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Hegseth calls Iran war necessary and waves off 'the noise' of expected impeachment push
WASHINGTON (AP) - Facing an expected impeachment resolution in Congress, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he's eager to litigate the military actions that he and President Donald Trump have taken against Iran, Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels an...
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France blames Iran for last month's cyberattack on supermarket fridges
PARIS (AP) - France on Monday blamed Iran for last month's massive cyberattack on supermarket fridges, summoned the Iranian ambassador and said it would seek European sanctions against those responsible for the attack. The Oct. 12 attack...
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Death toll rises to 39 after migrant boat capsizes off Senegal
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - The death toll from the capsize off Senegal of a boat carrying migrants rose to 39 following the discovery of more bodies on Monday, the country's emergency services said. The boat, which left Saint-Louis in northern...
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Teddy Riner announces a run for French president, pledging to bring people together
French judo star Teddy Riner is bidding for president. The 37-year-old multiple Olympic champion announced his bid on social media and said in an interview with Le Parisien newspaper published Monday that he is positioning himself as "nei...
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Gunman with far-right views who killed 6 in Polish city square dies in hospital, police say
KRAKOW, Poland (AP) - The 24-year-old gunman who killed six people and wounded 15 others in a Polish city square died in a hospital on Monday, police said. The attacker, wearing military-style clothing and a bulletproof vest, drove into t...
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Death toll from migrant boat found with bodies on board south of Greece increases to 14
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - At least 22 people died while attempting to reach Greece from North Africa over the past three days, with 13 bodies recovered from a boat south of Crete on Monday and eight found in another boat over the weekend. Mor...
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Rubio says Trump's war against Iran not 'necessarily popular' but needed to stop a nuclear threat
HOMESTEAD AIR RESERVE BASE, Fla. (AP) - Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that President Donald Trump launched the war against Iran even if it was not "necessarily popular" to safeguard the world from the country's nuclear ambitions. ...
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Pope arrives in Argentina and tells Milei that people, not the economy, should come first
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Pope Leo XIV delivered a diplomatic but subtly strong critique of Argentine President Javier Milei's austerity measures and libertarian agenda as he arrived Sunday in Argentina, insisting that political leaders must put p...
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Collision between 2 trains in Egypt kills 7 and injures at least 125
AL-AYYAT, Egypt (AP) - Two trains collided Sunday south of the Egyptian capital of Cairo, killing seven people and injuring at least 125, authorities said. The train's conductor was among those killed. The Health Ministry gave the casualt...
Nov 8, 2026
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Israel's president gives Eisenkot the first chance to form the next government
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli President Isaac Herzog formally gave opposition politician Gadi Eisenkot the first chance to form the next government Sunday evening. Complex coalition negotiations still lie ahead, but it marked a significant st...
Nov 8, 2026
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A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 strikes Japan, meteorological agency says
TOKYO (AP) - A strong earthquake shook central Japan early Sunday, shattering store windows, causing people to flee buildings and leaving at least 22 people injured, according to local media. Japan's Meteorological Agency put the quake's ...
Nov 7, 2026
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US military says it fired on commercial vessel in Gulf of Oman after it attempted to breach blockade
JERUSALEM (AP) - U.S. Central Command said late Saturday it disabled a St. Kitts-flagged ship after it ignored multiple warnings and attempted to leave the region after visiting an Iranian port. U.S. forces have been enforcing a naval blo...
Nov 7, 2026
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Israel's president taps opposition candidate Eisenkot to form a government, in setback for Netanyahu
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Saturday night that he was giving opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot the first opportunity to form a governing coalition following elections on Oct. 27. Eisenkot, a former military chie...
Nov 7, 2026
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Polish gunman who killed 6 people in Krakow has 'ultranationalistic' views, authorities say
KRAKOW, Poland (AP) - A Polish man with far-right views drove into a busy central square in Krakow on Saturday and opened fire, killing six people and injuring 15 others before police shot and wounded him, authorities said. The attack, wh...
