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The NBA season tips off Tuesday, and it could have been a celebration in Seattle if the Sonics' return was on the horizon.

Iran’s leaders clearly relish the political damage President Trump has suffered from the conflict he launched in late February, even as their own economy suffers extreme stress.

Online services for a number of U.K. banks in and around London are being disrupted by a Google Cloud outage.

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Poll chaplains and lay peacekeepers have maintained a calm presence over the last few election cycles.

A battery system that stores excess energy when it’s plentiful will power an apartment building in Buffalo, New York, when the grid is strained and electricity is costly.

Preseason speculation hardly ever means anything.

An Israeli attack on a Gaza apartment has killed two people and injured others.

China has criticized a U.S. ban on AI startup DeepSeek for federal civilian agencies, highlighting tensions in the tech race between the two countries.

A senior Yemeni official says that a Houthi missile strike on a government military camp in southern Yemen has killed 73 people, all new recruits.

Officials say Russia has launched another missile and drone attack on Ukraine and that at least seven people have been killed.

A South African court has denied bail to former deputy police chief Shadrack Sibiya, who faces charges of sexual offenses.

South Korea says it will withdraw some staff from its embassy in Kyiv, deepening a diplomatic row over Ukraine’s announcement last month of a transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war that Seoul says was meant to be secret.

Police have charged a driver with intentionally causing serious injury to Australian lawmaker Helen Haines.

Voters in Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta have rejected a proposal to begin a process toward independence.

The Halloween-themed episodes of “The Simpsons” have always been a treat of spooky stand-alone storylines.

Florida is set to carry out its 18th execution this year under Republican Gov.

President Donald Trump is hoping $5,000 checks can boost Republican turnout in the midterm elections.

The effort by the Trump administration comes as it wages a broader fight with California officials over voter rolls.

U.S. futures are mostly lower as artificial-intelligence-related stocks are under pressure again and oil prices rise while fighting continues in the Middle East.

Yandy Díaz’s bat backed up his boast, and the Tampa Bay Rays are headed to the World Series again.

President Donald Trump indicated his focus would be on denuclearization efforts rather than ending the war in Ukraine.

Vice President JD Vance has declined to endorse Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection a day after President Donald Trump endorsed the embattled Israeli leader.

The man had been detained at an immigration center in Laredo, Texas, since June.

Questions about safety at Braun Northwest have become a flashpoint in a Southwest Washington district grappling with a deadly tank collapse at a Longview mill.

After a school shooting in which the 16-year-old attacker died, there are few ways to pin official blame.

Abraham Logan allegedly tried to break up a fight before being shot and killed, according to charging documents.

The letter is the latest in a series of suspicious mailings received at political offices.

A Colombian judge ordered the nation’s government to protect more than 30 historical artifacts that officials removed from exhibits in Bogota’s national museum last week.

Washington State’s offense is looking better, but that group may not be at full strength this weekend when it hosts No. 21 Boise State.

The Seahawks could have two key pieces back when the undefeated Chiefs come to town as RB Zach Charbonnet might return as well as guard Anthony Bradford.

The police’s treatment of the student last month sheds light on how a wave of school unrest evolved into national protests that spilled into widespread riots on Saturday.

Activists want the state to divest pension funds from artificial intelligence and data analytics company Palantir, over the firm’s ties to the Israeli military.

Ending routine vaccination for hepatitis B at birth, as the health secretary has recommended, would increase the number of chronic infections by as much as 83 percent, a team of researchers reported.

Beloved character actor Richard Riehle has died at 78.

As Meta prepares to release new wearables, privacy fears surrounding its artificial intelligence glasses have triggered fresh lawsuits.

Attorney General Todd Blanche is blurring traditional boundaries between politics and federal law enforcement with speeches at political events that depart from longstanding norms meant to protect the Justice Department from the appearance of partisan bia…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has welcomed leaders from seven regional countries for talks on deepening cooperation.

Vice President JD Vance is heading to Iowa for the second time this year to campaign for Republican majorities in Congress.

Warren Buffett is stepping down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway after serving in the role for more than 50 years.

Jon Stewart says he never planned to focus his charity work on first responders and their families, but it grew organically.

Police in Nigeria have fired tear gas at protesters demanding justice for 37 miners who died in custody.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has proposed making Canada the first "associate member" of the European Union.

Officials say a powerful bomb has exploded at a mosque near a building housing police offices in northwestern Pakistan.

Hundreds of Ugandans have demonstrate outside the Turkish Embassy to demand the extradition of dissident Fred Lumbuye.

Rescue teams in Indonesia have recovered three bodies from a capsized ferry.

A shooting at a high school in the southern Philippines on Friday has left at least three young people dead and six others injured, including the gunman.

Police in Malawi say four suspects were fatally shot in the operation that rescued a British woman who was kidnapped.

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians are rallying in the biggest government-organized show of defiance since the war began.

An Australian man has appeared in a Thai court for the first time on charges of murder and concealment of a body in connection with the death of a teenage girl.