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Fears over migration and crime push Chile’s presidential race to the right
SANTIAGO, Chile — Fans sported MAGA-style caps. AC/DC blasted from the speakers. Red, white and blue flags flapped in the wind. Crowds whooped and cheered as the man of the hour lamented the surge of migrants across the border. “This country isn’t falling apart,” he bellowed. “It is being shot...
Bus crashes into a stop in Stockholm, killing 3, injuring 3
STOCKHOLM — A double-decker bus crashed into a bus stop in Stockholm on Friday, killing three people and injuring three others, police said. Authorities were alerted to the crash at 3:23 p.m. on Friday. The vehicle rammed into the bus shelter on Valhallavägen, a street in the Swedish capital’s Östermalm...
New prosecutor takes on the Georgia election case against Trump and others
ATLANTA — A longtime prosecutor announced he will take over the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and others, after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was removed from the case and no one else wanted the job. The nonpartisan Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia was tasked with...
London judge finds global mining company BHP Group liable in Brazil’s worst environmental disaster
LONDON — A London judge ruled Friday that global mining company BHP Group is liable in Brazil’s worst environmental disaster when a dam collapse a decade ago unleashed tons of toxic waste into a major river, killing 19 people and devastating villages downstream. High Court Justice Finola O’Farrell said that...
Opioid settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue and Sackler family could end years of legal battles
NEW YORK — Lawyers representing OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, branches of the Sackler family that own it, cities, states, counties, Native American tribes, people with addiction and others across the U.S. delivered a nearly unanimous message for a bankruptcy court judge Friday: Approve a plan to settle thousands of opioid-related...
Court blocks new rules limiting which immigrants can get commercial drivers’ licenses
The Transportation Department’s new restrictions that would severely limit which immigrants can get commercial driver’s licenses to drive a semitrailer truck or bus have been put on hold by a federal appeals court. The court in the District of Columbia ruled Thursday that the rules Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced...
BBC apologizes to Trump over its misleading edit, but says there’s no basis for a defamation claim
LONDON — The BBC apologized Thursday to U.S. President Donald Trump over a misleading edit of his speech on Jan. 6, 2021, but said it had not defamed him, rejecting the basis for his $1 billion lawsuit threat. The BBC said Chair Samir Shah sent a personal letter to the...
Israel says militants have returned remains of 1 of the last 4 hostages in Gaza
JERUSALEM — Israel said Thursday that militants have handed over the body of one of the last four remaining hostages taken during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that launched the war in Gaza. Israel identified the returned body as that of Meny Godard, who was abducted from Kibbutz Be’eri in...
The body of a coal miner has been found in a flooded West Virginia mine, the governor says
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The body of a coal miner was found early Thursday in a mine that flooded in southern West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said. Machines had been pumping water out of Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc.’s Rolling Thunder Mine near Belva, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of the...
Ammonia gas leak from a tanker truck in Oklahoma sickens dozens and forces evacuations
WEATHERFORD, Okla. — A leaking tanker truck spewed dangerous ammonia gas in a hotel parking lot, forcing hundreds of residents in a small Oklahoma city to evacuate and sending several dozen people to the hospital, authorities said Thursday. Officials lifted a shelter-in-place order Thursday morning, hours after firefighters wearing gas...
Jesse Jackson hospitalized as he battles longstanding neurological illness
Civil rights leader and former presidential candidate the Rev. Jesse Jackson has been hospitalized in Chicago, his organization said Wednesday. Jackson, 84, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with deep ties to Atlanta’s civil rights community, is under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy, or PSP, the Rainbow...
Former Marine who killed 6-year-old girl more than 4 decades ago set for execution in Florida
STARKE, Fla. — A former Marine convicted of killing a 6-year-old girl more than four decades ago is scheduled Thursday to be executed in Florida, which would be the record 16th death sentence carried out under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. Barring a last-minute reprieve, Bryan Frederick Jennings, 66, is set...
