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Munition blast during school trip kills student in Israel, and other Mideast developments

The Israeli military said the munition was believed to belong to Hezbollah.

A displaced Yemeni family sits beside a makeshift shelter along a roadside in Aden.

FILE–Country Western singer John Denver is shown performing for a lunchtime crowd in Detroit in 1978. Denver, whose songs Rocky Mountain High” and Take Me Home, Country Roads” gained him worldwide appeal and millions of record sales in the 1970s, was killed in a single-engine plane crash Sunday, Oct. 12, 1997. He was 53. (AP Photo/File)

Today in History: October 12, musician John Denver dies in plane crash

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Thousands of people examine the individual panels of the AIDS quilt as it is displayed on the Mall in Washington on Sunday, Oct. 11, 1992. More than 300,000 people are expected to view the quilt in what is expected to be the last time the memorial to those who died from AIDS is displayed in its entirety. The Washington Monument is in the background. (AP Photo/Stephen R. Brown)

Today in History: October 11, AIDS Memorial Quilt displayed on Washington’s National Mall

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FILE — Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, during a Saudi investment event at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Nov. 19, 2025. The attacks by the Houthis have struck at the heart of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s plans to turn Riyadh into a global travel and business hub. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)

At Least 12 Killed and 300 Injured in Houthi Attack on Saudi Airport

By The New York Times News Service Syndicate

October 10, 2026 at 7:15 p.m.

At Least 12 Killed and 300 Injured in Houthi Attack on Saudi Airport

American opera singer and actor Todd Duncan looking up as he leans on the ledge of an open window during a stage production of ‘Porgy and Bess’, staged at the Alvin Theatre in New York City, New York, 1935. Duncan plays the role of Porgy in the opera by American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto by DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin, adapted from the novel by DuBose Heyward. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Today in History: October 10, ‘Porgy and Bess’ opens on Broadway

By The Associated Press

October 10, 2026 at 2:01 a.m.

The George Gershwin opera “Porgy and Bess,” featuring an all-Black cast, opened on Broadway, beginning...

Rescue workers carry a body after pulling from the rubble of a residential building destroyed by a Russian airstrike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)

Trump says Ukraine should get a new president as he blames Zelenskyy for US diesel prices

By The Associated Press

October 10, 2026 at 12:28 p.m.

By MATTHEW DALY, SUSIE BLANN and ELISE MORTON WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said...

This satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA shows Hurrican Simon in the Pacific on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration via AP)

Puerto Vallarta boards up as Hurricane Simon hits Category 4 strength

By The Associated Press

October 10, 2026 at 7:14 p.m.

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (AP) — Simon has strengthened into a powerful Category 4 hurricane as...

Bottles of 2023 Tignanello, Solaia and Guado al Tasso red wine.

Thieves pull off Italy’s biggest-ever wine heist, stealing 30,000 bottles worth $5.8 million

By The Associated Press

October 9, 2026 at 12:21 p.m.

Using the company’s forklifts, they loaded the vehicles with wine and fled during the night.

Navanethem "Navi" Pillay speaks at the Nuremberg Forum.

South African-born jurist Navi Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize for her work in international justice

By The Associated Press

October 9, 2026 at 11:14 a.m.

The committee emphasized the importance of resolving conflicts without violence.

A 1963 view of Longarone, Italy, a village that was wiped out on Oct. 9, 1963, when some 260 million cubic meters of rock and mud slid into the lake formed by the Vajont Dam, forming a wave of some 50 million cubic meters of water that topped the dam and swept onto the valley below causing some 2,000 victims. (AP Photo/Files)

Today in History: October 9, northern Italy dam landslide triggers mega-tsunami

By The Associated Press

October 9, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

A mega-tsunami triggered by a huge landslide at Vajont Dam in northern Italy destroyed villages...

FILE – In this Oct. 8, 1956, file photo, New York Yankees’ Don Larsen delivers a pitch in the fourth inning of Game 5 against the Brooklyn Dodgers in the baseball World Series en route to the first World Series perfect game. The Yankees won 2-0 and went on to win the series. Larsen, the journeyman pitcher who reached the heights of baseball glory in 1956 for the Yankees when he threw a perfect game and the only no-hitter in World Series history, died Wednesday night, Jan. 1, 2020. He was 90. (AP Photo, File)

Today in History: October 8, Yankee pitches perfect World Series game

By The Associated Press

October 8, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series as the New York...

** FILE ** Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya is seen in Moscow in this 2001 file photo. Anna Politkovskaya, a prominent Russian journalist famous for her critical coverage of the war in Chechnya was killed Saturday in Moscow, police and prosecutors said. (AP Photo/ITAR-TASS) ** NO SALES **

Today in History: October 7, journalist Anna Politkovskaya shot and killed in Moscow

By The Associated Press

October 7, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who wrote stories critical of Kremlin policies in the early...

