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California lawsuit says makers of plastic bags lied about products being recyclable 10/17/2025 07:43pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California ramped up its efforts to curb plastic pollution Friday — suing three plastic-bag makers, alleging the companies falsely claimed their products were recyclable. State Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, said companies Novolex Holdings, Inteplast Group and Israel received coffin of missing hostage handed over to Red Cross, prime minister's office says 10/17/2025 07:11pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel received the remains of another hostage from Gaza on Friday, the prime minister’s office said, a handover from Hamas as the militant group worked to shore up a ceasefire by using bulldozers in a search for bodies under the rubble in the war-scarred enclave Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow deployment of National Guard in Chicago area 10/17/2025 06:37pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to allow the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area, escalating President Donald Trump's conflict with Democratic governors over using the military on U.S. soil. The emergency appeal to the high court cam From bills to berets: Notable moments from NYC's contentious mayoral debate 10/17/2025 06:05pm • New York City's mayoral candidates duked it out in their first general election debate Thursday night, with contenders Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa sparring over everything from the Israel-Hamas war to the city's education system. In addition to policy issues, the candidates also m Fairfax County schools deny allegation social worker arranged, funded student abortions 10/17/2025 05:49pm • Fairfax County Public Schools is denying allegations made by one of its teachers that a social worker employed by the school system facilitated student abortions, and said its investigation has determined the teacher fabricated the accusation, likely as retaliation against the social worker. The Bolton pleads not guilty in Justice Department case accusing him of sharing government secrets 10/17/2025 05:21pm • GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — John Bolton pleaded not guilty Friday to charges accusing the former Trump national security adviser turned critic of emailing classified information to family members and keeping top secret documents at his Maryland home. Bolton was ordered released from custody after makin FBI says a Louisiana resident assisted Hamas and lied on his US visa application 10/17/2025 04:54pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The FBI has accused a Louisiana resident of participating in the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, then lying about his past and fraudulently obtaining a visa to live in the U.S. According to an FBI criminal complaint unsealed this week, Mahmoud Amin Ya'qub Al-Muhtadi From Spice Girl to fashion mogul, Victoria Beckham grabs the chance to tell her own tale 10/17/2025 04:43pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Now here’s something you might not quite believe about Victoria Beckham, glam Spice Girl turned high-profile fashion designer: At theater school, they purposely put her in the back row. Because she was too heavy. “It was really difficult,” she says now of the memory from her Ames National: Q3 Earnings Snapshot 10/17/2025 04:18pm • AMES, Iowa (AP) — AMES, Iowa (AP) — Ames National Corp. (ATLO) on Friday reported third-quarter earnings of $4.6 million. The Ames, Iowa-based bank said it had earnings of 51 cents per share. The bank posted revenue of $24.4 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $16.6 mi Indiana University fires student newspaper adviser who refused to block news stories 10/17/2025 04:09pm • Tension between Indiana University and its student newspaper flared this week with the elimination of the outlet's print editions and the firing of a faculty adviser, who refused an order to keep news stories out of a homecoming edition. Administrators may have been hoping to minimize distractions t Regional banks' bad loans spark concerns on Wall Street 10/17/2025 03:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is concerned about the health of the nation’s regional banks, after a few of them wrote off bad loans to commercial customers in the last two weeks and caused investors to wonder if there might be more bad news to come. Zions Bank, Western Alliance Bank and the inves Arizona executes a man for killing 4 members of a family in Phoenix in 1993 10/17/2025 03:54pm • FLORENCE, Arizona (AP) — A man convicted of killing four members of a Phoenix family over 30 years ago in an act of revenge over stolen goods was put to death Friday in Arizona’s second execution of the year. Richard Kenneth Djerf, 55, died by lethal injection for the killings of Albert Luna Sr. GOP turns Schumer print quotes into AI-generated video of him saying shutdown good for Democrats 10/17/2025 03:52pm • Senate Republican campaign leaders are using artificial intelligence-generated video to falsely depict Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer appearing to say on camera comments he made in a print publication interview about the political impacts of the partial government shutdown. The 30-second di Daily struggles persist in Gaza even as ceasefire offers some respite 10/17/2025 03:45pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Bassil Naggar can finally sleep without getting jolted awake by the sounds of Israeli airstrikes. For Naggar and his displaced family, and for many in Gaza facing similar challenges, the ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war has provided a much-needed respite from a tw Police in Afghanistan accuse Pakistan of cross-border strikes after ceasefire ends 10/17/2025 03:38pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's military carried out strikes in southeastern Afghanistan on Friday just hours after a two-day ceasefire between the neighboring countries expired, an Afghan police official said. The bombings struck southeastern Paktika province and two other areas close to the Pakista