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Noteworthy and influential people who've died this year 11/05/2025 03:56pm • Known around the world for her groundbreaking research on chimpanzees, conservationist Jane Goodall was among a number of noteworthy people who died in October. Her immersive chimpanzee field research documented the primates��� personalities and use of tools. And she became a household name through The Latest: Democrats notch wins for governors, mayor over Trump���s picks 11/05/2025 12:15am • Voters in races across the country backed Democrats, including in New York���s mayoral race and contests for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, rejecting President Donald Trump���s late and lightweight push for his preferred candidates. Democrats secured another expected win in California, where v Mayors pledge coordinated climate action ahead of UN conference in Brazil 11/04/2025 09:30am • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� Just days ahead of the U.N. climate conference to be held in Brazil, a group of 300 mayors gathered Monday in Rio de Janeiro to pledge coordinated climate action and address rising heat that is hurting many of their residents. The summit was organized by C40, a network of mayors US seeks humanitarian truce in Sudan while ICC looks at el-Fasher rampage 11/03/2025 11:00am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ��� The United States is working with both sides in Sudan���s war for a possible humanitarian truce, a U.S. envoy told The Associated Press on Monday, while International Criminal Court prosecutors said they are trying to preserve evidence from last week's rampage through Aid efforts struggle to bring relief to parts of hurricane-stricken Jamaica 11/01/2025 09:50pm • KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) ��� Rescuers and aid workers fanned out across Jamaica on Saturday to distribute food and water and reach communities still isolated four days after Hurricane Melissa hit the island. Essential relief supplies are now rolling into hurricane-stricken St. Elizabeth and Westmor Government shutdown offers schools a glimpse of life without an Education Department 10/31/2025 12:05am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The government shutdown has been a source of anxiety for school leaders wondering how long grant money will last and who can help them interpret federal laws. For Education Secretary Linda McMahon, it offers a preview of what she hopes to make permanent. Much of the department��� How Americans feel about changing the clocks, according to a new AP-NORC poll 10/30/2025 08:54am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Yes, you���ll get a shot at an extra hour���s sleep. But even with that, it might be one of the most dreaded weekends on the American calendar: the end of daylight saving time. Only 12% of U.S. adults favor the current system of daylight saving time, which has people in most states Sudan's paramilitary forces killed hundreds at a hospital in Darfur, residents and aid workers say 10/29/2025 09:11pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� Sudan's paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people at a hospital, including patients, after they seized the provincial capital of North Darfur over the weekend, according to the U.N., displaced residents and aid workers, who described harrowing details of the atrocities. The 460 pa What shutdown? Trump isn't canceling travel, golf or his ballroom even with the government shuttered 10/29/2025 06:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump isn't curtailing travel. He's not avoiding golf or making do with a skeleton staff in the West Wing. Even hamburgers served at the White House aren't from McDonalds, this time. In shutdowns past ��� including during Trump's first term ��� presidents normal The Latest: Judge orders senior Border Patrol official to meet her daily to discuss use of force 10/28/2025 06:33pm • U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis on Tuesday ordered a senior U.S. Border Patrol official to meet her daily ���to hear about how the day went��� after weeks of confrontations between immigration agents and the public in the Chicago area. The immigration sweeps from Operation Midway Blitz have produced Abortion, the economy, education: Where Virginia lieutenant governor candidates stand on the issues 10/28/2025 04:04am • The race for lieutenant governor between Democrat Ghazala Hashmi and Republican John Reid is shaping up to be the closest of Virginia���s statewide contests. Hashmi, a state senator, holds a narrow one-point lead over Reid, a conservative radio host, according to an October poll from the VCU The Latest: Trump meets with Japan���s newly elected, first female leader, Sanae Takaichi 10/27/2025 09:56pm • U.S. President Donald Trump is meeting with Japan's newly elected, ultraconservative leader in Tokyo during one of the busiest days of his Asia trip, the itinerary of which includes speaking to U.S. troops aboard an aircraft carrier and mingling with business leaders. Just days after taking office, The Latest: Trump in Tokyo to meet with Japan���s newly elected, first female leader, Sanae Takaichi 10/27/2025 05:54pm • U.S. President Donald Trump is in Japan and preparing to meet with the country���s newly elected, ultraconservative leader. It's one of the busiest days of his Asia trip, which will include speaking to U.S. troops aboard an aircraft carrier and mingling with business leaders. Just days after taking World's oldest president, Paul Biya, wins Cameroon election at 92 10/27/2025 03:48pm • YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) ��� The world's oldest president, Cameroon 's 92-year-old Paul Biya, has won election again, the country's top court said Monday, after days of protesters' clashes with security forces left at least four people dead as opposition supporters demanded credible results. Biya has Sermons urge youth to take part in public affairs in Morocco after wave of protests 10/27/2025 02:13am • RABAT, Morocco (AP) ��� Worshippers sat shoeless on the red-carpeted floor of a mosque in Morocco's capital in silence, listening to a preacher in a raised pulpit reading a government-written sermon urging parents to involve their children in public affairs. The sermon, heard in mosques across the k