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Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza for the 3rd day in a …

Palestinians inspect a damaged building following an Israeli army raid in Nour Shams refugee camp in the northern West Bank, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2022. Palestinians said at least two people were killed in the raid, which the army said was carried out to destroy a militant command center and bomb-storage facility in the building. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

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Weakening Ophelia still poses a risk of coastal flooding …

Visitors walk the boardwalk of the Virginia Beach Oceanfront during Tropical Storm Ophelia on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, in Virginia Beach, Va. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

NASA’s first asteroid samples land on Earth after release …

A helicopter recovery team departs the Michael Army Air Field before the arrival of a space capsule carrying NASA's first asteroid samples on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, to a temporary clean room at Dugway Proving Ground, in Utah. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the capsule following a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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Leading Egyptian opposition politician targeted with spyware, …

FILE - An Egyptian policeman walks near a pyramid in Giza, Egypt, on Nov. 9, 2015. A leading Egyptian opposition politician was targeted with spyware multiple times after announcing a presidential bid — including with malware that automatically infects smartphones, security researchers have found. They say Egyptian authorities were likely behind the attempted hacks. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

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Usher to headline the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show …

FILE - Usher performs at the 51st annual Songwriters Hall of Fame induction and awards gala at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel on Thursday, June 16, 2022, in New York. The NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation announced Sunday that Usher will headline the 2024 Super Bowl on Feb. 11 at Allegiant Stadium. The music megastar, who has won eight Grammys, said he's looking forward to performing on the NFL's biggest stage. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Residents prepare to return to sites of homes demolished …

FILE - The hall of historic Waiola Church in Lahaina and nearby Lahaina Hongwanji Mission are engulfed in flames along Wainee Street on Aug. 8, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. Soon after Lahaina Hongwanji Mission burned in a wildfire that decimated much of the historic coastal town, the Japanese Buddhist temple's resident minister was desperate to go back and see what remained. Now, he's more hesitant. The Rev. Ai Hironaka and other Lahaina residents are grappling with a range of feelings as Maui authorities plan to begin allowing them back into what has become known as the "burn zone." (Matthew Thayer/The Maui News via AP, File)

Ideological rifts among U.S. bishops are in the spotlight …

FILE - Father James Martin, a Jesuit priest and editor-at-large of America Magazine, is interviewed at the publication's offices, in New York, Monday, May 21, 2018. Martin, through his writings, public appearances and other activities, has been advocating over many years for greater LGBTQ inclusion in the church. He says critics of the October 2023 synod’s attention-getting agenda miss the essential purpose of the gathering at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Both parties want to win South Florida. Here’s one …

Felix Llerena, a Cuban immigrant and political activist now living in Texas, poses for a photo at Arthur Storey Park, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, in Houston. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

Government should pay compensation for secretive …

Chester Deanes, left, and Ben Phillips hold a photo of the former Pruitt-Igoe housing development in St. Louis, where they lived growing up on Sept. 7, 2023. The Army sprayed a potential carcinogen from the tops of buildings and from station wagons in the area around Pruitt-Igoe in the 1950s and 1960s as part of secret Cold War-era testing. Deanes and Phillips are leading an effort to get government compensation. (AP Photo/Jim Salter)

The Supreme Court will hear a case with a lot of …

FILE - The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, with the U.S. Capitol in the distance, Nov. 4, 2020. It's hard to imagine a less contentious or more innocent word than “and.” But how to interpret the simple conjunction has prompted a complicated legal fight that lands in the Supreme Court on the first day of its new term next week. What the justices decide could affect thousands of prison sentences each year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Lahaina residents brace for what they’ll find as …

FILE - Sydney Carney walks through her home, which was destroyed by a wildfire on Aug. 11, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. Lahaina residents are grappling with a range of feelings as Maui authorities plan to begin allowing them back into what has become known as the "burn zone." (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Auto workers still have room to expand their strike …

A UAW Local 2402 member waves a picket sign outside the General Motors Customer Care and Aftersales facility in Brandon, Miss., Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. The unionized workers joined others Friday in new nationwide walkouts as the labor standoff continues. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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The Biden administration is poised to allow Israeli …

President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. Biden was in New York to address the 78th United Nations General Assembly. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Some UK police put down guns after an officer is …

