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South Korea's top diplomat says his nation has asked Trump to be a 'peacemaker' with North Korea 09/26/2025 11:56pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — South Korea’s president has asked President Donald Trump to become “a peacemaker” and use his leadership to get North Korea to talks to reduce military tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the South’s top diplomat said Friday. Trump “welcomed” the request from Presid Tropical weather in the Atlantic is slamming the Caribbean and may strike Southeast US next 09/26/2025 11:17pm • MIAMI (AP) — Dangerous tropical weather brewed Friday in the Atlantic Ocean with Humberto intensifying into a powerful Category 4 hurricane and a system forecasters dubbed “Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine” striking the Caribbean and taking aim at the Southeast United States. Hurricane Humberto UN Security Council rejects Russia and China's last-ditch effort to delay sanctions on Iran 09/26/2025 11:07pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Friday rejected a last-ditch effort to delay reimposing sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, a decision that the country's president immediately called “unfair, unjust and illegal.” The decision on the “snapback sanctions” came a da They said it: Leaders at the UN, in their own words 09/26/2025 10:59pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Many leaders saying many things about many topics that matter to them, to their regions, to the world: That’s what the U.N. General Assembly invariably produces each year. And each year, certain voices dominate. Here, The Associated Press takes the opposite approach and spo The Latest: Supreme Court keeps Trump’s $5 billion foreign aid funding freeze in place 09/26/2025 09:54pm • The Supreme Court on Friday extended an order that allows President Donald Trump ’s administration to keep frozen nearly $5 billion in foreign aid, handing him another victory in a dispute over presidential power. With the three liberal justices in dissent, the court’s conservative majority gran A conviction may be beside the point for the Justice Department as it pursues case against Comey 09/26/2025 09:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — For a Justice Department facing intense White House pressure to investigate perceived presidential enemies, indicting former FBI Director James Comey was the easy part. Building a case that can sway a jury beyond a reasonable doubt is a significantly tougher task, but like in ot 16 states sue the Trump administration over threats to pull funding for sex ed on gender diversity 09/26/2025 08:59pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Sixteen states and the District of Columbia sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Friday, alleging that its threats to pull sexual education funding over curricula mentioning diverse gender identities were a violation of federal law. The complaint filed in Families of Mexico's 43 disappeared students demand truth and justice 11 years later 09/26/2025 08:17pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — The words “truth and justice” rang out from crowds of protesters flooding a central boulevard in Mexico City on Friday, just as they have every Sept. 26 since the disappearance of 43 Mexican students that shook the country in 2014. Friday's protest came exactly 11 years afte Power outage hits three states in southeast Mexico, president says 09/26/2025 07:42pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Power was knocked out to more than 2 million customers in three states in southeast Mexico Friday after a problem with a transmission line, the country's president said. President Claudia Sheinbaum said via X that technicians from Mexico’s state-owned power company, known as C Neko Case's 'formidable' new album invites multiple musicians for a big sound 09/26/2025 06:39pm • If Neko Case had just one word to describe her first solo album in seven years, she would settle on “formidable.” Fair enough. Writers have twisted themselves into knots trying to describe Case's sound — “gothic Americana” is one iteration — yet it's generally a thrill ride through shift GLIMPSES: At UN gathering, diplomats speak through clothes, not just words 09/26/2025 06:18pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Some call it a useless bureaucracy. Others praise it as a key tool of humanitarian aid, peacemaking and global diplomacy. Whatever their core beliefs, nearly every national leader agrees the United Nations is a valuable stage to make their case before the world. And it's a st China's No. 2 leader, in debut of sorts on world stage at UN, echoes his nation's concern about US 09/26/2025 06:04pm • NEW YORK (AP) — China's second-in-command sounded his nation's oft-repeated alarm against aggressive and unilateral action in global politics, addressing world leaders Friday in a speech brimming with references that echoed long-standing concerns about the United States and the Trump administratio Trump escalates retribution campaign with charges against Comey and threats against liberal groups 09/26/2025 05:38pm • NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's unprecedented retribution campaign against his perceived political enemies reached new heights as his Justice Department brought criminal charges against a longtime foe and he expanded his efforts to classify certain liberal groups as “domestic terrorist Wisconsin Republican Bill Berrien quits governor's race amid fallout over sexually explicit links 09/26/2025 05:29pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin business owner Bill Berrien, a supporter of President Donald Trump, ended his Republican campaign for governor on Friday, days after it was reported that he followed numerous sexually explicit accounts online, including a nonbinary pornography performer. Berrien, a Des Moines Public Schools superintendent detained by ICE 09/26/2025 05:22pm • The superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Friday, according to the school district. ICE said Ian Roberts was in the country illegally from Guyana and was working as a superintendent despite having "a final order of removal and no w