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2 people killed, including a student, after Florida school bus rolls over in crash, sheriff says

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) — A school bus flipped over onto its roof during a multivehicle crash in central Florida on Monday morning, killing two people — including a 10th grade girl — and injuring several others, authorities said. Nearly 40 people were on the school bus that was headed to Winter Haven High School […]
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Former press secretary Karoline Leavitt lands her next gig: Fox News contributor

NEW YORK (AP) — Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has found her next chapter: She is heading to Fox News. Leavitt will serve as an on-air contributor beginning Nov. 1, the network said Monday. “Karoline’s firsthand experience in the White House and on the presidential campaign trail gives her a distinct understanding of […]
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The Latest: Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the US military failed them

U.S. soldiers wounded in the Iran war’s deadliest strike yet on American troops are raising concerns publicly, many for the first time, about whether commanders underestimated the threat. Some of those wounded also said the military medical system failed them. The Pentagon has so far released few details about the Iranian drone strike on Port […]
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Supreme Court rejects appeal over Michigan school’s ban on ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ sweatshirts

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t hear a challenge to a school district’s ban on shirts with the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon,” The phrase is a jab at former President Joe Biden with a coded reference to profanity. A Michigan mother of two says the school’s ban is a First Amendment violation. The school […]
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Supreme Court rejects Roy Moore’s push to restore $8.2M defamation verdict

MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Roy Moore’s push to restore an $8.2 million defamation verdict over a 2017 Senate race ad funded by a Democratic-aligned super PAC. Justices declined to hear Moore’s appeal of a lower court decision that vacated the large verdict. The outcome keeps in place the […]
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Top crypto group to pour millions into bipartisan slate of House races after key legislation stalls

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top cryptocurrency campaign organization is unveiling a bipartisan list of House members that it will support in the November midterms, as one of the biggest-spending interest groups looks to flex its muscles after a mixed legislative year in Congress. The list, provided first to The Associated Press on Monday, includes 19 […]
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Budding food scrap pickup services across the US want your coffee grounds and eggshells

DETROIT (AP) — Every Monday, Ricky Blanding drives his Ford Ranger pickup truck around Detroit along a carefully planned route. Blanding hops in and out of the truck, grabbing buckets of food scraps from porches and restaurants, piling those scraps into bins in the truck bed and driving them to a composting site. Blanding is […]
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Ohio Democrats’ path to the governor’s office runs through rural areas that had turned against them

MARIETTA, Ohio (AP) — Speaking to a small gathering of supporters as the Ohio River flowed behind her, Dr. Amy Acton announced she was backing a three-year moratorium on permitting new injection wells for fracking in rural Washington County. It’s an issue that is top of mind for voters worried that their groundwater here is […]
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Troy Jackson, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks at the Southern Maine Labor Council brea...

Troy Jackson is scrambling to defeat Maine Sen. Susan Collins. Time is not on his side

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — It’s a Monday night, and Troy Jackson has drawn about 250 people into a converted church to hear him talk about healthcare and labor in Maine. The event is notably different from the rallies held earlier this year by Graham Platner, Jackson’s predecessor as Maine’s Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate. Platner […]
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Takeaways from AP report on Iranian attack in Kuwait that killed 6 US soldiers and wounded dozens

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the war with Iran enters its eighth month, U.S. soldiers wounded in its deadliest strike yet on American troops are raising concerns publicly, many for the first time, about whether commanders underestimated the threat. Some of those wounded also said the military medical system failed them. The Pentagon has released few […]
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‘He’s not coming back’: Months after deadly Iranian attack, families of soldiers struggle to cope

For Michelle Tietjens, the pain of loss often hits hardest at the start of each day, when the realization dawns all over again that she’ll be facing it without her husband. “Waking up in the morning it always takes me a little bit to get going,” she said. “Because you relive it – that he’s […]
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Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military’s medical system failed them

The shrapnel hit Army Lt. Col. Arturo Lincón’s body like shattered glass. One chunk of metal lodged into the left side of his jaw. Another piece sliced through his salivary gland before bouncing off his jaw and piercing the back of his neck, severing an artery and embedding in a vertebra. Lincón was among dozens […]
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Exclusive: Soldiers and Gold Star families press Army leadership after deadly Iranian drone strike

