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REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Damage assessment teams went out Saturday to determine how many buildings have burned in a forest fire that has displaced thousands of residents in Northern California. Firefighters working in steep, drought-stricken terrain hope calmer weather over the next few days will help as they battle the Fawn Fire north of the

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Matt Amodio’s historic run on “Jeopardy!” has now netted him more than $1 million in non-tournament play, making him the third person in the show’s history to pass that mark. The only other contestants to win more than $1 million in regular season games are

By SARAH BLAKE MORGAN Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — An Ohio man is among those who made their way to the Texas border city of Del Rio, where thousands of Haitian migrants set up camp near a border bridge, including many seeking asylum. Dave, who didn’t want to give his last name because

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — More than 100 officials of Tunisia’s Islamist party Ennahdha have announced their resignations to protest their leadership’s inability to confront the nation’s political crisis. The split within the ranks of Ennahdha comes amid deep political crisis in Tunisia. President Kaïs Saied decided in July to sack the country’s prime minister, suspend

DENVER, Colo. (AP) — A report from Colorado investigators says a 6-year-old girl who died in a fall from a theme park ride this month wasn’t wearing the seat belts, and operators of the vertical drop ride didn’t properly check the restraints. The report released Friday from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment details

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press New York City schools have been temporarily blocked from enforcing a vaccine mandate for its teachers and other workers by a federal appeals judge days before it was to take effect. The mandate for the the nation’s largest school system was set to go into effect Monday. But late Friday,

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Amid an outcry over the U.S. treatment of Haitian asylum-seekers, the beleaguered island country’s embattled prime minister is pointedly saying that inequalities drive migration. But Ariel Henry stopped short of directly criticizing Washington over the issue in a speech Saturday to the U.N. General Assembly’s annual

MOSCOW (AP) — About 400 demonstrators gathered in central Moscow to protest alleged tampering in the national parliament election in which the dominant pro-Kremlin party retained a constitutional majority. The Saturday demonstration at Pushkin Square was organized by the Communist Party, which increased its seats in the State Duma in the election but is contesting

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A third federal judge has blocked Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s order allowing families to opt out of school mask mandates. The decision is the latest development in the ongoing legal battle over Lee’s order launched by parents and advocates alarmed over the spike in coronavirus cases

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi will soon start rebuilding a section of highway that collapsed during torrential rainfall brought by Hurricane Ida. Two people were killed and nine were injured Aug. 30 as seven vehicles plunged, one after another, into a deep pit that opened up on the dark stretch of Mississippi Highway 26 near

DUNMORE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say four teenagers have been charged with a plot to attack a Pennsylvania high school in 2024 on the 25th anniversary of the massacre at Colorado’s Columbine High School. The Times-Tribune of Scranton reported Friday that police say a 15-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy are charged as adults and

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The most closely watched attempt by Republicans to examine the 2020 presidential election came to an embarrassing end this week in Arizona, but efforts to conduct more are cranking up elsewhere. The most recent is in Republican-controlled Texas, where the secretary of state’s office announced it

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden is losing support among critical groups in his political base as a Democratic-controlled Washington struggles to deliver on core campaign promises. The shift threatens to make a difficult political situation on the left even worse heading into next year’s midterm elections.

By MALLIKA SEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi didn’t directly mention Pakistan or China in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly, but the targets of his address were clear. On Saturday, he called upon the international community to help Afghanistan and said that it was imperative the

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST, TERRY TANG and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The disappearance of Gabby Petito has drawn a frenzy of coverage and brought new attention to a phenomenon known as “missing white woman syndrome.” Many advocates for missing people of color question why the public spotlight that is so

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says her country will take steps to repair ties with South Korea, and may even discuss another summit between their leaders, if the South drops what she described as hostility and double standards. The comments