Nation and World
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Trump says his New York rally marked by crude and racist insults ‘was like a lovefest’
Oct 29, 2024 11:54 am - Donald Trump on Tuesday called his rally at New York's Madison Square Garden, an event marked by crude and racist insults by several speakers, a “lovefest.”
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Ballot drop box fires highlight concerns that election conspiracy theories are making them a target
Oct 29, 2024 9:53 am - Two ballot drop boxes in the Pacific Northwest were damaged in a suspected arson attack just over a week before Election Day, destroying hundreds of ballots at one location in Vancouver, Washington.
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Satellite photos show Israeli strike likely hit important Iran Revolutionary Guard missile base
Oct 29, 2024 8:56 am - Israel’s attack on Iran likely damaged a base run by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard that builds ballistic missiles and launches rockets as part of its own space program, satellite images analyzed by The Associated Press on Tuesday showed.
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Harris reaches for a big moment in her closing argument for ‘turning the page’ on Trump
Oct 29, 2024 8:08 am - Vice President Kamala Harris will pledge to Americans that she'll work to improve their lives while Republican Donald Trump is only in it for himself as she delivers her campaign's closing argument Tuesday from the same site where the former president fomented the Capitol insurrection in 2021.
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Israeli strike in northern Gaza kills at least 60, officials say, as Hezbollah announces new leader
Oct 29, 2024 7:13 am - An Israeli strike on a five-story building where displaced Palestinians were sheltering in the northern Gaza Strip killed at least 60 people early Tuesday, more than half of them women and children, Gaza’s Health Ministry said.
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Trump ally Steve Bannon is released after serving 4 months in prison for contempt of Congress
Oct 29, 2024 7:10 am - Longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon was released from prison early Tuesday, after serving a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Apple launches the iPhone into the AI era with free software updateOct 28, 2024 3:17 pm - Apple is releasing a free software update that will inject its first dose of artificial intelligence into its iPhone 16 lineup as the trendsetting company tries to catch up with technology's latest craze.
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Employee of Rolling Meadows nonprofit arrested in GazaOct 28, 2024 1:13 pm - A staff member of a Rolling Meadows-based health organization providing care in Gaza was among medical staffers reportedly arrested by the Israeli military at a northern Gaza hospital Friday.
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McDonald’s to restore Quarter Pounders after E. coli scare
Oct 28, 2024 11:10 am - McDonald’s Corp. says Quarter Pounders will return to menus at all restaurants this week after ruling out beef patties as the source of a multistate E. coli outbreak.
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North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia to fight in Ukraine, Pentagon says
Oct 28, 2024 10:41 am - North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia to train and fight in Ukraine within “the next several weeks,” Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said Monday.