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By Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea | North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Thursday, South Korea’s military said, days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to put his nuclear force fully ready for battle with its rivals. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the missiles

By Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine — The United States and Britain pledged nearly $1.5 billion in additional aid to Ukraine on Wednesday during a visit to Kyiv by their top diplomats as Ukrainian officials renewed their pleas to use Western-provided missiles against targets deeper inside Russia. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced more than

By Associated Press WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. — Three major wildfires in Southern California’s mountains east of Los Angeles torched dozens of homes and forced thousands of people to flee their towns, officials said Wednesday. At least a dozen people, mainly firefighters, were treated for injuries that were mostly heat-related, authorities said. One person from Orange County

By Associated Press WASHINGTON — Donald Trump emerged Wednesday from a rocky debate against Kamala Harris looking to regain his footing with 55 days until Election Day, the first ballots already going out in Alabama and other states on the cusp of early voting. Not even three months ago, Trump stepped off the debate stage

By Associated Press MORGAN CITY, La. — Hurricane Francine struck the Louisiana coast Wednesday evening as a dangerous Category 2 storm that rapidly knocked out electricity to more than 100,000 customers and threatened widespread flooding as it sent potentially deadly storm surge rushing inland along the northern U.S. Gulf Coast. Francine made landfall in Terrebonne

By Associated Press NAPA, Calif. — With so much controversy in the media and among fans following his being named to the American team for the Presidents Cup, Max Homa is looking forward to getting a bit of respite at this week’s Procore Championship at Silverado Country Club. A two-time winner at this event, Homa

By Associated Press PITTSBURGH — The NFL Players Association would like to have more consistency in what kind of turf its members play on, be it at home or overseas. NFLPA executive director Lloyd Howell Jr. said Wednesday that moving forward it plans to be “assertive” when it comes to having input on field conditions,

By Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes said Wednesday he will not endorse either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, even as the former president continued to call Mahomes’ wife, Brittany, a supporter of his campaign. “I don’t want my place and my platform to be used to endorse a

By Associated Press NEW YORK — With presidential candidates looking on, some 9/11 victims’ relatives appealed to them Wednesday for accountability as the U.S. marked an anniversary laced with election-season politics. In a remarkable tableau, President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris stood together at ground zero just hours after

By Associated Press NEW YORK — U.S. stock indexes stormed back from big early drops on Wednesday to finish higher, led by a handful of influential Big Tech companies. The S&P 500 rallied 1.1% after erasing a morning wipeout of 1.6%, one where almost every stock within the index had been falling. A majority of

By Associated Press WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson pulled a vote Wednesday on a temporary spending bill that would keep federal agencies and programs funded for six months as it became increasingly clear the measure lacked the support to pass as a potential partial government shutdown looms. The legislation to continue government funding when the

By Associated Press TORONTO — When the British filmmaker Mike Leigh was 6, his father, a doctor who would oppose his son becoming an artist, told him to quit drawing pictures of people. In a way, Leigh never stopped. In his six decades making movies, the 81-year-old Leigh has made some of the most humanistic

By Associated Press The U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday that it is ending discounts that shipping consolidators such as UPS and DHL use to get packages to the nation’s doorsteps, in a move meant to help the Postal Service slow losses but that could see the higher costs passed on to consumers. Consolidators move about

By Associated Press ROME — First Paris, now Rome and next Barcelona — Lily Collins is taking on two more European cities. As the star and producer of “Emily in Paris,” she’s been playing the unlucky-in-love marketing executive, breaking hearts (including her own) in France for the past three seasons of the Netflix show. That

By Associated Press The Emmys have become the “Shogun” show well before Sunday’s ceremony even begins. The FX series about political machinations among local lords, Portuguese traders and a wandering British sailor is already the winningest series for a single season in Emmy history after taking 14 trophies at the precursor Creative Arts ceremony on

By Associated Press Hallmark launching a streaming service with two new original series, and Bill Skarsgård out for revenge in “Boy Kills World” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists:

By Associated Press WASHINGTON — The post-pandemic spike in U.S. inflation eased further last month as year-over-year price increases reached a three-year low, clearing the way for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates and likely shaping the economic debate in the final weeks of the presidential race. Wednesday’s report from the Labor Department showed

By Associated Press NEW YORK — Single mother Rebecca Wood, 45, was already dealing with high medical bills in 2020 when she noticed she was being charged a $2.49 “program fee” each time she loaded money onto her daughter’s school lunch account. As more schools turn to cashless payment systems, more districts have contracted with

By Rodney Coates and Lee Banville The Conversation via AP As the two presidential candidates entered the debate stage, Kamala Harris strode across it and offered her hand to Donald Trump to shake, setting a confident tone that didn’t flag throughout the debate. Trump, appearing to grow angrier through the night, stuck to his well-trodden

By Metro Creative Pecans are a species of hickory native to northern Mexico and the southern United States. Pecan trees are cultivated for their edible nuts, and it can take 12 years for a tree to reach maturity and begin producing. The history of pecans, which are the only major tree nut that grows naturally

By Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Kamala Harris and Donald Trump showcased starkly different visions for the country on abortion, immigration and American democracy as they met for the first time Tuesday for perhaps their only debate before November’s presidential election. The Democratic vice president moved to get under the skin of the former Republican president,

By Associated Press NEW YORK — Seth Lugo struck out 10 in seven masterful innings and Salvador Perez hit two run-scoring singles to reach 100 RBIs for the second time as the Kansas City Royals beat the New York Yankees 5-0 on Tuesday night. Tommy Pham homered and Bobby Witt Jr. had an RBI single