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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Officials in Mexico say a fireworks explosion at a Day of the Dead celebration injured 17 people. The accident occurred Saturday in the township of Huejutla in Mexico’s Gulf coast region known as the Huasteca. The Huejutla municipal government said Sunday that residents of the village of Tehuetlan were celebrating the

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City prosecutors say an autopsy on a local woman found dead in the neighboring state of Morelos shows she was killed by blunt force trauma. The announcement Sunday contradicts a Morelos state forensic exam that suggested the woman choked on her own vomit as a result of intoxication. The contrasting

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Better catch the moon’s disappearing act Tuesday — there won’t be another like it for three years. The total lunar eclipse will be visible throughout North America in the predawn hours — the farther west, the better — and across Asia, Australia and the

WINCHESTER, Va. (AP) — A federal trial for a Virginia Civil War reenactor accused of planting a pipe bomb at a Virginia battlefield and threatening to disrupt other events has been set for next year. Gerald Leonard Drake had been on the docket for a jury trial in U.S. District Court for the Western District

IDLIB, Syria (AP) — First responders and opposition war monitors say Syrian government forces have shelled tent settlements housing families displaced by the country’s conflict in the rebel-held northwest, killing at least 10 people and wounding dozens. Sunday’s shelling is the latest violation of a truce reached between Russia and Turkey in March 2020. It

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say four people remain in critical condition following a shooting that wounded nine people on a busy northeast Philadelphia street over the weekend. Police said several people emerged from a vehicle and opened fire on a crowd at Kensington and Allegheny avenues in the Kensington neighborhood at about 10:45 p.m. Saturday.

By BILL BARROW and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — After spending months arguing that Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker is “not ready” for high elected office, Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia is intensifying his critique ahead of Election Day to say the celebrity athlete is fundamentally unfit for Capitol Hill. From a rally

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The mayor of Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, is warning residents that they must prepare for the worst this winter if Russia keeps striking the country’s energy infrastructure — and that means having no electricity, water or heat in the freezing cold cannot be ruled out. “We are

BARRE, Mass. (AP) — A two hour ceremony was held in Massachusetts on Saturday to mark the symbolic return of about 150 items considered sacred by the Sioux peoples that had been stored at a small Massachusetts museum for more than a century. The ceremony included representatives of the Oglala Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux

WINCHESTER, Va. (AP) — A federal trial for a Virginia Civil War re-enactor accused of planting a pipe bomb at a Virginia battlefield and threatening to disrupt other events has been set for next year. Gerald Leonard Drake had been on the docket for a jury trial in U.S. District Court for the Western District

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities say more than two dozen people were injured when a commercial building in the capital caught fire and collapsed. The official Iraqi News Agency says the country’s civil defense director and some firefighters were among those injured when the burning building Sunday in Baghdad. No deaths have been reported and

HANOVER, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say they still don’t know what caused several dozen children and adults to fall ill at an eastern Pennsylvania school last week, prompting an evacuation. Chief Scott Van Why of the Hanover Township Volunteer Fire Department told The (Allentown) Morning Call on Sunday that tests of the air turned up

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Georgia tightened its hold on No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll Sunday, with TCU climbing up to No. 4 and Alabama dropping all the way to No. 10. The Bulldogs had their strongest support of the season after manhandling Tennessee in a 1-2 matchup

DENVER (AP) — A man convicted of using an AK-47 to kill a woman and wound her boyfriend as they walked their dog has been sentenced to life in prison. A judge sentenced Michael Close on Friday to a life term without the possibility of parole in the death of Isabella Thallas, 21, and added

NEW YORK (AP) — The day after 34-year-old singer Aaron Carter was found dead at his home in Southern California, Nick Carter, the Backstreet Boys member, remembered his younger brother, saying that despite “a complicated relationship,” his love for him “never ever faded.” In a posting Sunday on Instagram with photos of the two through

By WILL WEISSERT and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Republicans are eyeing major gains in Tuesday’s elections and appealing to supporters over the campaign’s final weekend to punish Democrats for high inflation and crime rates that have risen in some parts of the country. President Joe Biden and his two most recent

By COLLEEN BARRY and SALVATORE CAVALLI Associated Press CATANIA, Sicily (AP) — The captain of a charity-run migrant rescue ship refused Italian orders to leave a Sicilian port Sunday after authorities refused to let 35 of the migrants on his ship disembark — part of directives by Italy’s new far-right-led government targeting foreign-flagged rescue ships.