Nation and World
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Swiss claim record for world's longest passenger train
Oct 29, 2022 7:00 am - GENEVA (AP) - A Swiss railway company claimed the record for the world's longest passenger train Saturday with a trip on one of the most spectacular tracks through the A...
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Today in History: October 29, "Black Tuesday" on Wall Street
Oct 29, 2022 7:00 am - Today in History Today is Saturday, Oct. 29, the 302nd day of 2022. There are 63 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 29, 1929, 'œBlack Tuesda...
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Vince Dooley, longtime Georgia football coach, dies at 90
Oct 29, 2022 7:00 am - ATLANTA (AP) - Vince Dooley, the football coach who carried himself like a professor and guided Georgia for a quarter-century of success that included the 1980 national ...
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17 Australian women, children return from Syrian camp
Oct 29, 2022 7:00 am - CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Four women and their 13 children who were held in a Syrian camp since the Islamic State group fell in 2019 have become only the second group o...
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AP PHOTOS: Alaska village still home despite climate threat
Oct 29, 2022 7:00 am - SHISHMAREF, Alaska (AP) - 'œHome sweet home.'ť That's how Helen Kakoona calls her Alaska Native village of Shishmaref when asked what it means to live on a remote barrie...
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50 dead, dozens feared missing as storm lashes Philippines
Oct 29, 2022 7:00 am - MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Flash floods and landslides set off by torrential rains left at least 50 people dead, including in a hard-hit southern Philippine province, wh...
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Feds unveil plan to grow wind power while sparing rare whale
Oct 29, 2022 7:00 am - PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The federal government has outlined a strategy to try to protect an endangered species of whale while also developing offshore wind power off the ...
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Anne Frank's friend Hannah Pick-Goslar dies at age 93
Oct 29, 2022 7:00 am - THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Hannah Pick-Goslar, one of Jewish diarist Anne Frank's best friends, has died at age 93, the foundation that runs the Anne Frank House muse...
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120,000 parade at Taiwan Pride celebration despite rain
Oct 29, 2022 7:00 am - TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Some 120,000 paraded in the streets of Taipei as the city's 20th annual Pride event celebrated the LGBTQ community Saturday in spite of the rainy w...
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Rebels makes new advance, and Congo expels Rwandan envoy
Oct 29, 2022 7:00 am - GOMA, Congo (AP) - Rebels seized control of two major towns in eastern Congo and doubled the territory they hold after fierce fighting Saturday with the Congolese milita...