This undated photo released in 2019 by the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, shows the institute workers in a lab. (The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East via AP) ADDITION: adding photo was released in 2019

What to know about the fears of pneumonic plague in Russia

By The Associated Press

October 7, 2026 at 11:57 a.m.

Pneumonic plague is a severe form that affects the lungs and spreads through respiratory particles.

Iva Toguri D’Aquino, also known as “Tokyo Rose,” is shown as she made an appearance in Federal building in San Francisco, June 30, 1949. (AP Photo/Clarence Hamm)

Today in History: October 6, ‘Tokyo Rose’ sentenced for treason

By The Associated Press

October 6, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

Iva Toguri D’Aquino, a U.S. citizen commonly known as “Tokyo Rose” for participating in Radio...

President Donald Trump talks with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

US military says latest strike on alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean kills 4

By The Associated Press

October 5, 2026 at 8:50 a.m.

The military did not provide evidence that the vessel was ferrying drugs.

A B-1 bomber takes off from RAF Fairford in Fairford, England.

US Air Force removes all bombers from British air base targeted by a suspected terror attack

By The Associated Press

October 5, 2026 at 8:50 a.m.

The bombers were redeployed to their home bases in the United States.

A group of students, including three black students, gather around their teacher on the lawn of the bombed Clinton High School for a makeshift class in Clinton, Tenn., Oct. 7, 1958. Violence has persisted for two years following desegregation in 1956. (AP Photo)

Today in History: October 5, racially desegregated Tennessee school bombed

By The Associated Press

October 5, 2026 at 2:01 a.m.

Racially desegregated Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee, was nearly leveled by an early morning...

Hungarian police officers walk in front of yards flooded by toxic mud in the town of Devecser, Hungary, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. Monday’s flooding was caused by the rupture of a red sludge reservoir at an alumina plant in western Hungary and has affected seven towns near the Ajkai Timfoldgyar plant in the town of Ajka, 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of Budapest. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)

Today in History: October 4, toxic sludge overtakes 3 Hungary towns, killing 8

By The Associated Press

October 4, 2026 at 2:01 a.m.

A vast release of red toxic sludge from an aluminum oxide plant in Hungary flooded...

Amanda Knox cries after hearing the verdict that overturns her conviction and acquits her of murdering her British roomate Meredith Kercher, at the Perugia court, Italy, Monday Oct. 3, 2011. An Italian appeals court has thrown out Amanda Knox’s murder conviction and ordered the young American freed after nearly four years in prison for the death of her British roommate. Knox collapsed in tears after the verdict was read out Monday. Her co-defendant, Raffaele Sollecito, also was cleared of killing 21-year-old Meredith Kercher in 2007. (AP Photo/Tiziana, Pool)

Today in History: October 3, Amanda Knox freed after Italian murder convictions tossed

By The Associated Press

October 3, 2026 at 2:01 a.m.

An Italian appeals court freed Amanda Knox of Seattle after four years in prison, tossing...

A soldier prods a protester with the butt of his rifle while they are being led away from a Mexico City plaza following their arrest, October 3, 1968, after a night of violence between the protesters, mostly university students, and soldiers. The clashes, which have come to be known as the “Massacre of Tlatelolco” after the downtown plaza where they occurred, killed as many as 300 people. However, most Mexican media published army reports that 27 people had been killed. (AP Photo)

Today in History: October 2, hundreds massacred at Mexico City student protest

By The Associated Press

October 2, 2026 at 2:01 a.m.

As many as 300 people were massacred at a student protest in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco...

The death in San Quentin prison March 8, 1941, of James B. McNamara recalled the 1910 dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times. McNamara pleaded guilty to murder of one of the 21 persons who died in the explosion in Los Angeles. This photo is circa 1910. (AP Photo)

Today in History: October 1, bombing at the Los Angeles Times kills 21

By The Associated Press

October 1, 2026 at 9:00 a.m.

The offices of the Los Angeles Times were destroyed by a dynamite explosion and fire,...

Passengers who experienced an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, during a flight on FlyDubai plane, arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Pilot stabs fellow pilot on flight to Israel before passengers intervene to stop attack

By The Associated Press

October 1, 2026 at 6:06 a.m.

The plane made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.

Pres. Franklin Roosevelt viewed the Boulder Dam project for the first time in Nevada at its border with Arizona, Sept. 30, 1935. Walker Young, in charge of the work for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is shown at left pointing out points of interest to the president. The president’s military aide is at right. (AP Photo)

Today in History: September 30, Boulder Dam dedicated; later renamed Hoover Dam

By The Associated Press

September 30, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Boulder Dam (now the Hoover Dam) on the Colorado...

The flags of Canada and the United States fly over a stadium in Ottawa.

From motorcycles to booze, US ban on $1 billion worth of Canadian imports goes into effect

By The Associated Press

September 29, 2026 at 3:19 p.m.

It marks another ratcheting up of Trump’s second-term trade war with America’s longtime ally.

