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By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has successfully carried out the first of a series of key test flights after overcoming a technical glitch ahead of its planned mission to take astronauts into space in 2025. The space agency says the test involved launching a module to outer space and bringing

By MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press ___ Editor’s note: The Associated Press is publishing an updated visual analysis of the Oct. 17 explosion at Gaza’s Al-Ahli Hospital. The AP initially assessed that the explosion was likely caused by a rocket launched from within Gaza that misfired, and that assessment has not changed. However, new images that

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — It was a bad place to keep a secret. When Republicans gathered on Dec. 14, 2020, claiming to be legitimate electors casting the state’s 16 electoral votes for Donald Trump, they met at the Georgia Capitol in a room just upstairs from the building’s public entrance. A

By IGNACIO MARTÍNEZ and FERNANDO LLANO Associated Press CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Norma came ashore near the resorts of Los Cabos at the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula on Saturday afternoon, and hours later Hurricane Tammy made landfall on the Caribbean island of Barbuda. Both storms were Category 1 hurricanes

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press VALENCIA, Venezuela (AP) — Josselyz Essa and a friend, two 9-year-olds with a budding interest in politics as Venezuela starts toward its next presidential election, bubbled with eagerness waiting for the campaign rally to start. Then a thunderous noise spread over the crowd in the streets of the northern

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Swiss voters cast ballots to elect a parliament this weekend at a time when key concerns include rising healthcare costs, concerns about inflows of migrants and global warming, which has battered the country’s Alpine glaciers. Among the main stakes, if pollsters turn out to be right, are

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Charles Nahale spent a restless night trying to sleep in the back seat of his pickup truck after a wildfire destroyed his home and the town of Lahaina. The next two nights weren’t much better: The singer and guitarist put his feet on one chair and

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Houston’s next mayor will tackle many challenges similar to ones faced by other large U.S. cities: crime, crumbling infrastructure, budget shortfalls and a lack of affordable housing. Early voting for the Nov. 7 mayoral election starts Monday. Eighteen candidates are seeking to replace Mayor Sylvester Turner,

By DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Alek Thomas hit a tying, two-run homer in a three-run eighth inning, Gabriel Moreno followed with a go-ahead single and the Arizona Diamondbacks stunned the Philadelphia Phillies with a 6-5 victory that tied the NL Championship Series at two games apiece. Arizona trailed 5-2 before Orion

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Key West’s Fantasy Fest has begun. The 10-day schedule includes masquerades, elaborate parties and costume competitions. It kicked off Friday. The masking and costuming festival is themed “Uniforms & Unicorns: 200 Years Of Sailing Into Fantasy.” It salutes the Florida Keys’ 2023 bicentennial and that of the U.S. Navy’s presence

ROSEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Police have arrested two people in Nevada in connection to a Lake Tahoe-area attack that left a man dead and his wife in critical condition. One of the suspects, Danny Serafini, is a former professional baseball player. Serafini and Samantha Scott were arrested separately Friday, hundreds of miles apart. Robert Gary

By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has vetoed the core aspects of a bill passed by Congress that threatened to undo protections of Indigenous peoples’ land rights. The bill proposed to enshrine a legal theory arguing that the date Brazil’s Constitution was promulgated —

By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jose Altuve hit a three-run homer in the ninth inning and the Houston Astros, after getting into another bench-clearing scuffle with the Texas Rangers, rallied for a 5-4 victory in a wild and testy Game 5 of the AL Championship Series. After winning all three

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Denver prosecutors have asked a judge to dismiss a case against Marlon Wayans stemming from a luggage dispute with an airline employee. The Black actor and comedian says the employee targeted him because of his race. The city attorney’s office made the request in a court filing

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday he thought Hamas was motivated to attack Israel in part by a desire to stop that country from normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia. “One of the reasons … why Hamas moved on Israel, is because they knew I was about to sit

CHICAGO (AP) — The city of Chicago and the union representing its rank-and-file police officers have reached a tentative agreement on a four-year contract that would provide about a 20% raise for officers. The deal announced Friday extends the current contract by two years through June 30, 2027. It would double from 2.5% to 5%

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — No one will face criminal charges following a two-car crash in Tacoma, Washington that killed six Arizona residents in July. The Tacoma News Tribune reports that a three-month Washington State Patrol investigation of the July 15 crash determined the Arizona residents’ vehicle ran a red light when the crash occurred,. The

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — The death toll for the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century has increased by one, to 99, after Maui County police found additional remains in Lahaina. A police spokesperson said Friday the remains were recovered last week. An autopsy and forensic examination verified that the remains were not from

By ISABEL DEBRE and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — When the sun rose on Friday and the autumn heat baked the rotten debris on Gaza’s streets, Mohammed Elian emerged from the zipper hole of his new canvas home. He — and hundreds of other Palestinians displaced by the latest war

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — An assessment by French military intelligence indicates the most likely cause of the deadly explosion at Gaza City’s al-Ahli hospital was a Palestinian rocket that carried an explosive charge of about 5 kilograms (11 pounds) and possibly misfired, a senior French military official said Friday. Several rockets