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Poland halted asylum claims at the Belarus border and now wants Europe to follow its example
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — When Poland stopped registering asylum applications from migrants entering from Belarus in March 2025, authorities presented it as a temporary emergency measure to counter what they saw as a push by Russia and its ally Belarus to destabilize the country by directing tens of ...
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Europe uses subsidies, taxes and policy pauses to offset pain of high fuel prices
BRUSSELS (AP) — Wars in the Middle East and Ukraine are driving governments across Europe to craft subsidies, taxes and policy revisions that might shield their economies, companies and increasingly aggrieved citizens from record gasoline and diesel prices.
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Board of Peace has met with UNRWA despite saying it has no Gaza role, agency's ex-chief says
JERUSALEM (AP) — As the U.S.-created Board of Peace pushes ahead with plans to rebuild Gaza, it has said there’s no place for the U.N. body that for decades has provided support to displaced Palestinians. But the agency’s last chief says that behind the scenes, board members and others have been ...
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Xi is wrapping his visit to Washington with a peek at the Constitution and Bill of Rights
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is taking Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit the National Archives on Friday, showing off the sacred texts of U.S. democracy to the leader of the world’s most powerful communist country to cap off a three-day state visit criticized for being heavy on po...
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Trump administration moves to limit fixes for systemic racism in schools
The Trump administration has shifted the approach to civil rights enforcement in American schools. Previously, both Republican and Democratic administrations addressed systemic racism, recognizing that policies could unintentionally harm certain racial groups. However, under President Donald Trum...
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A month after Nepal-China floods, families await answers about more than 50 missing Ukrainians
BANGKOK (AP) — Olena Kalynychenko was looking forward to sharing the chrysanthemum tea she had bought in China with her partner.
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Nepal's leader, at UN, says recent floods serve as a 'warning to the world' about climate change
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Nepal's prime minister scolded fellow world leaders Thursday, saying the nation's recent deadly flood reminds a warming world that climate change keeps hurting people who didn't cause the crisis but now need help.
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New Jersey governor asks her No. 2 to resign over ethics and sexual harassment violations
New Jersey’s governor called on her hand-picked lieutenant governor to resign by Friday after a law firm hired by her office concluded he behaved inappropriately around women.
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Protesters of Xi's policies push for change in earshot of White House visit with Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump warmly welcomed Chinese leader Xi Jinping with a personal airport greeting, a tour of his new helipad and a candlelit dinner. But outside the White House, protests against Xi continued almost nonstop Thursday during his state visit.
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They said it: Leaders at the UN, in their own words
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Many leaders saying many things about many topics that matter to them, to their regions, to the world: That’s what the U.N. General Assembly invariably produces each year.
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US weighs new limits on Cuban travel at the UN as Havana decries Trump's economic squeeze
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Trump administration was considering imposing new restrictions on Cuban officials who travel to the United Nations, another step to squeeze the government in Havana as its top diplomat accused the United States on Thursday of unleashing collective punishment on Cuba’s pe...
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Man who was shot during 2024 Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, has died
James Copenhaver, one of three campaign rally attendees shot in 2024 during an assassination attempt on then-candidate Donald Trump, has died. His lawyer announced the man's death on Thursday. Copenhaver was 76. Copenhaver was in the bleachers during the event in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a 20-y...
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Small bites from the UN: Defiance, fiery language and a cold building
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Competing speeches from Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas commanded attention at the United Nations on Thursday, even though the Palestinian leader wasn't there in person: The United States denied him a visa.
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FBI employees in Trump Mar-a-Lago case seek clarity on subpoenas in Florida 'grand conspiracy' probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FBI employees involved in the criminal investigation into President Donald Trump's retention of classified documents have been subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury in a broad Florida-based conspiracy probe, their lawyers revealed Thursday as they asked a judge to clar...
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Trump's state dinner for Xi features sea bass and a long list of tech titans
WASHINGTON (AP) — A tech-heavy guest list, the fashion choices of those on it, who sat where and what was on the menu marked the softer — often and glitzier — details of diplomacy as Donald Trump threw a Thursday night state dinner honoring China’s leader Xi Jinping.
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Trump administration turns to Supreme Court as third-country deportations are thrown into question
A ruling to halt deportations of people to countries other than their own has thrown a core immigration policy of the Trump administration into question, at least temporarily, and prompted a desperate appeal to the Supreme Court. The administration said Thursday that the appeals court ruling came...
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Trump relishes showing Xi his Marine One chopper and new White House helipad
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump showed off some of his favorite things at the White House for the visiting leader of communist China on Thursday — bringing him inside his Marine One helicopter and exhibiting a new granite landing pad he built for it, along with the hulking, nearby constr...
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Netanyahu says Mamdani endangers Jewish New Yorkers by spreading lies about Israel's actions in Gaza
NEW YORK (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Mayor Zohran Mamdani of endangering Jewish New Yorkers with his criticism of Israel's military actions in Gaza, saying during a speech at the United Nations on Thursday that the mayor has spread lies about Israel.
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Homeland Security defends officers in immigrant's fatal car crash in Michigan
The federal government is defending its officers after a fatal crash last weekend involving an immigrant in western Michigan. The Department of Homeland Security is trying to counter any claim that officers were chasing the vehicle when Mario Coronado Juarez died Sunday in Grand Rapids. The depar...
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California Supreme Court orders Riverside County sheriff to return 650,000 seized ballots
The California Supreme Court has ruled that a Republican California sheriff must return over 650,000 ballots he seized following a November 2025 special election that favored Democrats. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who was running for governor at the time, claimed he confiscated the ball...
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Italy decrees limits on non-Italian speakers and veils in school classrooms
ROME (AP) — Italy’s government passed a decree Thursday to place an upper limit on the number of students in each school classroom who have only limited Italian language skills and to ban face-covering Islamic veils in schools.
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An isolated Netanyahu takes UN stage as he seeks reelection at home
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began the year declaring that he stood “shoulder to shoulder” with U.S. President Donald Trump as the two countries launched a war against Iran. But this week, as world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, t...
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Deaths of students at the University of Mississippi cast spotlight on kratom
A drug task force in Mississippi is urging people to avoid kratom after authorities found packages of the substance while investigating the deaths of two University of Mississippi students. Lafayette County Metro Narcotics issued the warning Tuesday, though it said it had no “confirmed informatio...
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Melania Trump takes China's first lady on a museum outing that's watched for diplomacy and style
WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump and Peng Liyuan on Thursday toured one of the largest Asian art museums in the United States, celebrating cultural ties between the U.S. and China during a high-profile diplomatic visit to Washington.
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40 days to midterms, election officials say new US cyber plan comes too late
The nation’s cybersecurity agency has released an election infrastructure security plan 40 days before November’s midterms. Thursday's plan outlines potential threats and offers services to election officials. But election officials say the plan is inadequate and late, after the administration gu...