U.S. President George H.W. Bush points to the top of Washington National Cathedral where the last stone was lifted into the place, Saturday, Sept. 29, 1990 in Washington completing 83 years of construction on the church. On Sept. 29, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt rode to Mount St. Albans, the highest point in the capital, to see the foundation stone laid. The final stone, a 1000-pound piece of Indiana limestone, was put atop southwest pinnacle of the cathedral’s St. Paul tower. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi)

Today in History: September 29, final stone placed on Washington National Cathedral

By The Associated Press

September 29, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

The construction of Washington National Cathedral concluded, 83 years to the day after its foundation...

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks to the media.

Mediators are working to broker a US-Iran deal, but major hurdles remain

By The Associated Press

September 29, 2026 at 6:05 a.m.

Indirect talks were expected to resume on Monday, officials said.

Police guard a road leading to RAF Fairford in England.

5 men arrested near a US-run air base are bailed as UK police probe whether there’s a link to Iran

By The Associated Press

September 29, 2026 at 6:18 a.m.

Investigators have not concluded whether the incident is a state-backed attack.

382212 02: The controversial abortion pill known as RU-486, seen here as Mifeprex, is being shipped to U.S. physicians for the first time beginning November 20, 2000 following approval of the drug by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in September. (Photo by Newsmakers)r

Today in History: September 28, US government approves abortion pill RU-486

By The Associated Press

September 28, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

Capping a 12-year political battle, the U.S. government approved use of the abortion pill RU-486.

A German tank in the main street of Radzymin, advancing against Warsaw which has offered its surrender, on Sept. 27, 1939. (AP Photo)

Today in History: September 27, Warsaw surrenders to Germany

By The Associated Press

September 27, 2026 at 2:01 a.m.

Warsaw, Poland, surrendered after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the...

Demonstrators show a firebomb to police during clashes with police in Prague, Tuesday, September 26, 2000. About 1,500 leftist demonstrators clashed with police on the opening day of the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Moneytary Fund (IMF). (AP Photo/Wolfram Steinberg)

Today in History: September 26, anti-globalization protesters clash with police at IMF, World Bank summit

By The Associated Press

September 26, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

Thousands of anti-globalization protesters clashed with police in demonstrations during a summit of the International...

The wreckage of a Pacific Southwest Airways Boeing 727 jetliner, Flight 182, is examined by aviation inspectors the day after the crash, in the North Park section of San Diego, Sept. 26, 1978. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon)

Today in History: September 25, jetliner and private plane collide over San Diego, killing 144

By The Associated Press

September 25, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

144 people were killed when a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 and a private plane...

This photo provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Polo moving away from the southwestern coast of Mexico on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. (NOAA via AP)

Powerful Hurricane Polo drenches Mexico’s coast as Nolo takes aim at Hawaii

By The Associated Press

September 25, 2026 at 5:51 a.m.

Heavy rains could cause life-threatening flooding and landslides in Mexico.

President Donald Trump arrives with China's President Xi Jinping.

Trump lays out the pomp for Xi but says little about the significant tensions in US-China relations

By The Associated Press

September 25, 2026 at 5:34 a.m.

Xi is pressing for the world’s two biggest economies to work more closely together.

A throng estimated at 15,000 gather to watch the christening of the USS Enterprise, the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, at Newport News, Va., Sept. 24, 1960. (AP Photo)

Today in History: September 24, USS Enterprise, first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launches

By The Associated Press

September 24, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

The USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched at Newport News, Virginia.

FILE – People take part in a march ending in front of the US consulate, under the slogan, Greenland belongs to the Greenlandic people, in Nuuk, Greenland, Saturday March 15, 2025. (Christian Klindt Soelbeck/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)

Trump’s push to acquire Greenland almost broke NATO. The winner of it all may be … Greenland

By The Associated Press

September 24, 2026 at 5:45 a.m.

Greenland is no longer the subject of foreign policy decided by its former colonial rulers.

Hurricane Polo strengthening in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico on Tuesday.

Hurricane Polo fuels fears of landslides and flooding in Mexico’s southwest

By The Associated Press

September 24, 2026 at 6:08 a.m.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says the hurricane is not expected to come onshore.

Half-brothers Roy Bryant, left and J.W. Milam, right, the men accused in the murder of 14-year-old Chicago youth Emmett L. Till, are shown in the courtroom in Sumner, Miss., Sept. 23, 1955. The case goes to the jury later today. Man at center is unidentified. (AP Photo)

Today in History: September 23, Mississippi jury acquits 2 white men of Emmett Till killing

By The Associated Press

September 23, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

A jury in Sumner, Mississippi, acquitted two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, of...

This photo provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Polo strengthening in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. (NOAA via AP)

Hurricane Polo churns off Mexico’s Pacific coast as ‘one of the strongest storms ever’

By The Associated Press

September 22, 2026 at 4:01 p.m.

It was centered about 200 miles south of Zihuatanejo, Mexico, and moving north.

