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Taiwan's vice president calls for closer EU ties in rare address to international lawmakers 11/08/2025 01:01am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� Taiwan's deputy leader urged the European Union to boost security and trade ties with the self-governing island and support its democracy in the face of growing threats by China, in a rare address to a group of international lawmakers in Brussels on Friday. ���Peace in the Taiwan Women make inroads in Pakistan as they become firefighters and barriers slowly fall 11/08/2025 12:49am • KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) ��� Thick black smoke clawed at the sky last week over the industrial zone in Pakistan's largest city as firefighter Syeda Masooma Zaidi raced toward the raging blaze in Karachi. The storage facility was packed with truck and car tires, and the flames leapt hungrily, black pl Former colleagues pay tributes to pilots killed in UPS cargo plane crash in Kentucky 11/07/2025 08:19pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� Former colleagues are mourning three pilots killed in a UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky, as relatives of a man who was pulled from the wreckage confirm he���s among those who died. Capt. Richard Wartenberg, First Officer Lee Truitt and International Relief Offi Investigators look into 'repeating bell' heard during takeoff of UPS cargo plane that crashed 11/07/2025 08:09pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� A UPS cargo plane was nearly airborne when a bell sounded in the cockpit. For the next 25 seconds, the bell rang and the pilots tried to control the aircraft as it barely lifted off the runway, its left wing ablaze and missing an engine, and then plowed into the ground in a House cleaner shot to death on front porch after going to wrong house in Indianapolis suburb 11/07/2025 07:26pm • Authorities are considering whether to charge an Indiana homeowner who they say shot and killed a woman working as a house cleaner after she mistakenly went to the wrong address. Police officers found 32-year-old Maria Florinda Rios Perez dead just before 7 a.m. Wednesday on the front porch of the h US airlines cancel 1,000 flights while complying with shutdown order 11/07/2025 06:48pm • Anxious travelers across the U.S. felt a bit of relief Friday as airlines mostly stayed on schedule while still cutting more than 1,000 flights largely because of the government shutdown. Plenty of nervousness remained, though, as more canceled flights are coming over the next week to comply with th Crossing guards face life-threatening dangers on the job 11/07/2025 06:33pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Anthony Taylor will never forget the look of horror on the student���s face. The school crossing guard was walking into the crosswalk in front of Washington Township High School in Indianapolis when a car with a young boy and his mom, who was dropping him off at school, suddenly Florida sets execution date for man who fatally stabbed woman during home invasion robbery 11/07/2025 05:40pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� A man convicted of fatally stabbing a woman during home invasion robbery is scheduled to be put to death in December under a death warrant signed Friday by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is setting a record pace for executions. Mark Allen Geralds, 58, is scheduled to di Biofuel pledge at climate summit highlights India���s ethanol blending debate 11/07/2025 05:00pm • BENGALURU, India (AP) ��� India's push to blend ethanol with gasoline shows the benefits and challenges of the sustainable fuel efforts being showcased at global climate talks this week. Earlier this year, the Indian government announced that it achieved its goal of mixing 20% of the plant-based fu A lesser-known Farmers' Almanac will fold after 2 centuries, citing money trouble 11/07/2025 04:59pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ��� It's the Maine one, not the main one ��� a 208-year-old, Maine-based publication that farmers, gardeners and others have relied on for planting guidance and weather predictions will publish for the final time. The Farmers' Almanac, not to be confused with its older, longtime Md. woman charged in deadly 2024 crash that killed NFL draftee pleads guilty 11/07/2025 04:58pm • A Maryland woman charged in a July 2024 crash near Joint Base Andrews that killed an NFL draftee and two of his former teammates pleaded guilty to three charges Friday afternoon. Cori Clingman, of Upper Marlboro, pleaded guilty to three counts of negligent homicide under the influence of alcohol. The shutdown has disrupted air travel. Will that drive a surge in car rentals and train bookings? 11/07/2025 04:45pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The U.S. government shutdown has rattled air travel ��� most recently with an unprecedented effort from the Federal Aviation Administration to cut flights by 10% at airports nationwide. And the disruptions are causing some to instead hit the road or buy a train ticket. That could m Norris grabs the sprint pole at the Brazilian GP from title rivals 11/07/2025 03:23pm • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� Lando Norris set up a chance to pad his one-point lead in Formula 1 by securing pole position for the sprint race at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Saturday. Of his title rivals, McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri will start third and Red Bull's Max Verstappen will be sixth. ���It was di The government shutdown prompts the cancellation of some Veterans Day events 11/07/2025 03:04pm • Normally on Veterans Day, volunteers gather at the Riverside National Cemetery in California to place flags alongside more than 300,000 gravesites. But not this year. The longest federal government shutdown on record is curtailing and outright canceling parades, ceremonies and other events across th Salman Rushdie's new book is his first fiction since a brutal attack. He tells us why 11/07/2025 02:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Salman Rushdie's new book, his 23rd, is also a resetting of his career. ���The Eleventh Hour,��� which includes two short stories and three novellas, is his first work of fiction since he was brutally stabbed on a New York lecture stage in 2022. His recovery has been physical, psyc