanta 0
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By MELANIE LIDMAN and RENATA BRITO Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities said Monday they deported to Greece and Slovakia another 171 people detained for taking part in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, including prominent Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. Israel’s foreign ministry posted on X that “the deportees were citizens of Greece, Italy, France, Ireland,
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By SAMY MAGDY, MELANIE LIDMAN and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Israeli and Hamas officials launched indirect talks Monday at an Egyptian resort on a U.S.-drafted peace plan to end the ruinous war in Gaza on the eve of its second anniversary. The talks, which went on for several hours, unfolded amid many
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By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court refused Monday to revive a controversial Missouri gun law that bans police from enforcing some federal firearm laws. The high court rejected a push to hear arguments over whether the state can block police from enforcing federal gun laws that don’t have an equivalent
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By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court on Monday convicted a leader of the feared Janjaweed militia of playing a leading role in a campaign of atrocities committed in the Sudanese region of Darfur more than 20 years ago. It was the first time the court has convicted
Continue Reading By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Paramount said Monday that it has bought the news and commentary website The Free Press and installed its founder, Bari Weiss, as the editor-in-chief of CBS News, saying it believes the country longs for news that is balanced and fact-based. It’s a bold step for
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By ANSELM GIBBS Associated Press PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — On a recent afternoon, Kenrick Modie finished untangling his fishing net in a quiet Caribbean village. As he slipped into a hammock at his home overlooking the sea, he worried that his life and livelihood could be wiped out by a U.S. military strike. Modie lives
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By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Long-range Ukrainian drones and missiles hit a major Russian ammunition plant, a key oil terminal and an important weapons depot behind the front line, Ukraine’s president and military said Monday, as Kyiv cranked up pressure on Moscow’s military logistics. The Sverdlov ammunition plant in the Nizhny
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By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has begun correcting some of Pope Francis’ more questionable financial reforms and decisions, canceling a law Monday that had concentrated financial power in the Vatican bank. Leo completely abrogated the 2022 law that had decreed that management of the Holy See’s assets was
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By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer BRANTFORD, Ontario (AP) — Wearing protective gloves and earplugs, a worker feeds lengths of wood into a machine that makes an earsplitting whine as it automatically cuts a groove into the end of each piece. Nearby, stacks of wooden wedges wait to be slotted into those grooves to form
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By ITZEL LUNA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The eerie zombies from “The Walking Dead” first stepped into viewers’ living rooms on Halloween nearly 15 years ago, unknowingly ushering in a new era for the horror genre. Fans are getting a chance to own some of the franchise’s most coveted items. AMC Networks, in
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By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The economic boom promised by President Donald Trump centers on a single number: $17 trillion. That’s the sum of new investments that Trump claims to have generated with his tariffs, income tax cuts and aggressive salesmanship of CEOs, financiers, tech titans, prime ministers, presidents and other rulers.
Continue Reading By LYDIA DOYE Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Police were investigating Monday what they called a hate crime after a mosque was set on fire in an English coastal town. The fire on Saturday night came two days after two men were killed when a knife-wielding assailant attacked their synagogue in Manchester on the holiest
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By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt is running for the U.S. Senate in Texas, defying Senate GOP leadership and adding a new element to an already contentious primary campaign. The two-term Houston-area congressman said he’s running because he doesn’t believe Republican incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, who’s had a cool relationship with President
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By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — There are no $1 million giveaways to voters, cheesehead hats or even candidate debates. Elon Musk is nowhere to be found. Yet the stakes in the Pennsylvania election this fall are very much the same as they were in Wisconsin last spring: partisan control of the
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