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Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has voted to extend the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping force in the  Western Sahara for another year Thursday with Algeria refusing to vote in protest at the resolution’s failure to include a reference to monitoring human rights in the disputed north African territory. The

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Gulf Coast, battered by a mammoth oil spill more than a decade ago and left bereft by years of subsequent flooding, will have its first oyster season since 2018. The oyster season will open at sunrise, Nov. 13, in eight harvesting areas, but will last only 10 days, the

Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Donald Trump met with Arab Americans in the nation’s largest Arab-majority city as the Republican presidential nominee works to court the potentially decisive group despite his history of Islamophobic rhetoric and policy. Trump was greeted with cheers and applause Friday from a modest crowd at The Great Commoner restaurant

SEATTLE (AP) — The union representing striking Boeing factory workers says members will vote Monday on a new contract offer from the company that provides slightly bigger wage increases than an offer that was rejected last week. Boeing ‘s latest offer would raise wages 38% over four years, or a compounded increase of about 43%,

Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis says that the state is providing aircraft and vehicles to help with changing voting system passwords that were accidentally leaked on a state website. The passwords were mistakenly left on a spreadsheet on the secretary of state’s website for months. Local, state and federal

AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The CEO of PEN America has stepped down after more than a decade marked by substantial growth and recent controversy. Suzanne Nossel announced her departure Thursday. She will be heading the pro-democracy organization Freedom House starting in January. Nossel and the leadership at PEN have been widely criticized

ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) — A winged creature from Oregon was crowned this year’s winner Thursday in an annual bat beauty contest put on by the Bureau of Land Management. On Halloween, which was also the last day of International Bat Week, a hoary bat with a feisty personality named “Hoary Potter” defeated “Lestat”, the western

WASHINGTON (AP) — Third-party presidential candidate Cornel West has lost a Supreme Court bid to be included on the presidential ballot in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania. Justice Samuel Alito refused his emergency appeal in a brief order Thursday. Alito handles appeals originating in Pennsylvania. The liberal academic would likely draw more votes away

Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Survivors of a deadly walkway collapse at a state-run ferry dock on a Georgia island said Thursday that the government should help them pay for funerals for the seven people who died as well as medical bills and mental health counseling for those who lived. Lawmakers on the Georgia

Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s new law categorizing two widely used abortion drugs as controlled dangerous substances is being challenged in a state court lawsuit by a physician, a pharmacist, two women who had difficult pregnancies and others. The lawsuit filed Thursday in Baton Rouge says the law sets up needless, dangerous

Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A Marine investigation blamed the pilot of an advanced fighter jet for ejecting from the aircraft when he didn’t need to, causing the F-35 to fly unmanned for 11 minutes before it crashed in rural South Carolina last year. Military officials could not find the jet or its wreckage

MONTREAL (AP) — More than 45 nations signed a pledge in Montreal to repatriate to Ukraine the civilians, prisoners of war and children taken by Russia since it invaded the country. Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says the countries agreed to co-ordinate efforts to gather information about Ukrainians held in Russia and to create

Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The city of St. Petersburg will spend about $6.5 million to clean up and protect Tropicana Field, the home of baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays that was heavily damaged by Hurricane Milton. The translucent fiberglass dome of the ballpark was shredded by the storm Oct. 9, leaving in doubt

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and South Korea have called on China to use its influence over Russia and North Korea to prevent escalation after Pyongyang sent thousands of troops to Russia to aid Moscow’s war against Ukraine. Beijing has so far stayed quiet. In a rare meeting earlier this week, three top

The amount of the powerful climate-changing gas methane spilling out of oil and gas equipment, coal mines and landfills globally is nowhere near fully documented and what is known is “only scratching the surface” according to the CEO of one the companies that tracks methane with its own satellites. Rather than improving, the methane emissions