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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A massive lottery jackpot got a little bigger Friday as the top Powerball prize climbed to an estimated $825 million ahead of Saturday night’s drawing. The Powerball jackpot ranks as the fifth-largest in U.S. history, though it’s good to keep in mind that it has grown so large because no

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press CAMPO GRANDE, Brazil (AP) — President Jair Bolsonaro’s former agriculture minister has become the face of his campaign in Brazil’s agribusiness heartland — a part of the country where the conservative incumbent appears to be leading his leftist rival, ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.  Newly elected Senator  Tereza Cristina

By LEANNE ITALIE and FRED GOODALL Associated Press Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen have finalized their divorce, they announced Friday, ending the 13-year marriage between two superstars who respectively reached the pinnacles of football and fashion. Divorce documents were filed Friday in Glades County, Florida, a rural location near Lake Okeechobee far from the big-city

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure of inflation that is closely monitored by the Federal Reserve remained painfully high last month, the latest sign that prices for most goods and services in the United States are still rising steadily. Friday’s report from the Commerce Department showed that prices rose 6.2%

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A judge is expected to rule by next week on whether a former Michigan police officer who fatally shot a Black motorist in the back of the head during a struggle over a Taser will stand trial for second-degree murder. Grand Rapids District Court Judge Nicholas Ayoub said Friday during

By JILL BLEED and SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Authorities say the deaths of eight family members — including six children found in a burning Oklahoma home — are being investigated as a murder-suicide. Broken Arrow Police Chief Brandon Berryhill says the six children ranged in age from 1 to 13 and that the two adults

By SAM METZ Associated Press SOUTH JORDAN, Utah (AP) — U.S. Rep. Burgess Owens is scheduled to debate Democrat Darlene McDonald in suburban Salt Lake City on Friday in their first and only meeting in the lead-up to the midterm elections. The first-term Republican elected not to participate in a televised Utah Debate Commission event

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is imposing financial penalties on an Iranian-based organization that put a bounty on the head of British-American author Salman Rushdie, who was violently attacked in August at a literary event. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned the 15 Khordad Foundation, which issued a multimillion-dollar

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities have announced further rolling blackouts in and around the country’s largest cities amid ongoing Russian strikes targeting energy infrastructure. Ukrenergo, the sole operator of Ukraine’s high-voltage transmission lines, says “emergency outages” of four hours a day or more have resumed in the Kyiv region. The capital region’s governor says

MILAN (AP) — The surgeon who operated on soccer player Pablo Marí’s wounded back says being in top physical form helped the Spaniard avoid life-threatening injuries in a knife attack at an Italian shopping center. Niguarda hospital surgery and trauma director Osvaldo Chiara says “the surgery was a relatively simple one” since “there were only

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Elon Musk has taken over Twitter and fired its CEO and other top executives. Trading in company shares was suspended Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and the stock will be officially delisted early next month, according to a filing with securities regulators. So now what? WHY DID

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was severely beaten by an assailant who broke into their San Francisco home, and he’s being treated by doctors for injuries, according to people familiar with the matter. Pelosi, 82, suffered blunt force injuries in the attack, according

NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, who welcomed generations of worshippers as well as political leaders from across the nation and around the world at Harlem’s landmark Abyssinian Baptist Church, died Friday at age 73, the church announced. “The Butts Family and entire Abyssinian Baptist Church membership solicit your prayers for

NEW YORK (AP) — Most stocks are rising on Wall Street Friday, led by Apple, Exxon Mobil and other companies that made even bigger profits during the summer than expected. The S&P 500 was 0.7% higher and on pace to close out a second straight week of gains for the first time since August. The

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Officials say fighting has broken out between two groups at a migrant camp in Cyprus, a melee that left two people injured, set 20 tents ablaze and forced scores of families to flee the facility. Riot police had to use tear gas to restore order in the Pournara migrant reception center

By SAM METZ Associated Press SOUTH JORDAN, Utah (AP) — U.S. Rep. Burgess Owens is scheduled to debate Democrat Darlene McDonald in suburban Salt Lake City on Friday in their first and only meeting in the lead-up to the midterm elections. The first-term Republican elected not to participate in a televised Utah Debate Commission event

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists have put federal wildlife officials on notice they’re ready to take them back to court in a three-year-long fight over endangered species protection for a rare wildflower in Nevada. The Fish and Wildlife Service concluded last October that Thiem’s buckwheat was at risk of extinction

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Protesters have confronted security forces in a southeastern Iranian city that’s seen weeks of unrest amid nationwide demonstrations after the September death of a woman detained by the country’s morality police. The demonstrations in Zahedan were initially sparked by rape allegations against a police officer

BAGHDAD (AP) — Archaeologists in northern Iraq have unearthed 2,700-year-old rock carvings featuring war scenes and trees, dating back to the Assyrian Empire. A team of experts in Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, has been working to restore the site of the ancient Mashki Gate. The structure was bulldozed by Islamic State group militants in 2016.

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German economy grew in the third quarter, an unexpectedly positive performance powered largely by private spending. But the immediate outlook for Europe’s biggest economy remained gloomy, with inflation rising again in October. The Federal Statistical Office said Friday that gross domestic product in Europe’s biggest economy