John Cougar Mellencamp performs both on stage and on one of two large screen television screens set up at the University of Illinois Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois on Sept. 22, 1985 during the Farm Aid concert. The festival was held to assist the nations farmers. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

Today in History: September 22, Farm Aid concert brings rock, country music artists together

By The Associated Press

September 22, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

Rock and country music artists participated in Farm Aid, a concert staged in Champaign, Illinois,...

World heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano, in white trunks, delivers a right punch to the head of challenger Archie Moore in the fifth round of their world title bout at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York City, September 21, 1955. (AP Photo/Mathew Zimmermann)

Today in History: September 21, Rocky Marciano undefeated after knocking out Archie Moore

By The Associated Press

September 21, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

Heavyweight boxer Rocky Marciano completed his undefeated professional career by knocking out Archie Moore in...

The launch of the new Cunard flagship Queen Elizabeth II from the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders yard, Clydebank. The QE2 as she became known was the last superliner built for the traditional Southampton to New York crossing. (Photo by David Cairns/Getty Images)

Today in History: September 20, Queen Elizabeth 2 christened in Scotland

By The Associated Press

September 20, 2026 at 2:01 a.m.

The Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth 2 was christened by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II in Clydebank,...

Trader Gregory Rowe, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday afternoon Sept. 29, 2008. Fear swept across the financial markets Monday, sending the Dow Jones industrials down as much as 705 points, after the government’s financial bailout package failed the House. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Today in History: September 19, mortgage crisis bailout plan sends stock market soaring

By The Associated Press

September 19, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

The administration of President George W. Bush laid out a radical bailout plan calling for...

FILE – People protest against Trump’s policy towards Greenland in front of the US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Trump has a deal to build US military presence in Greenland while leaving island in Denmark’s hands

By The Associated Press

September 18, 2026 at 3:57 p.m.

The Danish embassy in Washington had no immediate comment.

Meet Earth’s newest wild cat species, the first named in over a century

By The Associated Press

September 18, 2026 at 12:30 p.m.

By PAOLA FLORES LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A previously unknown cat species has been...

The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during an interview.

Preparing to leave office, with world beset by problems, UN chief talks of a way forward

By The Associated Press

September 18, 2026 at 10:08 a.m.

His message to leaders and ministers from the U.N.’s 193 member nations was no-nonsense.

Armed personnel affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard take part in the state-organized “Janfada,” or “Sacrifice for Iran,” military exercise in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran claims it struck an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, and other Mideast developments

By The Associated Press

September 18, 2026 at 11:50 a.m.

South Korea says it is considering expanding naval operations in the region.

Newspaper advertisement offering reward for the return of an escaped man to his oppressors, Princess Anne, Maryland, April 1, 1861. Text reads: “0 Reward. Ranaway from the subscriber on Tuesday Morning, 26th Ultimo [last month], My negro boy calling himself Severn Black. The said negro is about 5 feet six inches in height, chesnut color, has a scar on his upperlip, downcast countenance when spoken to, blink-eyed, showing a great deal of white, long bushy hair, is about twenty years old, had on when he lefta [sic] blue fustian Jacket, pantaloons of a greyish color, blue striped shirt, a Black slouch hat and shoes nearly worn out. The above reward will be paid by me for the apprehension and delivery of the said negro in the county jail at Princess Anne, Somerset County, Maryland. April 1, 1861. Richard E. Snelling. Somerset Herald Print, Princess Anne, Md.’ The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 obliged citizens and lawmen of free zones to return escaped men to those whom they fled. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Today in History: September 18, Congress passes Fugitive Slave Act

By The Associated Press

September 18, 2026 at 2:01 a.m.

Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which created a force of federal commissioners charged with...

Tents are lined up in the Al-Firdaws camp for displaced Yemenis in Ras Imran, on the western outskirts of Aden, Yemen, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdulnasser Alseddik)

A week after Houthis seized a Red Sea city, the Iranian-backed rebels eye the oil-rich east

By The Associated Press

September 17, 2026 at 12:57 p.m.

Some 125,000 Yemenis have fled their homes, and global fuel prices are rising.

FILE – New York real estate scion Robert Durst takes the stand and testifies in his murder trial at the Inglewood Courthouse on Aug. 9, 2021, in Inglewood, Calif. Durst, the wealthy real estate heir convicted of murdering friend and suspected in other deaths, has died. He was 78. (Gary Coronado /Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool, File)

Today in History: September 17, Robert Durst convicted of murder

By The Associated Press

September 17, 2026 at 2:01 a.m.

A Los Angeles jury convicted New York real estate heir Robert Durst of killing his...

NYU student researchers sit on top of a rock overlooking the Helheim glacier in Greenland.

Satellites show Earth lost more than 12 trillion tons of ice from Greenland, Antarctica in 47 years

By The Associated Press

September 16, 2026 at 8:16 a.m.

All that melted ice turned into nearly 3 quadrillion gallons of water.

