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By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — After months of political bickering, the parliament in NATO member and EU candidate Montenegro is set to vote Monday on a proposed new government that will hinge on support from pro-Russian and anti-Western groups. A recently formed centrist “Europe Now” coalition that advocates the small Balkan

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear downplayed party labels while campaigning Monday for a second term in Republican-leaning Kentucky, touting his role in creating jobs, improving roads and leading recovery from a series of disasters as rising above partisan politics. Starting the last full week of campaigning before

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Shootings across the U.S. over the weekend before Halloween have left at least 11 people dead and more than 70 injured, authorities said. The deaths between Friday and Sunday included two in Tampa, Florida, three in Texarkana, Texas, and two each in Dodge City, Kansas;

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s high court has suspended of the opposition’s entire primary election process, including its result. It is the latest challenge by the government of Nicolás Maduro to its adversaries ahead of the 2024 presidential election. The court on Monday ruled the opposition’s Oct. 22 contest

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer Colorado coach Deion Sanders believes the NCAA or the Rose Bowl should step in and reimburse his players for the items that went missing from the Buffaloes’ locker room while they played at No. 20 UCLA over the weekend. Police in Pasadena, California, continue to conduct interviews, review video

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus is doubling the existing 1,153-person capacity of its main migrant reception camp as the island nation prepares for potentially a large influx of people if the crisis in neighboring Israel and Gaza escalates, authorities said Monday. The Pournara reception camp — on the outskirts of the capital Nicosia — will

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Ontario-based Canadian Solar Inc. has announced plans to build an $800 million solar panel factory in southeastern Indiana that will employ about 1,200 workers once production is fully ramped up. Canadian Solar said Monday that it will build the new photovoltaic cell factory at the River Ridge Commerce Center in Jeffersonville,

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Google CEO Sundar Pichai has finally taken the stand in the biggest U.S. antitrust case in a quarter century. On Monday, he defended his company for paying Apple and others to make Google the default search engine on their devices. Pichai says Google simply wants to

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor has attacked the credibility of Sam Bankman-Fried’s testimony at his fraud trial, confronting him over whether he was truthful during his public appearances after FTX filed for bankruptcy last year. Assistant U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon confronted the FTX founder with questions aimed at showing

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — The new Slovak government has announced a “massive” deployment of police and armed forces along the border with Hungary to prevent growing numbers of migrants entering the country. Prime Minister Robert Fico says the move is planned to start late on Monday. He says that illegal migration must be brought under

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The gag order in Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case in Washington bars him and anyone else involved in the case from making public statements targeting prosecutors, court staff or “any reasonably foreseeable witness.” The order does not name potential witnesses who are

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Pilar has already caused two deaths in El Salvador as it meanders off the Pacific coast. Pilar is bringing the threat of flash flooding to El Salvador and other parts of Central America. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Monday that Pilar was located

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley reappeared Monday at the Statehouse where her political career began to file paperwork to participate in the South Carolina primary as she hopes to become the primary alternative in her party to former President Donald Trump. The former South Carolina governor, who

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell is dropping his bid to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley in 2024, and will instead make a run at a fellow Democrat — U.S. Rep. Cori Bush. Bell will oppose Bush in next year’s Democratic primary for a

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A 5.4 magnitude earthquake has hit Jamaica and prompted people to flee buildings amid heavy shaking that knocked out power in some areas. The tremor caused panic on the island Monday, but the prime minister says there have been no reports of deaths, injuries

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three foreign residents have been confirmed among the 47 dead from Hurricane Otis as the search for the missing focused on submerged boats that sunk in the storm. Mexico’s navy secretary said 29 boats were known to have sunk in Acapulco Bay and a crane would

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new study says that in a little more than five years the world will likely be unable to stay below the internationally agreed temperature limit for global warming if it continues to burn fossil fuels at its current rate. Monday’s study moves three years closer the date when

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — The European Commission’s top official says a decade-long investment package for Western Balkan countries that are seeking to join the bloc could vastly improve the region’s economy. But she also stressed that the assistance is conditioned on required reforms by these countries. EU Commission President

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A former British cyberespionage agency employee who viciously stabbed an American intelligence worker has been sentenced to life in prison for attempted murder. Joshua Bowles will have to serve at least 13 years in prison. He admitted attacking the woman March 9 in the western England town