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Hong Kong lawmakers pass bill to regulate ride-hailing services like Uber 10/15/2025 08:21am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Hong Kong lawmakers passed a bill Wednesday to regulate online ride-hailing services, requiring platforms like Uber, along with their vehicles and drivers, to be licensed, after years of backlash from the city's taxi industry. The first licensed platforms are expected to start ope Waymo plans to bring its driverless taxis to London in 2026 10/15/2025 05:01am • LONDON (AP) ��� Robotaxi pioneer Waymo plans to expand to London next year, marking the company���s latest step in rolling out its driverless ride service internationally. Waymo said Wednesday that it will start testing its self-driving cars on London streets in the coming weeks ��� with a human ��� Today in History: October 15, #MeToo movement goes viral 10/15/2025 04:10am • Today is Wednesday, Oct. 15, the 288th day of 2025. There are 77 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 15, 2017, actor and activist Alyssa Milano tweeted that women who had been sexually harassed or assaulted should write ���Me too��� as a status. Within hours, tens of thousands had take Russia makes more precise drones and is using them to attack Ukraine���s vital rail network 10/15/2025 03:42am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� When Russian drones smashed into the Shostka train station in northeastern Ukraine earlier this month, they killed a 71-year-old man, injured at least eight people and left train cars buckled by fire and riddled with shrapnel holes. It was one of the latest examples of what Uk Pickup truck explodes on busy street in Ecuador 10/14/2025 10:47pm • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) ��� A pickup truck exploded on a busy shopping street in the port city of Guayaquil in Ecuador on Tuesday evening killing one person and injuring two others in what the governor called an intentional attack. Maj. Jorge Montanero of the Guayaquil fire department told local televis Rare October storm in Southern California prompts evacuations and causes freeway accidents 10/14/2025 09:49pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A rare October storm pummeled Southern California with several inches of rain on Tuesday, swelling rivers, causing freeway accidents and prompting evacuations in wildfire-scarred neighborhoods where the threat of mudslides was high. The National Weather Service issued flash flo Los Angeles County officials approve emergency declaration over immigration raids 10/14/2025 08:23pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Los Angeles County officials voted Tuesday to declare a state of emergency that gives them power to provide assistance for residents they say have suffered financially from ongoing federal immigration raids. The move allows the LA County Board of Supervisors to provide rent rel 11 Signs Your Aging Parent Needs Senior Care 10/14/2025 08:00pm • Aging is a fact of life, and many older adults may reach a point when they can no longer look after themselves. Often, this leaves their adult children wondering if and when it's time to step in and care for their parents. These can be challenging questions to answer, especially if your family dynam Stellantis says it will invest $13B to expand its US operations, adding more than 5,000 jobs 10/14/2025 07:36pm • Stellantis says it will invest $13 billion over the next four years to expand its manufacturing capacity in the United States, a move that the automaker says will increase its domestic vehicle production by 50% and add more than 5,000 jobs. The world���s fourth-largest carmaker said Tuesday the inv Hit-style shooting of Venezuelan activists in Colombia fuels fear of wider persecution by Maduro 10/14/2025 07:23pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� The hit-style shooting of two Venezuelan activists in Colombia's capital is fueling fears among Venezuela's diaspora that a crackdown on dissent by the government of Venezuelan President Nicol��s Maduro is seeping beyond the South American nation's borders. On Monday afternoon, D���Angelo, Grammy-winning R&B singer who became an icon with ���Untitled (How Does It Feel),��� dies 10/14/2025 07:21pm • D���Angelo, the Grammy-winning R&B singer recognized by his raspy yet smooth voice and for garnering mainstream attention with the shirtless ���Untitled (How Does It Feel)��� music video, has died. He was 51. The singer, whose real name was Michael Eugene Archer, died Tuesday after a long bout High-speed Border Patrol chase ends in arrest, tear gas used on protesters on Chicago���s South Side 10/14/2025 05:57pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� A high-speed chase involving Border Patrol agents led to the pursued person's arrest Tuesday afternoon in a residential street on Chicago ���s South Side, authorities said, and footage from the scene shows protesters gathering before agents deployed a tear gas to disperse them. Whil Slowdown in US hiring suggests economy still needs rate cuts, Fed's Powell says 10/14/2025 04:20pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A sharp slowdown in hiring poses a growing risk to the U.S. economy, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday, a sign that the Fed will likely cut its key interest rate twice more this year. Powell said in a speech in Philadelphia that despite the federal government shut Theodore Roosevelt library takes 'calculated risk' with remote North Dakota site 10/14/2025 04:17pm • MEDORA, N.D. (AP) ��� The day his young wife and mother died, Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his diary that ���the light has gone out of my life,��� and it was only through extended trips to the isolated Dakota Territory in the 1880s that he regained ���the romance" of living. A library examining the c Air traffic controllers on shutdown: ���Do I have to go and drive Uber tonight?��� 10/14/2025 03:59pm • Nearly three weeks into the government shutdown, the head of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association said financial uncertainty is adding a risky distraction to employees. "Today marks the first day that air traffic controllers have a completely different focus ��� their first loss o