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'There is a huge stigma': Maryland mom shares her daughter's autism journey to help others 09/23/2025 06:45am • The debate over the cause of autism is back in the news. One mom in Maryland is sharing her journey after her daughter was diagnosed with the condition. "There is a huge stigma," said Jennifer Amoako, who lives in Frederick County. Amoako said she realized when her daughter Saiylor was an infa More experts see genocide in Israel's wartime conduct in Gaza 09/23/2025 05:19am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A growing number of experts, including those commissioned by a U.N. body, have said Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip amounts to genocide, deepening Israel’s isolation and risking untold damage to the country’s standing even among allies. The accusation is ve Italian workers' strike in solidarity with Gaza brings disruptions across the country 09/23/2025 03:02am • ROME (AP) — Thousands of protesters and strikers calling for solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza took to the streets in Italy on Monday, with some storming Milan’s central train station and clashing violently with police. Italy’s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of peo The Padres earn a playoff spot for the 4th time in 6 seasons 09/23/2025 02:54am • SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Padres are headed back to the playoffs for the fourth time in six seasons. The Padres clinched a playoff berth with a 5-4, 11-inning win against the three-time NL Central champion Milwaukee Brewers on Monday night. Freddy Fermin, acquired from Kansas City at the trad What you will and won't see at this year's UN General Assembly 09/23/2025 02:04am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The annual high-level gathering at the U.N. General Assembly this week will see more than 140 world leaders descend upon New York City in an effort to secure global peace and security despite growing divides on how to do that. Nearly 90 heads of state, 43 heads of government Spain's top diplomat dismisses Israeli leader's vow of no Palestinian state, saying it will happen 09/23/2025 01:59am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Spain’s top diplomat dismissed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement that there will never be a Palestinian state, saying Israelis will one day want to live side by side in peace with Palestinians. Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said in an interview Drone attack in gang-controlled slum in Haiti kills at least 8 children, injures 6 others 09/23/2025 01:49am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Explosive drones targeting a suspected gang leader killed at least eight children inside a slum in Haiti’s capital and seriously wounded six others, relatives and activists told The Associated Press on Monday, as they blamed police for the attack. The explosions happ North Carolina Republicans push for tougher bail rules and potentially new execution methods 09/23/2025 12:51am • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislators are poised this week to approve criminal justice measures designed to toughen bail rules, restrict magistrates' powers and evaluate offenders' mental health after the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte commuter train. The Indonesia's clean energy future is at the center of a supply struggle between the US and China 09/23/2025 12:41am • The race to replace coal in Indonesia, the world’s largest coal exporter, has become a contest between the U.S. and China. At stake is not only Indonesia’s climate future, but also which superpower sets the terms for the next generation of energy in the developing world. Like much of the develop Japan's most sacred Shinto shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years for more than a millennium 09/23/2025 12:21am • ISE, Japan (AP) — Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so that they strike from three directions. An hour later, the head woodcutter shouts, “A tree is falli Trump makes unfounded claims about Tylenol and repeats discredited link between vaccines and autism 09/23/2025 12:15am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday used the platform of the presidency to promote unproven and in some cases discredited ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism as his administration announced a wide-ranging effort to study the causes of the complex brain disorder. “Don't take Takeaways from AP's report on Japan's most sacred shrine, rebuilt every 20 years for a millennium 09/23/2025 12:09am • ISE, Japan (AP) — Every two decades for the last 1,300 years, Ise Jingu, Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine, has been knocked down and rebuilt from scratch. The massive, $390 million demolition and construction job takes about nine years. It requires the country’s finest carpenters, woodcutter Editorial Roundup: United States 09/22/2025 10:53pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Sept. 19 The New York Times says the Trump Administration is trying to punish free speech A founding principle of the United States, enshrined in the Constitution’s opening amendment, is that our republic depends on citizens’ f White House backs 'border czar' after reports he accepted cash during undercover FBI probe last year 09/22/2025 10:33pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House stood behind “border czar” Tom Homan on Monday following reports that he had accepted $50,000 from undercover agents posing as businesspeople during an undercover FBI operation last year, leading to a bribery investigation that was shut down by the Trump admin Pietrangelo hopes to avoid surgery, possibly play for Golden Knights this season 09/22/2025 10:30pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — Defenseman Alex Pietrangelo has not ruled out playing again for the Golden Knights — even this season — hoping to avoid surgery as he goes through rehabilitation on his injured hip. Vegas placed him on long-term injured reserve earlier this year, which gave the Golden Knights