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NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities are investigating a New York City high-rise fire that injured over three dozen people and was traced to a faulty lithium-ion battery. The Red Cross said Sunday it provided temporary lodging and some emergency funds to two people displaced by Saturday’s fire. The blaze spurred a dramatic rope rescue 20

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis called female genital mutilation a “crime” on Sunday and said the fight for women’s rights, equality and opportunity must continue for the good of society. “How is it that today in the world we cannot stop the tragedy of infibulation of young

By DAVID CRARY and HOLLY MEYER Associated Press Across America, faith leaders have squeezed in some final messages about the midterm elections during their worship services this weekend. Some passionately took stands on divisive issues such as immigration and abortion; others pleaded for an easing of the political polarization fracturing their communities and their nation.

By ELEANOR REICH Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s outgoing prime minister has issued a plea for national unity, days after he was defeated in national elections by the former premier, Benjamin Netanyahu. In a memorial ceremony for the assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, outgoing Prime Minister Yair Lapid warned of the deep divisions plaguing

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — With his party’s control over Congress teetering on the brink, President Joe Biden has traveled the country this fall trying to turn the midterm elections into a choice between two visions for America. On Tuesday, voters will decide whether to stick with his outlook or

By SAM METZ Associated Press Asian Americans have emerged as a critical constituency for Republicans and Democrats in electoral battlegrounds. Take Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District, where second-term Democratic Rep. Susie Lee faces a challenge from Republican April Becker. Both are testing whether campaigning on crime, inflation and abortion resonate in predominantly Asian American communities. These

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are eyeing major gains in Tuesday’s elections and appealing to supporters over the final weekend of the 2022 campaign to punish Democrats for high inflation and crime rates that have risen in some places. President Joe Biden and his two most recent Democratic predecessors said the

CAIRO (AP) — The head of Amnesty International says that the proceedings of COP27 will be stained by the death of one of Egypt’s leading rights activists on a hunger and water strike in prison if Egyptian authorities do not release him within days. Speaking in Cairo Sunday, Amnesty’s chief said the government had no

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Dr. Frank Annie sees desperation in his hospital, where 30- and 40-year-olds come in with organ failure after injecting opioids with dirty needles. Joe Solomon finds it in the faces of those who line up in the church gyms and parking lots where he passes out

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A small passenger plane crashed Sunday morning into Lake Victoria on approach to an airport in Tanzania, and the country’s prime minister says 19 people on board were killed. Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa gave the new death toll, up from three. Earlier, local authorities said 26 of those on the Precision

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Changes are coming to state capitols across the country. Heading into the November elections, more than one-quarter of incumbent state lawmakers already are guaranteed to be gone from office next year. Retirements are up during the first election since districts were redrawn based on the 2020 census. Other incumbents

By GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — It’s been an electoral campaign without rallies, demonstrations or even real opposition. Now Nicaragua’s governing party is hoping to expand Sunday on the 141 of Nicaragua’s 153 municipalities that it already controls. President Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista National Liberation Front is approaching single-party status in Nicaragua. In

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

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Scientists use old fashioned detective work to figure out that humans are responsible for climate change. They eliminate other suspects such as the sun or volcanoes. They also find the specific chemical fingerprint of fossil fuel burning in the air. Toss in some complicated chemistry, physics and even math,

By DANA BELTAJI Associated Press As the world warms and extreme weather events mount, governments and corporations have been called on to address climate change by top officials, climate scientists and activists and to curb levels of heating. From cutting the planet’s reliance to fossil fuels to exploring new energy sources and ways of sucking

BY DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer Climate action has become a much discussed topic around the world, but can individual actions make a difference in how much carbon dioxide is emitted on an international scale? International organizations like the United Nations have called on individuals to limit their carbon footprint and live more sustainably, as

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press GUADALUPE, Ariz. (AP) — The turnout machine that left-leaning Latino activists have built since Arizona enacted a tough crackdown on immigrants will be put to the test in Tuesday’s election. High inflation and economic worries threaten to stall the progress Democrats have made in a state long controlled by

MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) — Several thousand ethnic Serbs have rallied in Kosovo as a dispute over vehicle license plates heightened ongoing tensions between Serbia and its former province. The government’s decision to gradually ban Serbia-issued license plates has angered Kosovo Serbs, most of whom do not recognize Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence. Members of the