Rudolf Bing, general manager of the New York Metropolitan Opera, inspects the stage at the new home of the Met in New York’s, Lincoln Center for the performing arts on Sept. 16, 1966. The Met will open its season in its new $45.7 million dollar home with a special work commissioned for the opening by Samuel Barber entitled “Anthony and Cleopatra.” (AP Photo)

Today in History: September 16, Metropolitan Opera opens at the Lincoln Center

By The Associated Press

September 16, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

The Metropolitan Opera officially opened its new opera house at New York’s Lincoln Center for...

Palestinians carry the body of Ahmad Al-Batsh, a Qassam Brigades commander in Jabaliya, the military wing of Hamas, during his funeral after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Yousef Al Zanoun)

Trump administration plans to send powerful bombs to Israel in $2.8 billion weapons sale

By The Associated Press

September 16, 2026 at 6:06 a.m.

The $2.8 billion package includes 40,000 of the bombs, made up of 20,000 Mk84s and...

Brink Of Death
The edge of a 32-year-old railroad bridge is crowded with rescue workers after part of a Jersey Central train plunged from it into Newark Bay. A vertical lift on the bridge was raised to permit passage of a sand barge beneath it. Signals and an automatic derailing device failed to stop the commuter train. Two locomotives and two cars shot into water. A third car (above) hung for two hours and then fell. The remaining two cars stayed on the bridge. (Photo by Joe Petrella/New York Daily News)

Today in History: September 15, commuter train plunges into Newark Bay, killing 48

By The Associated Press

September 15, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

A commuter train headed for New York City plunged into Newark Bay after missing a...

A setting sun glints off empty seats in Milwaukee County Stadium, Sept. 14, 1994, as the baseball strike ends its 34th day. The stadium was the scene of a news conference earlier in the day at which Bud Selig, acting commissioner of Major League Baseball, announced the end of the season because of the strike. (AP Photo/Roberto Borea)

Today in History: September 14, MLB season ends on 34th day of players strike

By The Associated Press

September 14, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

On the 34th day of a strike by players, Acting Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig announced...

Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, R-Me., smiles Jan., 5, 1949, as she takes a break from looking over papers in her office in Washington D.C. She was a member of the new 81st Congress. (AP Photo)

Today in History: September 13, Margaret Chase Smith elected to US Senate

By The Associated Press

September 13, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate; she became the...

FILE – Anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko is seen in this undated image. (AP Photo/Argus, File)

Today in History: September 12, anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody

By The Associated Press

September 12, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

South African Black student leader and anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, 30, died while in police...

A student walks past a memorial to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that contains steel from the World Trade Center wreckage on the University of Colorado's Colorado Springs campus on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

25 years after 9/11, steel from the destroyed twin towers lives on in Colorado — and all over the world

By John Aguilar

September 17, 2026 at 5:07 p.m.

"The agony of the steel -- the twisting -- is a metaphor for the people...

The twin towers of the World Trade Center burn behind the Empire State Building in New York, Sept. 11, 2001. In a horrific sequence of destruction, terrorists crashed two planes into the World Trade Center causing the twin 110-story towers to collapse. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)

Today in History: September 11, US suffers deadliest terror attack in history

By The Associated Press

September 11, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed as 19 al-Qaida hijackers seized control of four jetliners, sending...

Ethiopia’s Bikila Abebe, centre, leads in the final stages of the Olympic Marathon, in Rome, Italy, Sept. 10, 1960. He is closely followed by Morocco’s Abdesian Rhadi, right. (AP Photo)

Today in History: September 10, Ethiopian runner is first Black African to win Olympic gold

By The Associated Press

September 10, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia won the Olympic marathon in Rome, becoming the first Black African...

A satellite image shows a Saudi Aramco oil refinery before smoke began rising from the facility.

Oil surges above $100 a barrel as US and Iran launch new attacks, while gasoline prices also jump

By The Associated Press

September 10, 2026 at 6:20 a.m.

When oil prices spike, prices of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel also rise.

President Ronald Reagan announces economic sanctions against the white-ruled government of South Africa in a nationally broadcast speech from the Oval Office in Washington, Sept. 9, 1985. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Today in History: September 9, President Reagan sanctions white-ruled government of South Africa

By The Associated Press

September 9, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

President Ronald Reagan ordered economic sanctions against South Africa to target apartheid.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks with members of the media.

Trump widens trade war with Canada beyond tariffs. Here’s what to know

By The Associated Press

September 9, 2026 at 6:13 a.m.

Retaliatory Canadian tariffs took effect Tuesday on about $20 billion in U.S. goods.

FILE – In this July 14, 2014 file photo, a man passes by a Wells Fargo bank office in Oakland, Calif. A House panel says it’s starting an investigation of Wells Fargo in its opening of millions of unauthorized accounts that has become a growing scandal. The House Financial Services Committee on Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, announced an investigation of the allegedly illegal activity by Wells Fargo employees to meet aggressive sales goals as well as the role of federal regulators in the debacle. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Today in History: September 8, Wells Fargo fined $185 million in unauthorized accounts scandal

By The Associated Press

September 8, 2026 at 2:01 a.m.

