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As climate risks grow, India's Bengaluru is trying to save its vanishing lakes 09/19/2025 09:06pm • BENGALURU, India (AP) ��� Sunil Kumar rowed his small boat, moving a few feet at a time, while he spread a fishing net across the weeds floating like a green carpet on Doddajala Lake. The ends of the net were then carried ashore and tied to a tractor and an earthmover, which pulled the bundled plant Trump says US has carried out another fatal strike targeting alleged drug-smuggling boat 09/19/2025 08:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump said Friday the U.S. military has carried out its third fatal strike against an alleged drug smuggling vessel this month. Trump in a social media posting said the strike killed three and was carried out against a vessel ���affiliated with a Designated Terro Missouri judge strikes down ballot summary for anti-abortion measure backed by Republican lawmakers 09/19/2025 07:58pm • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� A Missouri judge has struck down a ballot summary for an anti-abortion amendment backed by Republican state lawmakers while concluding that it presented an unfair and insufficient description to voters. Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green ruled Friday that the ballot Senate confirms Mike Waltz as Trump's ambassador to the United Nations after months of delays 09/19/2025 07:48pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Senate on Friday confirmed Mike Waltz to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, filling the last vacancy in President Donald Trump's Cabinet after eight months of delays and the withdrawal of a previous nominee. The bipartisan vote for Waltz came after a recent p Maryland comptroller: 80% of public schools in need of ���repair, renovation or replacement��� 09/19/2025 07:24pm • Just 20% of the state���s school buildings are in satisfactory shape or better, while the other 80% would need ���repair, renovation or replacement��� to get to that level, according to a report released Thursday. The report from Comptroller Brooke Lierman said that the state needs to improve its Texas A&M president steps down but doesn't say if controversial classroom video was a factor 09/19/2025 07:24pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� The president of Texas A&M University, roiled by an online video of a confrontation between a student and professor in a class that discussed gender, said Friday that now is the time to leave, but he did not offer a specific reason. Mark A. Welsh III and the school had faced pol Kennedy's vaccine advisers change COVID shot guidance, calling them an individual choice 09/19/2025 07:10pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.���s new vaccine advisers added confusion Friday to this fall���s COVID-19 vaccinations ��� declining to recommend them for anyone and leaving the choice up to those who want a shot. Until now, the vaccinations had been recommended as a routine Senate rejects competing bills to fund government, increasing risk of shutdown on Oct. 1 09/19/2025 06:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Senate rejected competing measures on Friday to fund federal agencies for a few weeks when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, increasing prospects for a partial government shutdown on that date. Leaders of the two parties sought to blame the other side for the standoff. Why Newsom's push for new House maps isn't a sure thing, even in heavily Democratic California 09/19/2025 06:21pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Gov. Gavin Newsom���s proposal on the Nov. 4 ballot to reshape California���s U.S. House districts to add five Democratic seats in advance of the 2026 midterm elections is not a sure sale with voters, even in a state where Democrats outnumber registered Republicans by nearly 2-t Cardinals and 49ers face off in Week 3 matchup of undefeated teams 09/19/2025 05:56pm • Arizona (2-0) at San Francisco (2-0) Sunday, 4:25 p.m. EDT, Fox. BetMGM NFL Odds: 49ers by 2 1/2. Against the spread: Cardinals 1-1; 49ers 2-0. Series record: 49ers lead 36-31. Last week: Cardinals beat Panthers 27-22; 49ers beat Saints 26-21. Last meeting: Cardinals beat 49ers 47-24 at Glendale, A IOC confirms Russians competing as neutrals at Milan-Cortina Games and no talks on Israel 09/19/2025 05:52pm • MILAN (AP) ��� Russians will be allowed to compete at next year���s Milan-Cortina Winter Games but the International Olympic Committee said on Friday it had never discussed banning Israel. The IOC confirmed after an executive board meeting in Milan that it will follow the system it used at the Paris California Gov. Gavin Newsom extends signature program aimed at curbing carbon emissions 09/19/2025 05:49pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday extended a signature state program aimed at reducing planet-warming emissions through 2045, a move Democrats cheered but Republicans warned would raise gas prices. The program known as cap and trade sets a declining limit on total gr Takeaways from RFK Jr.'s vaccine panel meeting on COVID-19 and childhood vaccines 09/19/2025 05:41pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A vaccine advisory committee handpicked by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met in Atlanta this week to consider whether to revise recommendations on shots against COVID-19, hepatitis B, and a combination shot that protects children against measles, mu Web of business interests shows that Kimmel's future rests on far more than his jokes 09/19/2025 05:37pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The decision about whether to keep Jimmy Kimmel on his late-night ABC show depends on far more than his jokes. The choice is complicated by a web of business and regulatory considerations involving ABC���s parent company, other media companies and the Trump administration. It's the Raiders and Commanders both have 1 win against a bad team and 1 loss to a good team 09/19/2025 05:05pm • Las Vegas (1-1) at Washington (1-1) Sunday, 1 p.m. EDT, Fox. BetMGM NFL Odds: Commanders by 3. Against the spread: Raiders 1-1; Commanders 1-1. Series record: Commanders lead, 8-7. Last week: Raiders lost to Chargers 20-9; Commanders lost to Packers 27-18. Last meeting: Commanders beat Raiders 17-15