WASHINGTON (AP) — On a sunny, cloudless morning on March 1, the day after President Donald Trump started the war against Iran, Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Marzan was coordinating critical Army supplies out of Port Shuaiba in Kuwait. In an instant, a drone crashed through the ceiling and exploded, killing Marzan, who had served […]
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Trump’s immigration crackdown divides rural voters as midterms approach, AP-KFF poll finds

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a year into President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown, a poll finds that voters in rural parts of the country are divided on whether those immigration policies have benefited or harmed their communities. In The Associated Press-KFF survey of more than 2,000 rural voters in August, about a third said […]
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Trump heads to Nebraska on Monday, where his plan to import more beef has angered ranchers

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is taking his Republican midterm rescue mission to Nebraska on Monday, campaigning alongside GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts, who is running against an independent candidate backed by national Democrats. Trump is headed to Grand Island, Nebraska, located in the solidly conservative south-central part of the state. It’s part of what […]
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What will the next leader of the UN need to get the job done in an increasingly complex world?

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — On Jan. 1, the next United Nations secretary-general will take over an aging organization still controlled by World War II powers. What will the world need from that person? Once a major player in solving conflicts and crises around the world, the 81-year-old institution has been sidelined from the top table […]
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Trump administration’s proposal could make it easier to suspend or expel Head Start students

It was sometime around Xavier Rogers’ second birthday that his mom and Early Head Start teachers noticed a shift in his demeanor. Xavier, usually a happy baby, now mostly wanted to play alone and would sometimes bite and hit other kids in his class. Instead of removing Xavier from his class, his Chicago-area preschool gave […]
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US military says latest strike on alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean kills 4

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said it attacked a boat suspected of being used to smuggle drugs in the Caribbean Sea on Sunday, killing four people, as the Trump administration continues its yearlong campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America. The latest attack brings the number of people who have been killed in boat […]
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FBI Director Kash Patel gets engaged to longtime girlfriend, country singer Alexis Wilkins

FBI Director Kash Patel is engaged to his country singer girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, the pair announced in a post to X on Sunday evening. Wilkins, 27, posted a black-and-white photo of herself standing with Patel, 46, flashing her hand in front of them to show off her ring with the caption, “Went and got the […]
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Jeffries says House Democrats reaching to flip Trump districts in attempt to repeat their 2018 sweep

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said Sunday his party is on track to win back control of the House, confident it can overcome a fundraising disadvantage and reach deep into conservative areas to flip congressional districts won by President Donald Trump just two years ago. In a conference call with reporters, Jeffries, […]
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Police say woman fatally stabbed 7-year-old girl walking in Chicago

CHICAGO (AP) — A 7-year-old girl was fatally stabbed while walking in front of businesses in a Chicago neighborhood, and people nearby detained the woman who attacked her, police said. Chicago police said the girl was walking in the Chatham neighborhood late Saturday morning when a woman carrying an unspecified sharp object approached her and […]
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Now it’s Typhoon Nolo after Pacific hurricane crosses the international dateline

MIAMI (AP) — Nolo is no longer a hurricane. The powerful storm remains about as strong, but it changed names Sunday to a typhoon as it crossed the international dateline in the Pacific Ocean. Now Typhoon Nolo is located about 395 miles (640 kilometers) west-southwest of Lisianski Island and moving west at 17 mph (28 […]
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US Air Force removes all bombers from British air base targeted by a suspected terror attack

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Air Force has brought home its bombers stationed at a U.S.-run military air base in England used to strike Iran following an investigation into a planned terror attack at the RAF Fairford base. The bombers were redeployed back to their home bases in the United States, according to a Pentagon […]
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Search suspended for 6 people on missing medical flight from Bermuda to Boston

Authorities on Sunday suspended the search off the Massachusetts coast for six people on an air ambulance that disappeared during a flight from Bermuda to Boston. The U.S. Coast Guard said authorities searched more than 4,400 miles (7,081 kilometers) over a span of 66 hours for the four Canadians and two people from Bermuda who […]
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