California and federal regulators fined Wells Fargo a combined $185 million, alleging the bank’s employees...

President Jimmy Carter and Panama head of government Omar Torrijos embrace after signing the historic and much-debated Panama Canal treaty at the Pan American Union in Washington on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 1977. Looking on in background are Amb. Sol Linowitz, left, U.S. negotiator, Alejandro Orfila, second from right, Secretary General, Organization of American States and Romulo Escobar, Panama negotiator, far right. (AP Photo)

Today in History: September 7, Panama Canal Treaty signed by President Carter

By The Associated Press

September 7, 2026 at 2:01 a.m.

The Panama Canal Treaty, which called for the U.S. to turn over control of the...

Martina Navratilova of Czechoslovakia fields questions about her defection and her future after Joe Zingale, background, owner of the Cleveland Nets, announced, in Cleveland, Ohio, Monday Sept. 23, 1975 she had signed a three year contract with the World Team Tennis Club for about 00,000, including a sports car. She wears the diamond pendant he gave her. It contains the figure one, which he said meant she will win that rank worldwide and has already won it in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Paul Burnett)

Today in History: September 6, Martina Navratilova requests political asylum in the US

By The Associated Press

September 6, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

18-year-old tennis star Martina Navratilova of Czechoslovakia, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested...

Pakistani policemen investigate the Pan Am jetliner and the emergency chute in Karachi, Pakistan on Saturday morning, Sept. 6, 1986. The American aircraft had been hijacked one day ago by a group of four and during a shootout on the plane 14 people died and more than other 100 passengers were injured. Underneath the chute, on which some passengers escaped, are some belongings of them still on the tarmac. (AP Photo)

Today in History: September 5, Pan Am hijacking kills 20 passengers, crew members

By The Associated Press

September 5, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

Four hijackers who had seized a Pan Am jumbo jet on the ground in Karachi,...

A person walks past debris, seen through a shattered window at the site of what Iranian media said was a U.S. strike on a home where a wedding celebration was being held late Tuesday, Sept. 1, in Kuhestak, southern Iran, Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Women gathered in a small Iranian town for a wedding. Then a deadly US strike hit

By The Associated Press

September 4, 2026 at 11:57 a.m.

The celebrations were just getting started when the strike hit.

Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan arrive at an event in Miami.

Romanian prosecutors indict Andrew Tate on trafficking minors and money laundering

By The Associated Press

September 4, 2026 at 10:18 a.m.

Tate and his brother Tristan Tate were first arrested in Bucharest in late 2022.

Pope Francis passes in front a portrait of Mother Teresa as he is driven through the crowd at the end of a canonization ceremony in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016. Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint on Sunday, praising the tiny nun for having taken in society’s most unwanted and for having shamed world leaders for the “crimes of poverty they themselves created.” (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Today in History: September 4, Mother Teresa canonized by Pope Francis

By The Associated Press

September 4, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

Elevating the “saint of the gutters” to one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors, Pope...

Sir Malcolm Campbell roaring across the Bonneville Salt Lake Flats, Utah, USA in his Bluebird car during his record breaking run of 301.337 miles per hour on September 3, 1935. (AP Photo)

Today in History: September 3, British journalist breaks automobile speed record

By The Associated Press

September 3, 2026 at 2:01 a.m.

British motoring journalist Sir Malcolm Campbell became the first person to drive an automobile more...

A man sits with a child injured, according to Iranian media, in a strike on a home where a wedding was being held in Kuhestak, southern Iran, at a hospital in Menab, Iran, early Wednesday, Sept.2, 2026. (Razieh Poudat/ISNA via AP)

What to know about a reported US airstrike that hit a wedding in Iran

By The Associated Press

September 3, 2026 at 6:19 a.m.

Iranian state media said four people were killed and more than 60 were wounded.

FILE – A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge in New York, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

China presses the US for answers after a man dies hours after entering ICE custody

By The Associated Press

September 2, 2026 at 9:13 a.m.

At least 57 ICE detainees have died since Trump returned to office in January 2025.

FILE – In this Sept. 2, 2019, file photo provided by the Santa Barbara County Fire Department, is the Conception dive boat engulfed in flames after a deadly fire broke out aboard the commercial scuba diving vessel off the Southern California Coast. The families of the 34 people who perished have formed a group they’re calling “Advocacy34” to push for strengthened boating regulations and requirements for passenger vessels, such as improved fire and safety training protocols and the installation and use of monitoring devices that would ensure there’s a night watch on deck. (Santa Barbara County Fire Department via AP, File)

Today in History: September 2, fire engulfs dive boat off Southern California, killing 34

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September 2, 2026 at 2:01 a.m.

A fire swept a vessel carrying recreational scuba divers that was anchored near an island...

San Francisco Giants pitcher Masanori Murakami poses for a photo in San Francisco on Sept. 1, 1964. Murakami is the first native-born Japanese to play for an American Major League team. (AP Photo/John Rooney)

Today in History: September 1, first Japanese baseball player makes MLB debut

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September 1, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

Pitcher Masanori Murakami of the San Francisco Giants became the first Japanese baseball player to...

