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Louvre heist leaves a cultural wound — and may turn French crown jewels into legend 10/26/2025 06:01pm • PARIS (AP) — The robbery at the Louvre has done what no marketing campaign ever could: It has catapulted France’s dusty crown jewels — long admired at home, little known abroad — to global fame. One week on, the country is still wounded by the breach to its national heritage even as authorit Thailand's Queen Mother Sirikit has died at age 93 10/26/2025 04:55pm • BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Queen Mother Sirikit, who supervised royal projects to help the rural poor, preserve traditional craft-making and protect the environment, died on Friday. She was 93. The Royal Household Bureau said she died in a hospital in Bangkok, adding that she began suffering from Former Archivist of the US details the East Wing's origin story 10/26/2025 03:23pm • It's possible that for generations of Americans, this past week will be remembered for when the East Wing of the White House was demolished to make way for President Donald Trump's $300 million ballroom. While for some it may seem like both the East and West wings have been a part of the Executiv Main wreckage of cargo plane recovered from Hong Kong waters after deadly crash 10/26/2025 11:00am • HONG KONG (AP) — The main wreckage of a cargo plane that veered off a Hong Kong runway and plunged into the sea was recovered from the waters on Sunday, days after the deadly crash. The Boeing 747, flown by Turkey-based ACT Airlines from Dubai, skidded after landing last Monday and collided with Video shows dramatic rescue of baby pinned under overturned car in Texas 10/25/2025 07:44pm • FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A baby is expected to make a full recovery after being pulled from under a vehicle that had flipped during a crash, authorities said Friday after releasing dramatic video that showed the rescue effort along a busy highway. Officers responded to the scene Thursday morning Norris takes pole in Mexico as Piastri struggles; Hamilton shines for Ferrari 10/25/2025 06:35pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Formula 1 driver championship fight stormed into the Mexican Grand Prix with points leader Oscar Piastri struggling in qualifying while McLaren teammate Lando Norris took the pole. Norris won his fifth pole of the season — first one at Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez — wh NASCAR hoping must-win scenarios at Martinsville will avoid manipulation repeat 10/25/2025 12:46pm • NASCAR has a buzzy slogan for the third-round finale of its Cup Series playoffs. With half of the remaining eight drivers desperate for a victory to reach the Championship 4 finale, Sunday is “Must-Win at Martinsville Speedway!” That certainly has a better ring to it than “Manipulation at Mart Tropical Storm Melissa stationary in the Caribbean as 4 deaths reported and huge rains expected 10/24/2025 11:39pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Melissa was nearly stationary in the central Caribbean on Friday as forecasters warned it could strengthen and swipe Jamaica as a powerful hurricane and dump a staggering amount of rain — up to 35 inches (89 centimeters) — on southwest Haiti, where t Inspector Clouseau? The mystery man in an AP photo after the Louvre jewel heist creates a buzz 10/24/2025 09:32pm • PARIS (AP) — It was shortly after the stunning heist of the crown jewels at the Louvre when Paris-based Associated Press photographer Thibault Camus caught in his frame a dapperly dressed young man walking by uniformed French police officers, their car blocking one of the museum gates. Instinctiv Max Verstappen hoping Mexico's high altitude will boost his F1 title chase 10/24/2025 07:33pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — To stay in the hunt for a fifth F1 title in a row, Max Verstappen needs to keep closing the points gap on McLaren drivers Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris. Racing in Mexico City might help him to do just that. The Red Bull driver hit the ground running in Mexico on Friday, finishi Trump says tech leaders and mayor changed his mind about using federal force in San Francisco 10/24/2025 06:49pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Donald Trump was geared up for a show of federal force in San Francisco, a city he’s blasted as everything wrong with liberal governance. Then conversations with some of the Bay Area’s most prominent tech leaders and the mayor changed his mind. “I got a great c Former South Carolina elections director arrested after using state card to buy fuel, agents say 10/24/2025 04:49pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's former elections director was arrested Friday and charged with using a state credit card to pay for more than $5,400 in fuel as he drove his state car for personal use. Howard Knapp, 40, was charged with embezzlement, misconduct in office and eight counts of Employee accused of stealing 47 vehicles from Avis Budget car rental site at New York airport 10/24/2025 04:39pm • SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — An employee allegedly stole 47 vehicles from an Avis Budget site at an upstate New York airport and rented them out around the region, police said Friday. The car rental company reported to authorities that the vehicles, worth more than $1 million, were stolen from its locati Trump's trade war with Canada: A timeline of how we got here 10/24/2025 04:32pm • NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's barrage of tariffs has quickly strained the United States' longstanding relationship with Canada over the last year. Since taking office in January, Trump has threatened Canada's economy and sovereignty with steep import taxes on its goods. He's even claime No criminal charges for officers who fatally shot man armed with crossbow outside Potomac Mills 10/24/2025 02:46pm • No criminal charges will be filed against the Prince William County police officers who shot and killed a man armed with a crossbow near Potomac Mills mall this summer after a tense, hourslong standoff. The incident began during the afternoon of July 17, when officers said they tracked down 52-year