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By KEVIN McGILL and SARA CLINE Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The toll from a series of crashes on a Louisiana interstate rose to eight dead and 63 injured Tuesday evening, a day after a “super fog” of marsh fire smoke and dense fog snared more than 160 vehicles in the fiery pileup, authorities

NEW YORK (AP) — A new digital audio edition of Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” will have a very well known narrator: former first lady Michelle Obama. HarperCollins Publishers announced Tuesday that the audio download will go on sale Oct. 31, the 60th anniversary of the book’s original release. Michelle Obama has read

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE, JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Authorities in Congo say extremists with ties to the Islamic State group killed at least 26 people in the country’s east. Attackers with the Allied Democratic Forces killed people in the city of Oicha in North Kivu province on Monday. Most of the victims

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey’s new book club pick highlights an author she has long admired, Jesmyn Ward. On Tuesday, Winfrey has selected Ward’s “Let Us Descend,” which comes out this week. “Let Us Descend” is a slave narrative set in the 19th century and follows a teenage

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Cruel joke for trick-or-treaters or coveted seasonal delight? The great Halloween debate over candy corn is on. In the pantheon of high-emotion candy, the shiny tricolor kernels in white, orange and yellow are way up there. Fans and foes alike point to the same attributes:

By AMY TEIBEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Eighty-five year-old Yocheved Lifschitz spoke of a “hell that we never knew before and never thought we would experience” as she described the harrowing assault on her kibbutz by Hamas militants and the terror of being taken hostage into the Gaza Strip. She spoke a day after

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers are raising new challenges to the federal election subversion case against him in Washington. The Trump lawyers are telling a judge the indictment should be dismissed because it violates the Republican former president’s free speech rights and represents a vindictive

By GERALD IMRAY and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Police in South Africa say a group of gold miners from an unregistered, rival union are holding hundreds of colleagues underground for the second day over a union dispute. The head of the mine says some 15 miners have been injured in scuffles. Details

LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) — The U.S. government is suspending most financial assistance to Gabon after a military coup earlier this year. State Department spokesperson Matthew Milller said in a statement that humanitarian aid will continue. The official coup d’etat designation comes nearly two months after President Ali Bongo Ondimba’s overthrow. Ondimba had served two terms

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI. Taiwan (AP) — Chinese state media are reporting that the country has replaced Defense Minister Gen. Li Shangfu. He has been out of public view for almost two months with little explanation. The announcement of Li’s removal was made Tuesday without further information being given. Li is the second

By CHANELLE BESSETTE of NerdWallet Systemic hurdles, lessons and messages from family, and the lived experience of your upbringing can shape your thoughts on money, especially if you spent a long time living without financial security. Once you’ve begun to earn enough to make ends meet, it can be hard to know how to change

By CLAIRE BRYAN of The Seattle Times math class chatgpt computer science For as long as Jake Price has been a teacher, Wolfram Alpha — a website that solves algebraic problems online — has threatened to make algebra homework obsolete. Teachers learned to work around and with it, said Price, assistant professor of mathematics and

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A strike by auto workers against General Motors is expected to cut pretax earnings by $800 million this year, and another $200 million per week after that, the company’s chief financial officer said. And those figures include only factories that are on strike now, so if

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Palestinian artist Nida Sinnokrot, one of 18 artists receiving the 2023 Soros Arts Fellowships from the Open Society Foundations on Tuesday, says that art provides hope and resilience, even in the midst of war. Members of this year’s class of Soros Arts Fellows, including Sinnokrot,

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The leaders of opposition parties that collectively won the most votes in Poland’s recent election say Donald Tusk is their candidate to be prime minister. Tusk is a former prime minister and former president of the European Council. Their announcement came before President Andrzej Duda opened

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan court has extended orders blocking the deployment of Kenyan police to Haiti to lead a U.N. Security Council-approved mission to combat gang violence in the Caribbean nation. The High Court on Tuesday said it would rule on the case on Nov. 9. Former presidential candidate Ekuru Aukot filed a

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court has upheld a ruling that favored the granting of equal inheritance rights to same-sex couples. It’s the latest victory for the city’s LGBTQ+ community. The decision by the Court of Appeal on Tuesday rejected the government’s appeal against the ruling that said

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s government says it will allow Lynas Rare Earths to continue to import and process rare earths until March 2026. Science Minister Chang Lih Kang said licensing conditions that called for the Australian miner to halt all activities producing radioactive waste have been lifted. That came after Lynas proposed a

By EGILL BJARNASON Associated Press HUSAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Women across Iceland, including the prime minister, went on strike Tuesday to push for an end to unequal pay and gender-based violence. Schools and shops closed after organizers called on women and nonbinary people to refuse paid and unpaid work for 24 hours. The strike comes