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By HYUNG-JIN KIM and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it has put a military spy satellite into orbit on its third attempt. The North’s space authorities said the launch vehicle placed the Malligyong-1 satellite into orbit on Tuesday night. The North’s claim couldn’t be independently confirmed immediately. Observers

NEW BUFFALO, Mich. (AP) — A 911 call center is taking some responsibility for an Amtrak train derailment last week in Michigan. Berrien County says it misidentified a crossing and contacted a different railroad to warn that a car was stuck on tracks. The Amtrak train with 200 passengers crashed into the empty car and

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities have accused a Houston attorney of using work-related visits to a county jail to smuggle in legal paperwork laced with ecstasy and synthetic marijuana to inmates. Ronald Lewis was free on bond Monday after being arrested last week at the Harris County Jail in Houston

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Dexter Wade received a dignified funeral and burial Monday in Mississippi’s capital city, months after he was hit and killed by a police SUV and officials first buried his body in a pauper’s grave without notifying his family that he was dead. Under a gray

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Authorities in Haiti have arrested a new suspect in the July 2021 slaying of President Jovenel Moïse. Defense attorney Jimmy Jean-Baptiste told The Associated Press on Monday that Jacmel mayor Macky Kessa was detained but has not been charged. He said Kessa is being held in

KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) — For the second time in nearly four months, officials in a northwestern Arizona county are rejecting a proposal to hand-count all ballots in the 2024 election cycle. The option was floated as an alternative to relying on electronic tabulating equipment. The 3-2 vote by the Mohave County Board of Supervisors against

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press Retired Navy Capt. Don Walsh, an explorer who in 1960 was part of a two-man crew that made the first voyage to the deepest part of the ocean in the Mariana Trench has died. He was 92. His daughter Elizabeth says he died Nov. 12 at his home in Myrtle

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — State authorities are investigating after a California Highway Patrol officer shot and killed a man on a Los Angeles area freeway during a struggle over the weekend that was recorded on video. The deadly encounter occurred Sunday afternoon after the highway patrol responded to multiple calls

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate committee has issued bipartisan subpoenas to the CEOs of Discord, Snap and X, demanding that the heads of the three companies testify at a December hearing on protecting children online. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Gun battles between police and armed civilians in Cuernavaca, Mexico, have left nine dead, including two police officers. The Cuernavaca security agency said Monday that two other police officers were wounded in shootouts that began after a convoy of gunmen opened fire on people who were drinking the in street and

LONDON (AP) — The leaders of Britain and South Korea are seeking to strengthen trade and defense ties between their countries during a state visit to the U.K. by President Yoon Suk Yeol. Yoon landed outside London on Monday ahead of his formal three-day visit. Britain hopes his trip will help cement an “Indo-Pacific tilt”

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is celebrating his 81st birthday by joking repeatedly about his advanced age. At the same time, the White House is strongly defending his stamina and playing down polling suggesting that the issue could cost him votes during next year’s election. Biden is the oldest

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Queen Camilla has praised the role of journalists in society as she delivered the keynote address at the Foreign Press Association’s annual awards ceremony in London. King Charles III’s consort was mobbed as she arrived for the event. London-based foreign correspondents surrounded her as she mingled

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Utah man has been charged with threatening a Palestinian rights organization in Washington in a case that was unsealed Monday as tensions rise in the U.S. from the devastating war between Israel and Hamas. Kevin Brent Buchanan, 62, of Tooele, Utah, called the unidentified group at

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided federal appeals court on Monday ruled that private individuals and groups such as the NAACP do not have the ability to sue under a key section of the federal Voting Rights Act, a decision that contradicts decades of precedent and could

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A second group of U.S. House lawmakers toured the building where Parkland high school students were massacred in 2018. Five Democrats and one Republican toured Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Monday, walking through the blood-stained and bullet-pocked building. The building will be torn down next

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The Republican Party has urged New Mexico’s state Supreme Court to strike down a congressional map that divvied up a politically conservative oil-producing region and reshaped a swing district along the U.S. border with Mexico. The high court heard oral arguments without ruling Monday on

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The deaths of two people, muggings and a dangerous heat wave left legions of Taylor Swift’s Brazilian fans angry and disappointed in the three-day Rio de Janeiro leg of the pop superstar’s Eras Tour, which concludes Monday night. Gabriel Mongenot Santana Milhomem Santos, 25, a

By DANIEL POLITI and DAVID BILLER Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s president-elect has given the first signals of how he plans to shake up South America’s second-largest economy. Right-wing populist  Javier Milei is looking to privatize a slew of state-run companies after winning the country’s runoff presidential election on Sunday with 55.7%

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Nearly a month ago, the Israeli military unveiled a detailed 3D model of Gaza’s Shifa Hospital. It showed a series of underground installations that it said was part of an elaborate Hamas command and control center buried under the territory’s largest health-care center. Days after taking control