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A New Zealand woman is convicted of murdering her 2 children and leaving their bodies in suitcases 09/23/2025 12:42pm • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ��� A jury in New Zealand on Tuesday found a woman guilty of murdering her two children and leaving their bodies in suitcases for years before they were discovered. The verdict meant the jury at the High Court in Auckland rejected a defense of insanity made by lawyers fo TikTok's algorithm to be licensed to US joint venture led by Oracle and Silver Lake 09/23/2025 11:06am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Tech giant Oracle will spearhead U.S. oversight of the algorithm and security underlying TikTok's popular video platform under the terms of a deal laid out this week by President Donald Trump's administration. All the final details still need to be nailed down among several joint Maryland Democratic leaders tout electricity refund, keep grid operator in the hot seat 09/23/2025 10:59am • A roughly $40 rebate on electricity bills, approved by the General Assembly in April, finally started heading out to customers in August, with a second round expected in early 2026. Legislators took $200 million from a state fund for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs to send the ref Ahmad Hardy's rise: From lightly recruited Mississippi prospect to SEC sensation for No. 20 Missouri 09/23/2025 10:57am • COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) ��� It was clear that Ahmad Hardy hadn't spent much time behind a microphone, or in this kind of glaring spotlight, every time he had to answer a question Saturday night. Hardy would lean into the podium, getting as close as possible to the mic, as if he was worried it wouldn't be Sports on TV for Wednesday, Sept. 24 09/23/2025 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Wednesday, Sept. 24 COLLEGE SOCCER (WOMEN���S) 6 p.m. ACCN ��� North Carolina at Notre Dame COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN���S) 7 p.m. BTN ��� Michigan at Nebraska ESPN2 ��� Missouri at Texas A&M SECN ��� South Carolina at Kentucky 8 p.m Cameroon's divided opposition seeks to stop the world���s oldest leader after 43 years in power 09/23/2025 07:59am • YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) ��� With weeks to go until an election that could extend the world's oldest president's 43 years in power, Cameroon 's opposition is struggling. Its most popular figure has been barred from running, and the 11 candidates remaining are likely to divide the vote. At 92, Paul Biy Unversed in UNGA? Here's your handy guide to UN General Assembly meeting lingo 09/23/2025 07:24am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� The U.N. General Assembly's yearly meeting of world leaders is here ��� and with it, an array of acronyms, abbreviations, titles and terms. Here is some key vocabulary, decoded. For starters ... UNGA: Shorthand (often pronounced ���UN'-gah���) for the U.N. General Assembly's Uganda's authoritarian president, in power since 1986, is running for reelection 09/23/2025 07:18am • KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) ��� Uganda's authoritarian leader, who has been in power since 1986, was confirmed on Tuesday as a candidate in January's presidential vote and urged supporters to back his vision for the future. Electoral officials formally declared President Yoweri Museveni a candidate at an e More experts see genocide in Israel's wartime conduct in Gaza 09/23/2025 05:19am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ��� A growing number of experts, including those commissioned by a U.N. body, have said Israel���s offensive in the Gaza Strip amounts to genocide, deepening Israel���s isolation and risking untold damage to the country���s standing even among allies. The accusation is ve Will Maryland join the congressional redistricting battle? 09/23/2025 04:50am • Over the last 25 years, Maryland Democrats have gradually redrawn the state's congressional maps to reduce the number of Republicans in federal office. Now that Rep. Andy Harris is the lone Republican member of Congress from Maryland, that's still too many for some Democrats who see the battles b How did DC-area colleges score on the 2026 US News and World Report college rankings? 09/23/2025 04:17am • The latest U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges rankings didn���t have dramatic changes from last year, but a few D.C.-area colleges saw some surprising shifts. Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland at College Park still ran Italian workers' strike in solidarity with Gaza brings disruptions across the country 09/23/2025 03:02am • ROME (AP) ��� Thousands of protesters and strikers calling for solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza took to the streets in Italy on Monday, with some storming Milan���s central train station and clashing violently with police. Italy���s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of peo What you will and won't see at this year's UN General Assembly 09/23/2025 02:04am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� The annual high-level gathering at the U.N. General Assembly this week will see more than 140 world leaders descend upon New York City in an effort to secure global peace and security despite growing divides on how to do that. Nearly 90 heads of state, 43 heads of government Spain's top diplomat dismisses Israeli leader's vow of no Palestinian state, saying it will happen 09/23/2025 01:59am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� Spain���s top diplomat dismissed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu���s statement that there will never be a Palestinian state, saying Israelis will one day want to live side by side in peace with Palestinians. Foreign Minister Jos�� Manuel Albares said in an interview Ukraine faces a new test as Russia steps up its drive to seize Donetsk���s fortress belt 09/23/2025 01:52am • SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) ��� Fall is expected to bring another grueling test for Ukraine���s armed forces as Russia intensifies its campaign to seize an eastern region, once Ukraine���s industrial heartland and a territory it has long sought to conquer. Russia now controls about 70% of the Donetsk r