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Israeli airstrikes targeting Iran-backed Houthis rock Yemen's capital

By SAMY MAGDY, MELANIE LIDMAN and SAM METZ
Aug 24, 2025 3:47 pm - CAIRO (AP) — Israeli airstrikes hit Yemen ’s capital on Sunday, days after the Houthi rebels fired a missile toward Israel that its military described as the first cluste...
Wildfires expand in Oregon and California, threatening homes and prompting evacuations

By TAMMY WEBBER
Aug 24, 2025 3:43 pm - Wildfires in California wine country and Central Oregon grew overnight, prompting hundreds of evacuations as firefighters sought to contain the blazes Sunday amid dry, ho...
Frustrated, Trump signals pause in his Ukraine peace effort

By Cat Zakrzewski
Aug 23, 2025 8:05 pm - President Donald Trump is signaling that he would step back for now from efforts to reach a Ukraine peace deal, expressing frustration over rising casualties and the fail...
Bus carrying junior high football team crashes near Pittsburgh. 21 people are taken to hospitals

Aug 23, 2025 5:09 pm - A bus carrying a junior high football team to a game crashed Saturday north of Pittsburgh, sending 21 of the 28 people on board to the hospital, officials said.Twenty-five Aliquippa Junior High students and three adults were headed to a game in nearby Gibsonia. The crash occurred in Economy Borough, about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh.
Maxwell denies Epstein kept ‘client list’ and other takeaways from interview

By Derek Hawkins, Jeremy Roebuck, Theodoric Meyer, Kim Bellware and Perry Stein
Aug 23, 2025 5:08 pm - The transcript of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s interview of Ghislaine Maxwell spans more than 300 pages, the audio more than six hours. Upon releasing the materials Friday, Blanche said nothing about his July conversation with the imprisoned accomplice of deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein had been removed “except for the names of victims.”
Texas Gov. Abbott says he’ll swiftly sign new maps on his desk that will boost GOP in 2026

By JIM VERTUNO, JOEY CAPPELLETTI and HALLIE GOLDEN
Aug 23, 2025 4:23 pm - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday promised to quickly sign off on a new, Republican-leaning congressional voting map gerrymandered to help the GOP maintain its slim majority in Congress.
Kilmar Abrego García’s lawyers say threat to deport him to Uganda is coercion

By Maria Sacchetti and Jeremy Roebuck
Aug 23, 2025 4:16 pm - The night before Kilmar Abrego García was set to be released from a Tennessee jail, federal prosecutors urged him to strike a deal: Plead guilty to two counts of human smuggling, serve his sentence, and be deported to Costa Rica, a tropical, Spanish-speaking refuge regarded as the safest country in Central America.When he declined the offer in favor of awaiting trial with his family in Maryland, officials threatened to deport him within days to Uganda, an African nation to which the State Department has discouraged travel because of the ongoing risk of terror attacks, his lawyers wrote in a filing Saturday detailing their account of those exchanges.
Fed Chair Powell faces fresh challenges to Fed independence amid potential rate cuts

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Aug 23, 2025 4:13 pm - Now that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has signaled that the central bank could soon cut its key interest rate, he faces a new challenge: how to do it without seeming to cave to the White House's demands.For months, Powell has largely ignored President Donald Trump's constant hectoring that he reduce borrowing costs. Yet on Friday, in a highly-anticipated speech, Powell suggested that the Fed could take such a step as soon as its next meeting in September
Israeli strikes and gunfire kill 33 as Gaza City becomes focus of famine and a military offensive

By MARIAM DAGGA and SAMY MAGDY
Aug 23, 2025 2:59 pm - Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 33 Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, including people sheltering in tents or seeking scarce food, local hospitals said as a famine in Gaza’s largest city puts new pressure on Israel over its 22-month offensive.
Texas redistricting fight shakes up battle lines for both parties in key US Senate race

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, LEKAN OYEKANMI and THOMAS BEAUMONT
Aug 23, 2025 2:50 pm - Just as Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred was holding a town hall near the Mexican border as part of an “unrig Texas” campaign tour, the state’s Democratic fundraising powerhouse Beto O’Rourke rallied support in Austin for lawmakers who left the state to delay a redistricting plan led by President Donald Trump. The next morning, one of those wayward lawmakers, James Talarico, stood in the pulpit at former President Barack Obama’s old church in Chicago to say he and his fellow legislators had simply taken a leap of faith.

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