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MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say police are investigating after a fire overnight in eastern Pakistan killed seven family members. The fire ignited at a house in Punjab province and the rescue service chief says Sunday that firefighters retrieved the charred bodies of seven family members, including a 65-year-old man and a 2-month-old infant. The

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has donated religious offerings to a Tokyo shrine viewed by Chinese and Koreans as a symbol of Japanese wartime aggression. Kishida did not visit Yasukuni Shrine, but donated “masakaki” religious ornaments to mark the shrine’s autumn festival. It was the first

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press/Report for America AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas lawmakers are on the brink of finishing redrawn U.S. House maps that would shore up their eroding dominance as voters peel away from the GOP in the state’s booming suburbs. The maps approved by the Texas House on Saturday night will now go

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz space capsule carrying a cosmonaut and two Russian filmmakers has landed after a 3 1/2-hour trip from the International Space Station. The capsule, descending under a red-and-white striped parachute after entering Earth’s atmosphere, landed upright in the steppes of Kazakhstan on schedule at 0435 GMT

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A group of 17 missionaries including children has been kidnapped by a gang in Haiti. That’s according to a voice message sent to various religious missions by an organization with direct knowledge of the incident. The message from Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries said the

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has designated the Mediterranean Shipping Company and others as parties of interest in an investigation into a vessel that was determined to be the source of an offshore pipeline leak in Southern California. Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board marine casualty investigators boarded a container

MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz space capsule carrying a cosmonaut and two Russian filmmakers has separated from the International Space Station and is heading for the Earth. The separation took place on schedule at 0115 GMT Sunday with Oleg Novitskiy, Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko aboard for a descent of about 3 1/2 hours. Actress

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Venezuela’s socialist government said it would suspend negotiations with its opponents in retaliation for the extradition to the U.S. of a close ally of President Nicolás Maduro to face money laundering charges. The announcement capped a tumultuous day that saw businessman Alex Saab placed on a U.S.-bound

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — An 11th-hour deal has been reached and a strike that would have shut down film and television productions across the U.S. was averted. The union representing most of the crew members who work on movies and TV shows reached a contract agreement Saturday with the

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Venezuela’s government says it will halt negotiations with opponents in retaliation for the extradition to the U.S. of a close ally of President Nicolas Maduro wanted on criminal charges. Jorge Rodríguez, who has been heading the government’s delegation in negotiations that started in August, said his team

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A top fugitive close to Venezuela’s socialist government has been put on a flight from Cape Verde to the United States to face money laundering charges. President Nicolás Maduro has blasted the U.S. for “kidnapping” Colombian businessman Alex Saab, and hours later Venezuelan security forces picked up

By HAVEN DALEY and LOU KESTEN Associated Press ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — A spokesman says Bill Clinton will spend one more night at a Southern California hospital where he is recovering from an infection. Spokesman Angel Ureña says Saturday that Clinton is making excellent progress. He’ll receive IV antibiotics before an expected release on Sunday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Warner Bros. has unveiled its trailer for “The Batman,” which features Robert Pattinson’s first bone-crunching turn as a DC Comics superhero. The trailer unveiled Saturday at the DC Fandome event shows Pattinson’s Dark Knight methodically taking down bad guys despite being outnumbered and his Batsuit absorbing multiple bullets. The footage teases

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A lawyer says Saturday that New York real estate heir Robert Durst has been hospitalized after contracting COVID-19. His hospitalization is just days since he was sentenced in a two-decade-old murder case. Defense Attorney Dick DeGuerin says he was notified that his client was admitted to a hospital after testing positive

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has offered to reinstate a professor who was acquitted of federal charges that accused him of hiding his relationship with a Chinese university while receiving NASA research grants. According to an Oct. 14 letter obtained by the Knoxville News Sentinel, Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A senior U.S. official says that a top fugitive close to Venezuela’s socialist government has been put on a plane to the U.S. to face money laundering charges. Alex Saab was on a chartered Justice Department flight from Cape Verde, where he was arrested 16 months ago

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (AP) — Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil has broken ribs during a fall off the stage at a concert in Tennessee. In video footage from the performance Friday, Neil can be seen clapping at the edge of the stage with his guitar strapped around him before his fall. Neil’s guitarist later told

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man who was 13 years old when he killed a 4-year-old boy with a rock has been granted parole. State corrections officials said Saturday that Eric Smith appeared for the 11th time before the parole board earlier this month and was granted release as early as Nov. 17.

By JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Standing in front of the Capitol, President Joe Biden paid tribute on Saturday to fallen police officers and honored those who fought off the Jan. 6 insurrection at that very site. Biden said that because of the actions of law enforcement officers on that day, “democracy survived.”