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Violent clashes break out in Dublin after knife attack that injured 3 children, one seriously 11/24/2023 12:11am • LONDON (AP) — Violent clashes broke out in central Dublin on Thursday evening, with vehicles torched and riot police attacked, after a 5-year-old girl was seriously injured in a knife attack earlier in the day that also saw a woman and two other young children hospitalized. Irish police said the g Railyard explosion, inspections raise safety questions about Union Pacific's hazmat shipping 11/24/2023 12:09am • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal inspectors have twice found hundreds of defects in the locomotives and railcars Union Pacific uses at the world’s largest railyard in Nebraska, but none of those seem to explain why a shipping container filled with toxic acid exploded there this fall. Investigators hav Today in History: November 24, Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald 11/24/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Friday, Nov. 24, the 328th day of 2023. There are 37 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 24, 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, in a scene captured on live television. Nicaragua's Miss Universe title win exposes deep political divide in the Central American country 11/23/2023 10:52pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua's increasingly isolated and repressive government thought it had scored a rare public relations victory last week when Miss Nicaragua Sheynnis Palacios won the Miss Universe competition. But the "legitimate joy and pride” President Daniel Ortega's government expresse Residents of Kentucky town can return home after crews extinguish derailment fire 11/23/2023 04:38pm • LIVINGSTON, Ky. (AP) — A chemical fire at a Kentucky train derailment that caused evacuations has been extinguished and people can return to their homes, rail operator CSX said Thursday. CSX spokesperson Bryan Tucker said in an email Thursday afternoon that “the fire is completely out.” He sai Watch those leftovers: These Thanksgiving foods aren't good for dogs 11/23/2023 04:00pm • As long as you follow food safety guidelines, the biggest risk with your Thanksgiving meal might be that you overindulge and can't get up off the couch. But for our furry, four-legged friends, some of our favorite Thanksgiving dishes can pose a risk. Thanksgiving coincides with a rise in emerg West Africa responds to huge diphtheria outbreaks by targeting unvaccinated populations 11/23/2023 03:40pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities in several West African countries are trying to manage their huge diphtheria outbreaks, including in Nigeria where a top health official said Thursday that millions are being vaccinated to cover wide gaps in immunity against the disease. At least 573 people out of WHO asks China for more information about rise in illnesses and pneumonia clusters 11/23/2023 02:43pm • GENEVA (AP) — Chinese officials say they did not detect any “unusual or novel diseases” in the country, the World Health Organization said Thursday, following an official request by the U.N. health agency for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters El Niño-worsened flooding has Somalia in a state of emergency. Residents of one town are desperate 11/23/2023 02:28pm • MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — First, some families fled drought and violence. Now they say they have nowhere to hide from intense flooding as rainfall exacerbated by the weather phenomenon El Niño pummels large parts of Somalia. Floods have killed at least 96 people, the country’s Council of Minist Some of the longest emergency room wait times in Maryland can stretch almost a whole day 11/23/2023 09:51am • With increased risks of food poisoning, burns from cooking, car accident injuries and the rise of wintertime ailments like the flu, the holiday season can result in more trips to emergency rooms. But in Maryland, higher rates of emergency room visits may exacerbate an existing issue: it can take Portraits of those held hostage after Hamas attack on Israel 11/23/2023 09:31am • A temporary cease-fire deal that would facilitate the release of dozens of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza offers a glimmer of hope to families and friends of those who have been held captive since their abduction from southern Israel by militants on Oct. 7. In all, roughly 240 people were taken to G Ukraine says 3 civilians were killed in a daylight Russian cluster bomb attack 11/23/2023 09:06am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian attack using cluster munitions killed three people Thursday in a suburb of Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson, a Ukrainian official said, bringing the number of civilians to die in a day of war to at least six. Five people were wounded in what Ukrainian Interior Small Kentucky town urged to evacuate after train derails, spilling chemical 11/23/2023 08:39am • MOUNT VERNON, Ky. (AP) — A train derailed and spilled a chemical in a remote part of eastern Kentucky on Wednesday, prompting officials to encourage residents of a small town to evacuate amid concerns about air quality. Gov. Andy Beshear said in a statement that local officials in Rockcastle Coun How the hostage deal came about: Negotiations stumbled, but persistence finally won out 11/23/2023 07:42am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The negotiations hardly ran smoothly. But in the end, persistence paid off. Six weeks ago, not long after Hamas killed more than 1,200 people in Israel and took scores of others hostage in a surprise assault, the government of Qatar quietly reached out to the United States to dis Chinese refugee challenges Australian law that imposes a curfew and tracking bracelet 11/23/2023 05:45am • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Lawyers for a Chinese refugee claim the tough new measures rushed through Australia’s Parliament to mandate curfews and electronic tracking bracelets on some foreigners with criminal records are unconstitutional, challenging them in the High Court. The man, identified