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Turkey's Erdogan says he could still win, would accept presidential election runoff 05/14/2023 11:07pm • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has ruled his country with an increasingly firm grip for 20 years, was locked in a tight election race early Monday, with a make-or-break runoff against his chief challenger possible as the final votes were counted. The results, whe Serbia: Guns, grenades and rocket launchers among 13,500 weapons surrendered after mass shootings 05/14/2023 11:41am • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Authorities in Serbia on Sunday displayed stacks of guns and cartons of hand grenades from the thousands of weapons, including anti-tank rocket launchers, that they said people handed over since back-to-back mass shootings stunned the Balkan nation. The government declared Scabby the Rat gives bite to union protests, but is he at the tail end of his relevancy? 05/13/2023 11:38pm • NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, a giant, inflatable rat with beady eyes, sharp teeth and a pustule-covered belly has loomed over union protests, drawing attention to various labor disputes. As New York City deals with an influx of actual rats, Scabby the Rat has become that rare thing, like Pizza Rat More than 60 migrant families found living in dilapidated greenhouse in rural California 05/12/2023 09:18pm • ROYAL OAKS, Calif. (AP) — A dilapidated greenhouse at a Northern California nursery was home to dozens of farmworkers and their families who were living in tiny and unsafe dwellings without ventilation, authorities said Friday. Officials found 62 makeshift dwellings inside the greenhouse on a pro Toronto issues permanent bans to 4 fans after violence in stands 05/12/2023 08:30pm • TORONTO (AP) — Toronto FC issued permanent bans to four supporters on Friday, three days after fights in the stands during a 2-1 loss to Montreal in the Canadian Championship. It marks the first time the Major League Soccer club resorted to permanent bans. In the past, penalized spectators were ab Amtrak Mother's Day sale: DC to Philly for $29, NYC for $47 05/12/2023 12:40pm • Amtrak's five-day Mother's Day Flash Sale doesn't actually include discounted travel on Mother's Day, but it is good for discounts covering the next three months. The sale is good for tickets purchased now through May 17, and it's valid for travel on most Amtrak routes across the country from Ju US Army chief seeks closer security ties with Indonesia amid tensions in South China Sea 05/12/2023 10:52am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — U.S. Army Chief of Staff James McConville met with Indonesia’s top defense official on Friday to push for stronger security ties amid growing Chinese maritime activity in the Indo-Pacific region. McConville said he and Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto discus AP PHOTOS: In quake-devastated Turkey, voting in presidential election is no simple task 05/12/2023 02:19am • ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — For many voters from southern Turkey, casting ballots in Sunday’s presidential and parliamentary elections will be an uphill battle. The elections are taking place just three months after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake — the deadliest quake in the country’s modern history Christian nonprofit punished for feeding homeless people in California city gets federal backing 05/11/2023 08:26pm • SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice has lent its support to a religious nonprofit that was penalized and threatened with criminal prosecution by the Southern California city of Santa Ana for feeding homeless people. A lawsuit by Micah's Way claims Santa Ana infringed on the non Shopping rules to slash impulse spending 05/11/2023 09:34am • Whether you're shopping for small things like groceries or big things like a new car, it's easy to get carried away and end up spending more than you intended. That's especially true when stores and websites are designed to encourage you to spend as much as possible, even as inflation is pushing Dubai main airport sees over 21.2M passengers in early 2023 05/11/2023 04:05am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai International Airport had over 21.2 million passengers pass through its terminals in the first quarter of the year, potentially nearing numbers it saw before the coronavirus pandemic grounded air traffic around the world. The Dubai airport, the home of the How to write a resignation letter 05/10/2023 08:00pm • If you're about to quit a job, your first instinct may be to run out of your employer's doors and never be seen again. But don't do that. Instead, you may want to write a resignation letter. It isn't always necessary, of course, but a well-crafted resignation letter can be a professional and clas Here are the 13 counts New York Rep. George Santos faces 05/10/2023 05:02pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A 13-count federal indictment unsealed Wednesday in New York accuses U.S. Rep. George Santos of embezzling money from his campaign, falsely receiving unemployment funds and lying to Congress about his finances. In a news release, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern Distri Disney board banned X-rated stores and liquor shops from property, overlooking prisons 05/10/2023 04:07pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Before allies of Gov. Ron DeSantis took over, Disney World's governing district, which at the time was controlled by Disney supporters, reached an agreement in February with the company to prohibit a long list of businesses from ever being operated on its property. Forbidden e The US has approved $42 billion in loan forgiveness for public service workers. Here's what to know 05/10/2023 12:29pm • The U.S. has approved more than $42 billion in federal student loan debt forgiveness for more than 615,000 borrowers in the past 18 months as part of a program aimed at getting more people to work in public service jobs, the U.S. Department of Education said this week. The Public Service Loan Forgiv