FILE - This is an undated file family photo issued by charity INQUEST of Chris Kaba. London’s police force says some officers are refusing to conduct armed patrols after a police marksman was charged with murder over the shooting of an unarmed Black man. An officer was charged with murder on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023 over the September 2022 shooting of Chris Kaba, 24. (INQUEST via AP, File)

Masked gunmen attack Kosovo police and kill 1 officer …

A Kosovo police officer guards a road near the village of Banjska, 55 kilometers (35 miles) north of the capital Pristina, northern Kosovo, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. Prime Minister Albin Kurti on Sunday said one police officer was killed and another wounded in an attack he blamed on support from neighboring Serbia, increasing tensions between the two former war foes at a delicate moment in their European Union-facilitated dialogue to normalize ties. (AP Photo/Bojan Slavkovic)

Russian airstrikes kill 2 and wound 3 in southern …

FILE - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy listens to an impromptu rendition of the Ukrainian national anthem at an event including members of the Ukrainian-Canadian community, in Toronto, on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was traveling home from North America, where he addressed the U.N. General Assembly and paid his first wartime visit to Canada.(Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)

US will establish diplomatic ties with the Cook Islands …

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during the U.S.-Pacific Island Country Summit at the State Department in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. Biden is set to announce the opening of new U.S. embassies on Cook Islands and Niue on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, as the Democratic administration aims to demonstrate to Pacific Island leaders that it remains committed to increasing American presence in the region. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

India had been riding a geopolitical high. But it …

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is welcomed at the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters, where he was felicitated a day after the women's reservation bill was passed by the Indian Parliament in New Delhi, Friday, Sep. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/STR)

Business

Meet Lachlan Murdoch, soon to be the new power behind …

FILE - Lachlan Murdoch appears at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 9, 2020. Rupert Murdoch is stepping down at Fox and News Corp, son Lachlan will take over as chairman of both companies. For Lachlan Murdoch, this has been a long time coming — assuming, that is, his moment has actually arrived. On Thursday, his father Rupert Murdoch announced that he’s stepping down as the head of his two media companies — News Corp. and Fox Corp. -- as of November. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

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Trudeau pledges Canada’s support for Ukraine and …

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, embraces Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he is introduced during a rally at the Fort York Armoury in Toronto on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)

Judge blocks government plan to scale back Gulf oil …

FILE - A rig and supply vessel are pictured in the Gulf of Mexico off the cost of Louisiana, April 10, 2011. A federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to expand next week’s scheduled sale of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases by millions of acres. The Thursday, Sept. 22, 2023, ruling rejected a scaled-back plan announced last month by the Biden administration as part of an effort to protect an endangered whale species. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Auto workers expand their strike to 38 locations …

Members of the United Auto Workers strike outside the MOPAR Milwaukee Parts Distribution Center Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Amazon Prime Video will soon come with ads, or a …

FILE - Amazon's Prime Video streaming app on an iPad is seen in Baltimore on March 19, 2018. Amazon says that it will now start charging $2.99 per month in order for users in the U.S. to watch Prime Video ad free. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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Hot dog! The Wienermobile is back after short-lived …

FILE - The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile sits outside the the Oscar Meyer headquarters, Oct. 27, 2014, in Madison, Wis. On Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, four months after announcing that the hot dog-shaped Wienermobile was changing its name to the Frankmobile, Oscar Meyer said that the one-of-a-kind wiener on wheels is reverting to the original. (M.P. King/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

Why was a lion cub found by a roadside in northern …

In this photo provided by www.subotica.com, a man holds a months-old lion cub after it was found wandering on a local road, near Subotica, Serbia, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. A months-old lion cub was taken to a zoo in northern Serbia on Thursday after it was seen wandering on a local road, officials and media said. The female cub, found on the outskirts of Subotica, a town near the border with Hungary, was malnourished and weak, said Sonja Mandic, from the Palic Zoo, which took in the cub. (www.subotica.com via AP)

An Israeli tank was stolen from a military zone. …

In this photo provided by the Israeli police, an Israeli tank that was stolen from a military zone is seen in a junkyard near Haifa, Israel, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2022. Israeli authorities are trying to figure out how the tank was stolen from a military training zone and taken to the junkyard in northern Israel. The army said that the tank was unarmed and had been out of service for many years. (Israeli Police via AP)

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Technology

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