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17 people have been killed in 2 mass shootings in the same street in South Africa 09/28/2024 02:46pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Seventeen people, including 15 women, were killed in two mass shootings that took place at two homes on the same street in a rural town in South Africa, police said Saturday. A search was underway for the suspects, national police spokesperson Brig. Athlenda Mathe said in a sta Sharpton and Central Park Five members get out the vote in battleground Pennsylvania 09/28/2024 02:56am • NEW YORK (AP) — A few dozen New Yorkers boarded a bus in Harlem on Friday with civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton and members of the group formerly known as the Central Park Five, bound for Philadelphia, where they toured the city hoping to energize the youth vote ahead of the 2024 election. Walz has experience on a debate stage pinning down an abortion opponent's shifting positions 09/28/2024 12:11am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz knows how to lean into abortion rights on the debate stage. He's done it before. Just ask his Republican opponent in the 2022 Minnesota governor's race, Dr. Scott Jensen, who was on the receiving end of Walz’s attacks — and saw The Latest: Harris heads to US-Mexico border and Trump meets with Zelenskyy 09/27/2024 08:26pm • Vice President Kamala Harris was making her first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump met in New York with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Harris was scheduled to appear in Douglas, Arizona, as Trump Residents of a small Mississippi town respond to a scathing Justice Department report on policing 09/27/2024 07:20pm • LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — Some residents of a small Mississippi town where the Justice Department found severe problems with excessive and racially disproportionate policing said they were unaware of the ongoing issues, while others said harassment from officers was a part everyday of life. In a re Court revives lawsuit of Black pastor who was arrested while watering his neighbor's flowers 09/27/2024 04:13pm • Montgomery, Ala. (AP) — The police officers who arrested a Black pastor while he watered his neighbor's plants can be sued, a federal appeals court ruled Friday, reversing a lower court judge's decision to dismiss the pastor's lawsuit. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Court of Appeals unanimou Bond denied for Fairfax Co. husband accused of double homicide in alleged plot with au pair 09/27/2024 03:45pm • The Virginia man charged in the deaths of his wife and another man inside a Fairfax County house will stay in jail until his trial in February. Judge Penney S. Azcarate agreed with prosecutors that Brendan Banfield, 39, was a danger to himself and the public, and he might not show up for the tria Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces new sex assault allegations in woman's lawsuit 09/27/2024 03:38pm • Sean “Diddy” Combs was hit with new sexual assault allegations Friday as a woman filed a lawsuit in New York saying she was repeatedly raped and drugged at the music mogul's homes and became pregnant after one of the encounters. It's the latest of several similar lawsuits by women against Combs, Maryland man convicted of shooting and wounding 2 police officers in 2023 09/27/2024 12:26pm • TOWSON, Md. (AP) — A Maryland man who shot and wounded two police officers has been convicted of attempted murder, armed carjacking and firearms charges. A Baltimore County Circuit Court jury found David Linthicum, 26, guilty Thursday after a weeklong trial. A 39-hour police chase on Feb. 8, Abortion-rights groups are courting Latino voters in Arizona and Florida 09/27/2024 10:23am • PHOENIX (AP) — When Lesley Chavez found out she was pregnant at age 16, she saw her daughter as a blessing from God and never considered an abortion, a view reinforced by her devout Christian mother. If she could have voted at the time, Chavez would have opposed expanding abortion access. But 10 y Families of 43 missing students in Mexico are still demanding justice 10 years later 09/27/2024 05:15am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Families of the 43 students from a rural teacher’s college abducted 10 years ago in southern Mexico marked the painful anniversary Thursday, disillusioned after what they say was a decade of unfulfilled government promises. Thousands marched with the families in the rain throu Alabama puts man convicted of killing 3 to death in the country’s second nitrogen gas execution 09/26/2024 11:52pm • ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama used nitrogen gas Thursday to execute a man convicted of killing three people in back-to-back workplace shootings, the second time the method that has generated debate about its humaneness has been used in the country Alan Eugene Miller, 59, was pronounced dead at 6:38 What to know from the UN: Before Netanyahu speech, 2 leaders denounce Israeli actions to their peers 09/26/2024 08:46pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The topics of Israel’s war with Hamas and fighting in Lebanon have dominated speeches at the U.N. General Assembly’s meeting this week. On Thursday, one side finally got the podium — including a moment of drama amid the ocean of words from the world's leaders. The first Who is Eric Adams? The New York City mayor faces charges alleging he took bribes 09/26/2024 06:37pm • New York City Mayor Eric Adams is facing federal charges that he allegedly took bribes and illegal campaign contributions from foreign sources. The charges marked a stunning fall for Adams, a former police captain who made a commitment to law-and-order a cornerstone of his political platform even as Justice probe finds pervasive abuse and discrimination by police in small Mississippi city 09/26/2024 06:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Police in a majority-Black Mississippi city discriminate against Black people, use excessive force and retaliate against critics, the Justice Department said Thursday in a scathing report detailing a slew of civil rights abuses by law enforcement in one of America's poorest count