States scramble to send full SNAP food benefits to millions of people after government shutdown ends
With the longest U.S. government shutdown over, state officials said Thursday that they are working quickly to get full SNAP food benefits to millions of people, though it still could take up to a week for some to receive their delayed aid. A back-and-forth series of court rulings and shifting...
Rights groups dispute Cameroon’s death toll from postelection protests and claim at least 30 killed
YAOUNDE, Cameroon — Rights groups in Cameroon disputed Thursday the government’s death toll of 16 killed during protests over the election victory of President Paul Biya last month, claiming the actual figure is nearly double. Philippe Nanga, coordinator of the rights group A World for the Future, told The Associated...
Oklahoma governor spares the life of inmate just before he was to be executed
McALESTER, Okla. — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has spared the life of a death row inmate just before he was set to receive a lethal injection on Thursday, commuting the man’s sentence to life in prison without parole. Stitt formally granted clemency to Tremane Wood, 46, who was scheduled to...
Judge hears arguments challenging appointment of prosecutor who charged James Comey, Letitia James
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Lawyers for two of President Donald Trump’s foes who have been charged by the Justice Department asked a judge on Thursday to dismiss the cases against them, saying the prosecutor who secured the indictments was illegally installed in the role. U.S. District Cameron McGowan Currie didn’t immediately...
Shutdown’s end brings relief for federal workers, renewed health-care debate ahead
President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill Wednesday night, ending a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without paychecks, stranded scores of travelers at airports and generated long lines at some food banks. The signing ceremony came just hours after the House passed...
Starbucks union baristas to walk out in 40 cities in push for contract talks
More than 1,000 Starbucks unionized baristas in over 40 U.S. cities launched an open-ended strike on Thursday, the union said, escalating their push for a collective bargaining agreement over pay and other benefits at the coffee giant. The walkout, which the union said will begin with 65 stores, coincides with...
U.S. government reopens, but deep political divisions remain
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is due to lumber back to life Thursday after the longest shutdown in U.S. history snarled air traffic, cut food assistance to low-income Americans and forced more than 1 million workers to go unpaid for more than a month. But the deep political divisions that...
House passes deal to end longest government shutdown
WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, moving past a political mess that has lasted for 43 days and left millions of Americans unable to travel or afford food. The measure passed on a vote of 222-209 and now heads...
Trump warns GOP after he’s named in Epstein emails
WASHINGTON – Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker, wrote that President Donald Trump “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims and allegedly “knew about the girls,” according to emails House Democrats released Nov. 12. The White House called the Democratic release of the emails...
Adelita Grijalva sworn in after 7-week delay, securing Epstein files vote
WASHINGTON – In his first order of business after a nearly two-month-long recess, House Speaker Mike Johnson swore in Arizona Democratic congresswoman Adelita Grijalva on Wednesday, Nov. 12. The official action took place seven weeks after her special election victory in September to replace her late father in Congress. The...
White House says Trump is committed to a $2,000 dividend to Americans using tariff income
WASHINGTON -President Donald Trump is committed to providing Americans a $2,000 check using money that has come into government coffers from Trump’s tariffs, the White House said on Wednesday. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Trump’s staff is exploring how to go about making the plan a...
The penny, America’s oldest and most iconic coin in circulation, dies at 232
The penny, the United States’ iconic one-cent coin whose copper face and everyman symbolism endeared it to millions of Americans before it fell into change-drawer obscurity, died on Nov. 12, 2025. It was 232 years old. In its heyday it was ubiquitous, an American avatar of grit, humility and thrift....
Gaza patients face a painful wait as hospitals sag under burden of cases
CAIRO/GAZA — Mohammed Wael Helles, 14, has been waiting for surgery on a serious spinal injury caused by an Israeli airstrike for nearly two months, one of thousands of Gazans waiting for urgent treatment in Gaza’s battered health system. Helles was a top student with aspirations of becoming a doctor...