A damaged car sits beside a wall bearing numerous impact marks.

New US missile appears to have left wide path of death and destruction in Iranian city, report says

By The Associated Press

August 31, 2026 at 1:36 p.m.

The missiles detonated above a sports complex and two residential neighborhoods.

** FILE ** Police services prepare to take away the damaged car in the Pont d’Alma tunnel in Paris in which Diana, Princess of Wales, was traveling in this Aug. 31, 1997 file photo. Ten years ago – Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash in Paris with her friend, Dodi Fayed, on August 31, 1997. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) * zu unserem KORR. **

Today in History: August 31, Princess Diana dies in Paris tunnel crash

By The Associated Press

August 31, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed after the car she was riding in crashed in...

Thurgood Marshall leaves the Justice Department after being confirmed by the Senate as the nation’s first black Supreme Court Justice, Aug. 30, 1967. Marshall, 57, currently U.S. Solicitor General, was confirmed by a 69 to 11 margin. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)

Today in History: August 30, Thurgood Marshall confirmed as first Black Supreme Court justice

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August 30, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

The Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first Black justice on the...

FILE – In this Aug. 30, 2005 file photo, floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina cover a portion of New Orleans. The most destructive storm in U.S. history and also one of the deadliest, Katrina was a Category 3 storm with estimated maximum winds of 125 mph when it made landfall near Buras, La., on Aug. 29, 2005. Broken levees left most of New Orleans inundated. Damage was estimated at $75 billion, though rebuilding costs have far exceeded the initial damage. Katrina was blamed for around 1,200 deaths. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Today in History: August 29, Hurricane Katrina strikes Louisiana

By The Associated Press

August 29, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. Gulf Coast in southeast Louisiana, breaching levees and spurring floods...

President Donald Trump waves after arriving off Air Force One, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump says US has entered deal with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of oil reserves

By The Associated Press

August 28, 2026 at 5:58 p.m.

The president called it "THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY!"

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House.

Trump used to say he saw a quick end to his Iran war, but 6 months later he claims he’s in no hurry

By The Associated Press

August 28, 2026 at 12:32 p.m.

This week, his administration shifted its focus to economic pressure rather than military action.

**FILE** An Aug. 28, 1968 file photo shows National Guardsmen lining the street as they are confronted by protesters in front of the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago, headquarters for the 1968 Democratic National Convention. While the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Aug. 25-28 won’t look anything like that one, much of what will happen _ and won’t happen _ is a direct result of what unfolded in Chicago when, as the protesters shouted, “The whole world is watching.” That includes the nomination of Barack Obama, just four years removed from being an obscure Illinois state senator. (AP Photo/File)

Today in History: August 28, police, protesters clash outside Democratic National Convention

By The Associated Press

August 28, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

Police and anti-war demonstrators clashed in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic National Convention...

FIFA President Gianni Infantino attends the closing ceremony of the Esports World Cup.

UEFA prepares criminal complaint in Swiss courts against FIFA’s Infantino over World Cup sell-off

By The Associated Press

August 27, 2026 at 12:38 p.m.

Infantino dropped the sell-off plan on Aug. 1 after a furious backlash by global soccer...

Rescuers carry a victim of flash flooding to safety along the Trishuli River.

Catastrophic floods kill over 390 in Nepal and Tibet, with more than 1,400 missing

By The Associated Press

August 28, 2026 at 6:28 a.m.

The collapse of a glacier sent a deadly wall of water and mud through communities.

FILE – Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., waves with his family and his running mate’s family after his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention at Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver, Aug. 28, 2008.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Today in History: August 27, Barack Obama becomes first Black presidential nominee by a major political party

By The Associated Press

August 27, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

Barack Obama was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Denver, becoming the...

Minister of Finance and National Revenue Francois-Philippe Champagne speaks at a news conference.

US-Canada animosity could impede an end to a trade war neither country wants

By The Associated Press

August 26, 2026 at 12:32 p.m.

U.S.-Canada trade talks typically get testy, said expert Christopher Sands.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at a forum.

US military says it killed four in strike on alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean

By The Associated Press

August 26, 2026 at 8:04 a.m.

The military did not provide evidence that the vessel was ferrying drugs.

Minister of Finance and National Revenue Francois-Philippe Champagne speaks at a news conference on Canada’s response to U.S. tariffs, at a roofing company in Ottawa, on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada strikes back at US with retaliatory tariffs as trade war escalates

By The Associated Press

August 25, 2026 at 3:49 p.m.

The announcement includes steel, dairy products, appliances and farm equipment.

393921 02: Fans of R&B singer Aaliyah watch a horse-drawn carriage carry her coffin towards St. Ignatius Loyola Church August 31, 2001 during her funeral in New York City. The 22-year-old singer died August 25 in a plane crash in the Bahamas. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Today in History: August 25, singer Aaliyah killed in plane crash

By The Associated Press

August 25, 2026 at 2:01 a.m.

