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UK, Lithuania and Latvia detain people over allegations of arson and spying for Russia 09/18/2025 08:49am • VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — British, Lithuanian and Latvian authorities have detained several people on suspicion of carrying out intelligence-related activities on behalf of Russia in the latest of a string of incidents to be linked to Moscow by Western officials. London's Metropolitan Police forc Connect Four, lightsabers, Furbies ... and snow: Which playthings belong in the Toy Hall of Fame? 09/18/2025 08:15am • Later this year, the National Toy Hall of Fame could induct snow — yes, the cold, white stuff that falls from the sky. But only if it ices out enough of the competition — a group that features hugely popular board games, outdoor favorites and giggling plushies. The Hall of Fame announced its George Soros' philanthropy reaches for new ideas as it grapples with the limits of its power 09/18/2025 08:07am • NEW YORK (AP) — Open Society Foundations, the family philanthropy of hedge fund billionaire George Soros, has consistently been one of the largest funders of human rights organizations around the world. But what that means has changed in recent years, with a new focus on addressing inequality. “ Syria's foreign minister is in Washington for the first visit by a Damascus official in 25 years 09/18/2025 07:36am • DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s foreign minister was in Washington on Thursday, kicking off the first official visit to the United States by a top Syrian official in 25 years as the new government in Damascus struggles to recover from the civil war and boost relations with the West following the Pakistanis displaced by flooding in Punjab return to find homes and crops destroyed 09/18/2025 07:36am • KHANEWAL, Pakistan (AP) — Most of the 2.6 million people displaced by record floods in Pakistan’s Punjab province have returned home to find their houses damaged and their crops destroyed, as authorities promised Thursday to compensate all victims. Flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rains and w Surprise winner at the worlds thanks doping police for leveling the playing field 09/18/2025 07:35am • TOKYO (AP) — Instead of thanking his parents or his coach, the surprise winner of the men's 10,000 meters at the world championships gave a tip of the cap to the drug police. Jimmy Gressier of France stunned the field to capture the country's first gold medal of the championships after the track t Darden Restaurants: Fiscal Q1 Earnings Snapshot 09/18/2025 07:06am • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Darden Restaurants Inc. (DRI) on Thursday reported fiscal first-quarter earnings of $257.8 million. On a per-share basis, the Orlando, Florida-based company said it had profit of $2.19. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $1.97 per s FactSet: Fiscal Q4 Earnings Snapshot 09/18/2025 06:19am • NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — FactSet Research Systems Inc. (FDS) on Thursday reported fiscal fourth-quarter net income of $153.6 million. The Norwalk, Connecticut-based company said it had net income of $4.03 per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $4.0 Today in History: September 18, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies 09/18/2025 04:10am • Today is Thursday, Sept. 18, the 261st day of 2025. There are 104 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 18, 2020, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a towering champion of women’s rights who became the court’s second female justice, died at her home in Washington at age 87, Australia targets at least 62% emissions cut in the next decade 09/18/2025 04:00am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia on Thursday set a new target of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by between 62% and 70% below 2005 levels by 2035. The new target adds to Australia’s ambition of a 43% cut by the end of this decade and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Prime Ministe In coastal Ghana, female oyster farmers try to save an old practice threatened by climate change 09/18/2025 02:10am • TSOKOMEY, Ghana (AP) — Beatrice Nutekpor weaves through the mangroves in Tsokomey community, just outside of Ghana’s capital of Accra, every day to harvest oysters for sale. It’s a family tradition she’s been doing since she was 15. Now 45, she is struggling to sustain the practice and pass Photos show Ghana's female oyster farmers sustaining a generational practice 09/18/2025 01:48am • TSOKOMEY, Ghana (AP) — In Ghana’s coastal mangroves, women are making efforts to sustain oyster farming, a key livelihood in coastal mangroves. Hundreds of women in the West African nation were trained in eco-friendly farming methods for oysters, including mangrove planting and preservation, but Anthony Roth Costanzo, who introduced $11 tickets, brings opera with a difference to Philadelphia 09/18/2025 12:24am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Anthony Roth Costanzo, the man who brought $11 opera tickets to Philadelphia, hopes to keep surprising audiences during the company’s new season. “It is very much opera. It’s dramatic, it’s cathartic, it’s collaborative in interdisciplinary ways,” Costanzo said of O 3 police officers killed and 2 injured in rural Pennsylvania shooting 09/17/2025 11:06pm • NORTH CODORUS, Pa. (AP) — Three police officers were fatally shot and two wounded Wednesday in southern Pennsylvania, and the shooter was killed by police, authorities said. The officers were at the scene, amid rolling farmland, to follow up on a domestic-related investigation that began the pr ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show indefinitely over his remarks about Charlie Kirk’s death 09/17/2025 10:42pm • NEW YORK (AP) — ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely beginning Wednesday after comments that he made about Charlie Kirk's killing led a group of ABC-affiliated stations to say it would not air the show and provoked some ominous comments from a top federal regulator. The vete