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Updated: 3 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
A targeted shooting inside a Spirit Halloween store in Northern California left a pregnant woman dead and six other people wounded, police said.
Updated: 6 hours ago
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Saying the president was “grasping at straws,” a federal judge on Saturday threw out Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch over a story reporting on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer
The U.S. did not invent Halloween. But Halloween excess could not be more American.
Updated: Oct. 30, 2026 at 11:34 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Pope Leo XIV has made history as the first pontiff to cast a ballot in a U.S. election, submitting a Chicago mail-in ballot ahead of the midterms.
Top federal prosecutor in Alaska says criminal probe underway over would-be spoiler Senate candidate
Updated: Oct. 30, 2026 at 5:09 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
The top federal prosecutor in Alaska confirmed on Friday the existence of a criminal investigation related to an alleged scheme to confuse voters by putting a Senate candidate on the ballot with the same name as the Republican incumbent.
Updated: Oct. 30, 2026 at 3:39 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and ANNA WILDER, JACK BROOK and LEKAN OYEKANMI Associated Press/Report for America
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer accused of intentionally ramming his car into a Mexican construction worker has been indicted.
Updated: Oct. 30, 2026 at 2:19 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and MICHELLE L. PRICE, SEUNG MIN KIM and JOEY CAPPELLETTI, Associated Press
As early voting surges across the country, President Donald Trump is reshuffling his weekend schedule.
Updated: Oct. 30, 2026 at 1:04 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Prosecutors in Miami-Dade have dropped a felony battery charge against Rick Ross due to insufficient evidence, though he still faces a misdemeanor count.
Updated: Oct. 30, 2026 at 9:45 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and Camruinn Morgan-Rumsey
Convicted killer Christa Pike says she remains in constant physical and emotional pain after surviving a botched lethal injection execution in Tennessee.
Updated: Oct. 30, 2026 at 9:09 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Three people detained at an Indiana immigration facility known as the “Speedway Slammer” say detainees languish in solitary confinement for weeks, are denied essential medical treatment and are subjected to abuse and racial slurs by facility officials.
Updated: Oct. 30, 2026 at 6:40 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Binance said late on Thursday that approximately $6.3 billion was impacted, which its founder described as “like a hack.”
Updated: Oct. 30, 2026 at 6:13 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer
This was Jacobs’ second game of the season after coming off the commissioner’s exempt list.
Updated: Oct. 30, 2026 at 1:54 AM EDT
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A protester yelled as President Donald Trump spoke during a campaign rally at the Shoemaker Center at Ohio University.
Updated: Oct. 30, 2026 at 12:17 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press
The ad provoked backlash in Ohio and nationwide.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2026 at 10:25 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and MICHELLE L. PRICE, STEVEN SLOAN and ERIK VERDUZCO
President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled weekend rallies in Iowa and Kansas, opting instead to support Republican candidates with telerallies.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2026 at 9:02 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and THOMAS PEIPERT and MEAD GRUVER
An Egyptian man faces an additional life sentence after pleading guilty Thursday to federal hate crime and other charges for a deadly firebombing attack on demonstrators.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2026 at 7:42 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press
The Senate is unlikely to act before the end of the year on a House-passed bill that would make daylight saving time permanent.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2026 at 3:01 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and BEN FINLEY and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN
The figure from U.S. Central Command, which oversees operations in the Middle East, is as of Oct. 16 and offers the most up-to-date cost for the conflict since it was launched in late February by the United States and Israel.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2026 at 2:21 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
The U.S. economy posted strong growth in the July-September quarter yet inflation remained stubbornly high last month, government reports showed Thursday.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2026 at 12:11 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and ROB MAADDI AP Sports Writer
The Milwaukee Brewers have won their first World Series title, beating the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 in Game 5.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2026 at 11:20 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Former President Barack Obama is pushing back on Republicans’ reactions to a recent quip he made about President Donald Trump’s White House renovations and decor.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2026 at 6:57 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and GARY FIELDS Associated Press
Trump's public announcements have been contrary to witness statements in the lawsuit challenging the president's renovation plans.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2026 at 12:14 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press
The Odyssey set sail two years ago on a voyage to the seven continents.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2026 at 12:12 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and JOSPEH WILSON Associated Press
It was the second major train train accident in Spain this year.
Trump calls for prosecution of Democratic Alaska Senate candidate over spoiler candidate controversy
Updated: Oct. 28, 2026 at 10:45 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and BECKY BOHRER and NICHOLAS RICCARDI
President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for prosecution of Alaska’s Democratic Senate candidate over her campaign’s alleged recruitment of a same-name rival to incumbent Dan Sullivan.



































