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By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Every seat in the New Jersey Legislature is up for grabs in Tuesday’s general election. With solid Democratic majorities in both chambers, party control of the body is not expected to change hands. Democrats have a 25-15 advantage in the state Senate and a 46-34 lead in

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Topping the list of notable races in Tuesday’s general election in Texas are the mayoral races in Houston and Uvalde. In Houston, the crowded field of candidates includes longtime U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and state Sen. John Whitmire. In Uvalde, the candidates include the mother of

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities say Russia unleashed a wave of nighttime drone and missile attacks across 10 of Ukraine’s 24 regions. They say they’re getting ready for another winter of infrastructure bombardment by the Kremlin’s forces. Ukraine’s air force said it intercepted 24 of 38 Shahed drones and

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in Tuesday’s general election in Pennsylvania will fill a vacant state Supreme Court seat that could play a significant role on voting-related cases during the 2024 presidential campaign. The court has a 4-2 Democratic majority, so the outcome of this race will not determine partisan control.

Norwegian police say the husband of former Prime Minister Erna Solberg, will not face investigation over his stock trading during her two terms in office. Norway’s economic crimes agency said Friday that it found no indications that he benefited from inside information. Solberg was prime minister from 2013 to 2021. She has faced political and

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters throughout Connecticut will elect mayors in Tuesday’s off-year general election. The race in Bridgeport takes place in the shadow of a complicated legal drama. A state judge on Wednesday ordered a redo of the Sept. 12 Democratic primary in Bridgeport after reviewing evidence of possible illegal

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police in Pakistan say a bomb planted in a parked motorcycle exploded near a police vehicle in the country’s northwest and killed at least five people. Police officer Gul Sher Khan said the attack happened in the city of Dera Ismail on Friday. He says the motorcycle was parked near a

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state media say a court has sentenced a woman to death for adultery. The IRAN newspaper says the woman worked as a trainer in a gym for females. It says her husband contacted police in 2022 when he found her with another man at their home. Under Iranian law, she

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Transportation Department  is awarding $653 million in grants to upgrade and improve 41 water-based ports across the United States. The grants awarded on Friday are part of the $1 trillion in infrastructure investments made possible by a bipartisan law signed by President Joe Biden in 2021. Biden administration officials say the

By ASHOK SHARMA and PIYUSH NAGPAL Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — New Delhi’s government has shut primary schools and banned polluting vehicles and construction work in an attempt to reduce the worst haze and smog of the season. Authorities deployed water sprinklers and anti-smog guns to control the haze that enveloped high-rise buildings around

BERLIN (AP) — A small plane flying from Croatia to Salzburg has crashed in Austria, killing four people. Police say the aircraft crashed Thursday afternoon near Lintsching in Austria’s Salzburg province. It had taken off from the Croatian capital, Zagreb, about two hours earlier. Police say the bodies of the four people were recovered from

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Record-breaking rain produced floods in a vast swath of Italy’s Tuscany region as Storm Ciarán pushed into the country overnight, trapping residents in their homes, inundating hospitals and overturning cars. At least six people in Italy and one person in Albania were killed on Friday, bringing the

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street steamrolled even higher Friday as it closed out its best week in nearly a year. The S&P 500 climbed 40.56 points, or 0.9%, to 4,358.34 and rose every day of the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 222.24, or 0.7%, to 34,061.32,

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Dubai-based television network broadcasting across the Middle East cut substantial portions of an episode of the satiric news program “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” over references to Saudi Arabia’s crown prince being implicated in the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

By JIM GOMEZ and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The leaders of Japan and the Philippines have agreed to start negotiations for a key defense pact that will allow their troops to enter each other’s territory for joint military exercises. The move is part of efforts to fortify their alliance in the

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A magnitude 5.1 earthquake rattled a Greek island near Athens, but no injuries or serious damage were immediately reported. The quake occurred under land Friday morning near the town of Mantoudi on the island of Evia. That’s about 55 miles north of Athens and was felt in the Greek capital. Authorities

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The watchdog office overseeing the National Science Foundation is sending investigators to Antarctica’s McMurdo Station after hearing concerns about the prevalence of sexual violence at the U.S. research base. Meanwhile, the foundation said it’s furthering its own efforts to address the problem. It announced Friday

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A fire at a drug rehabilitation center in northern Iran has killed at least 32 people, according to Iranian state media. State TV said 17 other people were injured and taken to hospitals in the city of Langroud. The TV report said the fire started early Friday morning and the private

By JOSEF FEDERMAN, BASSEM MROUE and LEE KEATH Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday pushed back against growing U.S. pressure for a “humanitarian pause” in the nearly month-old war to protect civilians and allow more aid into Gaza, insisting there would be no temporary cease-fire until the

MORWELL, Australia (AP) — A woman accused of serving her ex-husband’s parents and an aunt poisonous mushrooms with lunch has appeared in an Australian court. She’s been charged with three counts of murder and five of attempted murder. Erin Patterson did not enter pleas when she appeared Friday in a local court in Morwell in