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Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian authorities have released 29 children who have been detained for over two months and potentially faced the death penalty for their alleged participation in protests against the country’s record cost-of-living crisis following growing calls for their release. The children, aged 14 to 17, looked excited and full of

Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Democrats have defended control of the Michigan Supreme Court after an expensive campaign season with reproductive rights as a key issue. Republicans needed to win both seats up for election to flip the Democrats’ 4-3 majority. Court races are nonpartisan, but candidates are nominated at party conventions. Democrats and allies

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Army soldier who was injured in May while working on the American-built pier to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza has died. Sgt. Quandarius Stanley was a motor transport operator and was critically injured when high winds and heavy seas damaged the pier, causing four Army vessels to become beached. Two

AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In a new video posted early Election Day, Beyoncé channels Pamela Anderson in the television program “Baywatch” – red one-piece swimsuit and all – and asks viewers to vote. In the two-and-a-half-minute clip, set to most of “Bodyguard,” a four-minute cut from her 2024 country album “Cowboy Carter,”

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The National Weather Service reports four likely tornadoes and possibly more in northeastern Oklahoma and northwestern Arkansas with no deaths or injuries reported. Meteorologist Joe Sellars with the weather service in Tulsa said investigators are in Muskogee, Sequoyah and Adair counties in Oklahoma and Benton County, Arkansas, to confirm that tornadoes

Associated Press Peter Ames Carlin writes a cultural history of the rock bank in “The Name of This Band is R.E.M.” The Associated Press’ Andrew DeMillo writes that Carlin’s book is a poetic meditation on what made so many of R.E.M.’s songs stand out and remain resonant today. Carlin’s book offers plenty of behind the

Aircraft assembly workers at Boeing factories near Seattle and elsewhere ended a seven-week strike overnight. Over the last few years, organized labor drew a line in the sand, demanding more pay and better benefits during negotiations. Union leaders demanded that U.S. companies make good after what they viewed as sacrifices made by workers during turbulent,

Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani officials said on Tuesday they were aware the Maldives government had recalled its ambassador to Pakistan after he met with the Afghan Taliban government’s top diplomat in Islamabad without clearing it with his government. The Maldives does not recognize the Taliban government which seized power in August 2021 as

BRAMPTON, Ontario (AP) — A Hindu temple near Toronto where violence erupted over the weekend was the site of another demonstration Monday night that police broke up. Police said weapons were spotted in the crowd. Peel Regional Police say in social media updates that the Pro India demonstration in Brampton, Ontario was declared an unlawful

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Edinburgh Zoo has launched a cuteness contest between Haggis, its newborn pygmy hippo, and Moo Deng, the adorable mini hippopotamus that became a viral sensation at a Thailand zoo this summer. “Moo Deng? Who deng?” the Scottish zoo playfully posted Monday on the social media platform X. Moo Deng,

Associated Press PARIS (AP) — As dusk falls over the City of Light, a new spectacle is illuminating Saint-Sulpice church, a monument whose interiors are even larger than Notre Dame’s. The cavernous walls of the neoclassical gem on Paris’ Left Bank are coming alive with 360-degree video projections, sparkling cutting-edge technology and actors, all telling

Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s foreign minister says she raised allegations with her Indian counterpart that India has targeted Sikh activists in Canada. Foreign Minister Penny Wong said she discussed the Canadian allegations with Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar while he was in Australia on Tuesday. India has denied Canada’s allegation that India’s

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — It’s tough being a reporter in Cambodia, whose government frowns on independent journalism that questions authority. Veteran investigative reporter Mech Dara learned the hard way, when he was recently jailed on a felony charge for some items he had posted on Facebook. Now he plans to be a farmer despite