Nov 7, 2026
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An airstrike has killed 25 people near Yemen's capital, Houthi official says
CAIRO (AP) - Airstrikes hit homes in a village near Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on Saturday, killing at least 25 people and wounding 30 others, mostly women and children, a spokesman for Yemen's Houthi-run Health Ministry said. Speaking to T...
Nov 7, 2026
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Powerful Haitian gang reaches out to state disarmament group as gunfights persist
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - One of Haiti's most powerful gangs said Friday that it reached out to a government agency responsible for dismantling armed gangs in a push for "peace, stability and national reconciliation." The 400 Mawozo ga...
Nov 6, 2026
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US Justice Department drops bid to force California to set aside disputed ballots
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday requested to dismiss its own lawsuit that sought to stop California from counting roughly 20,000 ballots it alleged went to noncitizens until their immigration statuses could be verified. ...
Nov 6, 2026
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Democrat Nancy Lacore wins election to U.S. House in South Carolina's 1st Congressional District
Democrat Nancy Lacore won election Friday to the U.S. House of Representatives representing South Carolina's 1st Congressional District, defeating Republican Jenny Costa Honeycutt. Lacore is a former Navy vice admiral who served as chief of the Navy Re...
Nov 6, 2026
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Tropical Storm Pena forms in the Pacific Ocean south of Hawaii
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Pena formed Friday in the Pacific Ocean, well south of the Hawaiian islands. Pena had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (72 kph) and was centered about 650 miles (1,046 kilometers) southeast of South Point, Haw...
Nov 6, 2026
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Cornell faculty vote 'no confidence' in university leadership after alleged fraternity gang rape
Cornell University's Faculty Senate approved a resolution Friday declaring "no confidence" in the school's top leaders, a symbolic gesture reflecting deep discontent on campus in the wake of a former student's lawsuit saying she was gang raped at a fra...
Nov 6, 2026
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Conservative bloc takes a slim lead in New Zealand election that's still too close to call
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - With more than 95% of the votes counted, New Zealand's election produced no definitive victory for the right or the left on Saturday but the incumbent conservative government hovered on the brink of a wafer-thin majority ...
Nov 6, 2026
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Pope 'proud to be an American' after US elections, and credits God and doctors with cancer rebound
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) - Pope Leo XIV said Friday that he was "proud to be an American and to exercise the right" to vote in U.S. midterm elections that gave control of Congress to the Democrats in a repudiation of U.S. President Donald Trump and ...
Nov 6, 2026
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Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy is discharged from hospital after a stroke and goes to rehab facility
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut said on Friday that he has been discharged from the hospital after suffering a stroke last weekend and will miss "several weeks" of votes in the Senate as he recovers in a rehabilitation fac...
Nov 6, 2026
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Pope Leo XIV arrives in Uruguay at start of South American tour less than a month after lung surgery
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - Three weeks after lung cancer surgery, Pope Leo XIV opened a three-nation tour of Latin America on Friday by declaring he felt better than he looked and crediting God, good doctors and his healthy lifestyle with his quick rec...
Nov 6, 2026
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Stephen Miller replaces Susie Wiles as Trump's White House chief of staff after GOP's midterm defeat
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Friday that Stephen Miller was replacing Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, installing as his closest adviser a loyal, combative bulldog for his "America First" agenda as the president prepares to s...
Nov 6, 2026
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Democrats win the Arizona House, Senate and governor's office for the first time since 1966
PHOENIX (AP) - Democrats in Arizona won control of both legislative chambers and retained the governor's office, giving the party its first trifecta in the state since 1966 as Democrats made major gains nationwide in this week's elections and took cont...
Nov 6, 2026
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Grieving father of Florida Learjet co-pilot defends his daughter's reputation after crash
The father of the 20-year-old co-pilot killed alongside eight others in a Florida Learjet crash said Friday he has repeatedly listened to her final radio transmissions, searching for answers and finding pride in how she handled the crisis. ...
Nov 6, 2026
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Houston mayor signs order to limit cooperation with ICE, says 'elections matter' after Democrats win
HOUSTON (AP) - The mayor of Houston on Friday said the city would limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities, heralding "a new model" of immigration enforcement after Democrats won power in Texas for the first time in decades. ...
Nov 6, 2026
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