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Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — French Prime Minister Michel Barnier says he has postponed a provincial election in the restive Pacific territory of New Caledonia. Speaking during his inaugural address to parliament, Barnier said that local voting, scheduled for Dec. 15 will take place at the end of 2025. Barnier also said the controversial

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A dog clings to Hussein Hamza inside a car as he pans his camera around to show the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon. “Poor thing. Look at this, he’s clinging to me out of fear,” Hamza says in the video he posted online. “A missile hit here,”

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice presidential hopefuls Tim Walz and JD Vance focused their criticism on the top of the ticket on Tuesday as they engaged in a policy-heavy discussion that may be the last debate of the 2024 presidential campaign. It was the first encounter between Minnesota’s Democratic governor and Ohio’s Republican senator,

SPRUCE PINE, N.C. (AP) — Two North Carolina facilities that manufacture the high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors, solar panels and fiber optic cables have been shut down by Hurricane Helene. No reopening date is in sight. Sibelco and The Quartz Corp both shut down operations in the Appalachian town of Spruce Pine on Thursday.

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — County prosecutors have charged a California man with additional counts in a courthouse bomb attack that injured five people. Nathaniel McGuire has been charged with attempted murder and use of an explosive device with the intent to murder. It was not immediately known whether McGuire had an attorney for

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Federal prosecutors filed a new indictment Tuesday against two former Louisville officers accused of falsifying a warrant that led police to Breonna Taylor’s door before they fatally shot her. The Justice Department’s superseding indictment comes weeks after a federal judge threw out major felony charges against former Louisville Police Detective Joshua

ATLANTA (AP) — A medical examiner’s office in Georgia has confirmed that 33-year-old rapper Rich Homie Quan died from an accidental drug overdose. A spokesperson from the Fulton County medical examiner’s office said Wednesday that Quan, born Dequantes Devontay Lamar, died from a slew of drugs such as fentanyl, alprazolam, codeine and promethazine. Quan died

Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — India is one of the world’s largest producers and consumers of wheat and rice, but extreme weather is taking a toll on these vital crops. Research organizations in that country and around the world have worked for decades to evolve seeds that are better able to cope with drought,

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The International Olympic Committee’s three major Japanese sponsors — Toyota, Panasonic and Bridgestone — are terminating their contracts. TThis leaves the IOC without a Japanese sponsor with the focus now expected to shift to the Middle East and India for new sponsorship income. Japanese sponsors have turned away from the

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Mike Johnson is laying out a five-point policy agenda should Republicans take the majority next year. It includes extending the tax cuts approved when Donald Trump was president, reducing the size of the federal workforce and giving parents more choice on where they can send their children to school.