R&B singer Aaliyah was killed with eight others in a plane crash in the Bahamas;...

Carl Probyn, 60, stepfather of Jaycee Lee Dugard who went missing in 1991, holds photos of his stepdaughter at his home in Orange, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Today in History: August 26, Jaycee Dugard found alive after 18 years

By The Associated Press

August 25, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard was discovered alive in California after being missing for more than...

Rolled coils of steel sit in the yard at the ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel plant in Hamilton.

Canada to announce retaliatory tariffs as Trump tells its leaders to ‘fall in line’

By The Associated Press

August 25, 2026 at 5:56 a.m.

Carney said Canada remains willing to negotiate.

People dressed in protective gear unload a coffin containing the remains of a 6-year-old.

Congo’s Ebola outbreak records one of its highest weekly death tolls yet

By The Associated Press

August 24, 2026 at 7:24 a.m.

This is the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history, with many people dying outside treatment centers.

The Pentagon is seen from the Washington Monument.

US strikes a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing 2 people in first attack in months

By The Associated Press

August 24, 2026 at 2:19 p.m.

Death toll from Trump campaign of bombing boats now exceeds 210.

Members of the International Astronomic Union (IAU), vote on a resolution for planet definition during the IAU 26th General Assembly in Prague, Czech Republic on Thursday, Aug. 24th 2006. The world’s leading astronomers voted on Pluto being newly classified and called as “Dwarf Planet”. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Today in History: August 24, Pluto demoted to dwarf planet

By The Associated Press

August 24, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

The International Astronomical Union declared that Pluto was no longer a full-fledged planet, demoting it...

Former Catholic priest John Geoghan listens during a hearing in Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge, Mass., in this Nov. 5, 2001 photo. The Massachusetts Appeals Court has vacated Geoghan’s conviction for indecent assault and battery after he was allegedly strangled and beaten to death by a fellow inmate on August 23, 2003. (AP Photo/Patricia McDonnell)

Today in History: August 23, former priest, convicted child molester dies in prison attack

By The Associated Press

August 23, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

Former priest John Geoghan, the convicted child molester whose prosecution sparked the sex abuse scandal...

A memorial at the New Hope Community Church for Marine Lance Cpl. Jared Hubbard and Marine Cpl. Jeremiah Baro is shown with a photo of Army Cpl. Nathan Hubbard, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007, in Clovis, Calif. Nathan Hubbard was among 14 U.S. soldiers aboard a Black Hawk helicopter killed when it crashed Wednesday in northern Iraq. Jared Hubbard, one of Nathan’s brothers, was killed by a roadside bomb in Ramadi in 2004. A third brother, Jason Hubbard, will be returning home from Iraq to be with his family, said Clovis police spokeswoman Janet Stoll-Lee. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)

Today in History: August 22, helicopter crash in Iraq kills 14 US soldiers

By The Associated Press

August 22, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

A Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Iraq, killing all 14 U.S. soldiers aboard.

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with technology leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump warns of ‘economic D-Day’ against Iran, but Tehran is well acquainted with sanctions

By The Associated Press

August 21, 2026 at 12:21 p.m.

Trump says the U.S. is imposing an “unprecedented” level of economic warfare on Iran.

Airport security men lift the body of former Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr. into a security van after killing the Senator?s assassin, on the ground, Aug. 21, 1983 in Manila. Aquino died with a single bullet wound to the back of the head, officials said. The body at left is reported to be the assassin. (AP Photo)

Today in History: August 21, Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr. assassinated

By The Associated Press

August 21, 2026 at 5:49 p.m.

Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr. was assassinated as he exited an aircraft at Manila...

FILE – The USS George Washington aircraft carrier is pictured off the coast of Argentina, May 30, 2024.(AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano, File)

US aircraft carrier arrives in Middle East, relieving long-deployed USS Lincoln

By The Associated Press

August 20, 2026 at 1:07 p.m.

It follows reports of mental health challenges and supply shortages aboard the Lincoln.

A man waves an Iranian flag during a pro-government gathering in Tehran.

A quiet channel between ICE and Iran shaped deportation flights, newly released emails show

By The Associated Press

August 20, 2026 at 5:08 p.m.

This marks a shift from the U.S.'s long-standing practice of welcoming Iranian dissidents.

** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY AUG. 20 ** FILE **Members of the Edmond Police department and other law enforcement officials stand out front of the Edmond Post Office, Aug. 20, 1986. On Aug. 20, 1986, Patrick Henry Sherrill, an ex-Marine and small arms instructor for the Oklahoma Air National Guard, tucked two .45-caliber pistols into his postal satchel, locked the doors and systematically killed 14 people before killing himself inside a suburban Oklahoma City post office. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Today in History: August 20, postal employee goes on deadly rampage in Oklahoma

By The Associated Press

August 20, 2026 at 2:01 a.m.

Postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill went on a deadly rampage at a post office in...

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