GOMA, Congo (AP) — The end of one of the world's deadliest and yet most shadowy wars is as difficult to predict as the end of the large peacekeeping force meant to contain it. Congo desperately wants stability in its mineral-rich east, of intense interest to the global economy. But political...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli lawmakers passed two laws on Monday that could threaten the work of the main U.N. agency providing aid to people in Gaza by barring it from operating on Israeli soil, severing ties with it and labeling it a terror organization. Palestinians line up for a meal in Rafah,...
NEW YORK (AP) — Investigators from multiple federal agencies launched an "interagency operation” on Monday at the troubled New York City jail where Sean “Diddy” Combs is being held. Federal enforcement officers stand outside the Metropolitan Detention Center, where Sean “Diddy” Combs is...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Incendiary devices were set off Monday at two ballot drop boxes — one in Portland and another in nearby Vancouver, Washington — destroying hundreds of ballots in what one official called a “direct attack on democracy” about a week before a heated Election Day. In...
Uncertainty reigns entering the final full week of the 2024 campaign with Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump locked in a fiercely competitive presidential contest . What happens in the coming days will be pivotal in deciding the winner of next week's election. Trump on Sunday held a...
NEW YORK (AP) — Billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos on Monday defended the newspaper's decision not to endorse a presidential candidate as “right” and “principled” and pushed back against any notion that he ordered it up to protect his business interests. People walk by the One...
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is finally getting his Madison Square Garden moment. Video boards outside Madison Square Garden display information about the campaign rally for Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Israeli attack on Iran damaged facilities at a secretive military base southeast of the Iranian capital that experts in the past have linked to Tehran's onetime nuclear weapons program and at another base tied to its ballistic missile program, satellite...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kamala Harris told a church congregation Sunday that the United States is “determined to turn the page on hatred and division.” Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris attends a service at the Church of Christian Compassion, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) – Iran's supreme leader said Sunday that Israel's attack on Iran this weekend "should not be exaggerated nor downplayed," though he stopped short of calling for retaliation. KHAMENEI Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's remarks are the latest suggesting Iran is carefully...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) – Israeli strikes on northern Gaza have killed at least 22 people, mostly women and children, Palestinian officials said Sunday, as its offensive in the hard-hit and isolated north entered a third week and aid groups described a humanitarian catastrophe. The...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone strike killed a teenager in Kyiv during a nighttime barrage on the Ukrainian capital that lasted for hours, officials said, while five people were reportedly killed in a missile attack on central Ukraine that also left at least 21 injured. A medical...