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By The Associated Press The Astros and Phillies travel Friday to Texas, where Game 6 of the World Series will be played a night later. Houston is on the brink of its second title after winning 3-2 in Philadelphia on Thursday night to take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven Fall Classic. The Astros’ 2017

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Shares soared more than 7% in Hong Kong on Friday after a Communist Party newspaper reported that local officials were being urged not to impose overly burdensome controls to curb coronavirus infections. The Shanghai Composite index jumped 2.5% as sentiment also was buoyed by an article

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — When Planned Parenthood decided four years ago to open a new clinic in a medically underserved working-class neighborhood here, it envisioned a place that would save women living nearby from having to take hourslong bus rides to obtain birth control, testing or an abortion. The

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is facing the possibility of having more penalties heaped onto the amount he owes relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The punitive damages phase of his Connecticut trial began Friday. A jury last month ordered Jones and his

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A moderately strong earthquake has struck Turkey’s western province of Izmir, causing panic among residents and toppling the minaret of a mosque. The country’s disaster management agency said the 4.9-magnitude earthquake was centered in Izmir’s Buca district and struck at 3:29 a.m. on Friday. The quake was followed by several aftershocks

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday told supporters “we’re gonna free Iran” after audience members appeared to call on him to address the ongoing protests that have spread through that country in the aftermath of the death of a young woman in the custody of its security

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. jobs report for October will be closely watched Friday for any indication that employers are slowing their hiring — a prospect the Federal Reserve would likely welcome as a sign that the high inflation that is gripping the economy might soon begin to ease.

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and AMY TAXIN Associated Press OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) — President Joe Biden is urging voters to go to the polls to support Democratic candidates, warning that a Republican Congress would reshape America by cutting back on health care and threatening abortion rights. Speaking in San Diego County, California, at an evening

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Friday led by a 5.8% jump in Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index as Chinese markets were lifted by speculation that Beijing might begin to ease pandemic restrictions. Tokyo’s Nikkei fell, catching up after Japan’s markets were closed Thursday for

BEIJING (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday for a one-day visit that has drawn criticism over China’s tacit support for Russia in its war on Ukraine and lingering controversies over economic ties and human rights issues. Scholz, who is traveling with several top German business

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Chis Pappas has accused his Republican challenger of treating politics as a performance without offering solutions to problems, while Karoline Leavitt has accused the Democratic incumbent of being a partisan problem creator during their third and last debate. The candidates for New Hampshire’s 1st

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — TV icon Oprah Winfrey is endorsing Democrat John Fetterman in Pennsylvania’s hotly contested Senate race and rejecting Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz. Winfrey helped launch Oz to stardom nearly two decades ago when she brought the heart surgeon on her popular daytime talk show as a regular

SEATTLE (AP) — A judge in Washington state has temporarily stopped Albertsons from paying a $4 billion dividend to investors as part of the grocery retailer’s proposed merger with rival Kroger. The Seattle Times reported Thursday that King County Superior Court Commissioner Henry Judson approved a motion by state Attorney General Bob Ferguson to block

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A divided Washington Supreme Court has approved a registered sex offender’s application to become an attorney in the state — though the man says he’s not sure he’ll wind up practicing law after all. Zachary Leroy Stevens has been living in Arizona, where he attended law school.

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning that the planet is heading toward irreversible “climate chaos.” And he is urging global leaders at the upcoming UN climate summit in Egypt to put the world back on track to cut emissions, keep promises on climate financing and

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A massage therapist who says Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her after she worked on him in 2010 insisted from the witness stand at his Los Angeles trial that she has not changed her account of the incident. Weinstein attorney Mark Werksman said that from her

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal appellate court on Wednesday said a national beauty pageant has a First Amendment right to exclude a transgender woman from competing because including her could interfere with the message the pageant has said it wants to send about “what it means to be a