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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 North Carolina Republicans push for tougher bail rules and potentially new execution methods 09/23/2025 12:51am • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� North Carolina Republican legislators are poised this week to approve criminal justice measures designed to toughen bail rules, restrict magistrates' powers and evaluate offenders' mental health after the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte commuter train. The Indonesia's clean energy future is at the center of a supply struggle between the US and China 09/23/2025 12:41am • The race to replace coal in Indonesia, the world���s largest coal exporter, has become a contest between the U.S. and China. At stake is not only Indonesia���s climate future, but also which superpower sets the terms for the next generation of energy in the developing world. Like much of the develop Lions run over the Ravens, sack Lamar Jackson 7 times in a 38-30 win over Baltimore 09/23/2025 12:37am • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Punishing all night ��� and tricky when they had to be ��� the Detroit Lions battered the Baltimore Ravens with a performance that epitomized everything they've become under coach Dan Campbell. Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery ran for two touchdowns apiece, and the Lions bullied Japan's most sacred Shinto shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years for more than a millennium 09/23/2025 12:21am • ISE, Japan (AP) ��� Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so that they strike from three directions. An hour later, the head woodcutter shouts, ���A tree is falli What we know about autism's causes and any potential link to Tylenol 09/23/2025 12:19am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Many doctors and scientists were reeling Monday after President Donald Trump went on TV to insist that pregnant women should never take Tylenol and revive debunked theories about vaccines and autism. Trump went beyond his own Food and Drug Administration's more modest advice that Trump makes unfounded claims about Tylenol and repeats discredited link between vaccines and autism 09/23/2025 12:15am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump on Monday used the platform of the presidency to promote unproven and in some cases discredited ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism as his administration announced a wide-ranging effort to study the causes of the complex brain disorder. ���Don't take