At least 56 dead and millions without power after Helene's deadly march across the Southeast
PERRY, Fla. (AP) — Massive rains from powerful Hurricane Helene left people stranded, without shelter and awaiting rescue Saturday, as the cleanup began from a tempest that killed at least 56 people, caused widespread destruction across the U. S. Southeast and left millions without power. “I’ve never seen so many people homeless as what I have right now,” said Janalea England, of Steinhatchee, Florida, a small river town along the state’s rural Big Bend, as she turned her commercial...
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- Russian missiles and drones target Kyiv for 5 hours and hit Ukraine's power grid
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- US and allies call for an immediate 21-day cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah
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- Georgia's anti-LGBTQ+ measures raise fears of hate crimes in the conservative South Caucasus nation
Wed, 25 Sep 2024
- Trump says Ukraine is 'demolished' and dismisses its defense against Russia's invasion
- New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted, sources say
- Israel tells its troops to prepare for a possible ground operation in Lebanon
- California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes bill to help Black families reclaim taken land
- A huge Hurricane Helene is expected to hit Florida as a major storm and strike far inland
- Harris will campaign on Arizona's border with Mexico in attempted show of strength on immigration
- Pope expels a bishop and 9 other people from a Peru movement over 'sadistic' abuses
- A Black student punished for his hairstyle wants to return to the Texas school he left
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- Harris is making a 'capitalist' pitch to boost the economy as Trump pushes deeper into populism
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- Fluoride in drinking water poses enough risk to merit new EPA action, judge says
- Ukraine urges world leaders not to seek 'lull' in Russia's war instead of true peace
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- Cmon get happy, Joker is back (this time with Lady Gaga)
- A tale of crushing security lapses and missed chances to stop the man who shot Trump
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- Mexico's most popular president in decades is retiring. What will he leave behind?
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- Head of United Nations calls global situation 'unsustainable' as annual meeting of leaders opens
- Missouri executes a man for the 1998 killing of a woman despite her familys calls to spare his life
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- Climate solutions: 2 kinds of ocean energy inch forward off the Oregon coast
- Rookie Jayden Daniels nearly flawless for Commanders in 38-33 win over Bengals
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- Josh Allen throws 4 TD passes and the Bills roll to a 47-10 win over the unraveling Jaguars
- John rapidly strengthens into a Category 3 hurricane off southern Mexico's Pacific coast
- Boeing makes a 'final offer' to striking workers, but union says it's not good enough
- Pac-12 adding Utah State, in talks with Gonzaga, as Mountain West tries to hold UNLV, AP sources say
- Gunman who killed 10 at a Colorado supermarket is sentenced to life in prison
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- Birmingham, Alabama, leaders plead for information on mass shooting and announce reward money
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- Iran's President accuses Israel of seeking wider Mideast war and laying 'traps' to lead Iran into it
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- Who is Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Sri Lanka's new Marxist president?
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- Families from Tennessee to California seek humanitarian parole for adopted children in Haiti
- Israel-Hamas war latest: Israel's air force launches dozens of airstrikes on southern Lebanon
- Lebanese doctor races to save the eyes of those hurt by exploding tech devices
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- As UN meets, Haitians express hopelessness at finding an international solution to gang crisis
- Ukraine's Zelenskyy visits Pennsylvania ammunition plant to thank workers and ask for more
- Several Mark Robinson campaign staffers quit as fallout over online posts continues
- Harris raises $27 million in New York fundraiser, promises economic speech this week
- White Sox lose 120th game to tie post-1900 record by the 1962 expansion New York Mets
- Long-forbidden French anti-riot force sent to Martinique as thousands defy bans on protests
- Spending deal averts a possible federal shutdown and funds the government into December
- Hezbollah hits back with rockets as it declares an 'open-ended battle' with Israel
- Trump says, if he loses, 2024 run will be his last
- California governor signs law banning all plastic shopping bags at grocery stores
- Mass shooting kills 4 and wounds 17 in nightlife district in Birmingham, Alabama
- India Prime Minister's U.S. visit brings him to New York and celebration of cultural ties
- AP Top 25: No. 5 Tennessee continues to climb and Boise State enters poll for first time since 2020
- 21 wounded after Russia strikes apartment buildings in Ukrainian city of Kharkiv
- Marxist Dissanayake wins Sri Lanka's presidential election as voters reject old guard
- A'ja Wilson and Caitlin Clark are unanimous choices for WNBA AP Player and Rookie of the Year
- For home shoppers, the Feds big rate cut is likely just a small step towards affording a home
- Are Trump and Harris particularly Christian? That's not what most Americans would say: AP-NORC poll
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- Israel raids and shuts down Al Jazeera's bureau in Ramallah in the West Bank
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- An explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran kills at least 34 workers
- Republicans in swing states say they see scant signs of groups door-knocking for Trump
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- German chancellor's Social Democrats seek to hold off far right in Brandenburg state election
- World leaders are gathering in New York for the U.N. General Assembly. The outlook is gloomy
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- Hezbollah targets base near Haifa after Israeli strike in Beirut killed 37, including top commander
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