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Lack of birth certificates puts Cameroon’s Indigenous people on the brink of statelessness 09/22/2024 12:10am • MAYOS, Cameroon (AP) — The morning sun filtered through the forest canopy, casting dappled light on this village in Cameroon. For the Baka Indigenous community, it was a timeless image. But a passing truck broke the silence and stirred up billows of dust, a reminder that the Baka now live an uneas Election 2024 Latest: Trump and Harris campaign for undecided voters with just 6 weeks left 09/20/2024 07:36pm • Vice President Kamala Harris gave a speech Friday focused squarely on abortion rights to voters in Georgia, where news reports have documented women’s deaths in the face of the state’s six-week ban. Meanwhile, lawmakers are scrambling to ensure that the U.S. Secret Service has enough money and r Voters split on whether Harris or Trump would do a better job on the economy: AP-NORC poll 09/20/2024 10:25am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Going into November's election, neither Kamala Harris nor Donald Trump has a decisive edge with the public on the economy, turning an issue that was once a clear strength for Trump into the equivalent of a political jump ball. About 4 in 10 registered voters say Republican Trump Western nations were desperate for Korean babies. Now many adoptees believe they were stolen 09/20/2024 12:32am • Yooree Kim marched into a police station in Paris and told an officer she wanted to report a crime. Forty years ago, she said, she was kidnapped from the other side of the world, and the French government endorsed it. She wept as she described years spent piecing it together, stymied at every turn How to Pay for Senior Living 09/19/2024 08:00pm • It's no secret that saving for retirement is a good idea. And for many older adults, retirement expenses often include senior living, which can be pricey. In this article, we'll go thought the many different types of senior living, what their average costs are and how you can financially prepare for Republicans are trying a new approach to abortion in the race for Congress 09/19/2024 06:28pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — In the most contested races for control of the U.S. House, many Republican candidates are speaking up about women’s rights to abortion access and reproductive care in new and surprising ways, a deliberate shift for a GOP blindsided by some political ramifications of the post-Ro Instagram makes teen accounts private as pressure mounts on the app to protect children 09/19/2024 01:13pm • Instagram is making teen accounts private by default as it tries to make the platform safer for children amid a growing backlash against how social media affects young people's lives. Beginning Tuesday in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia, anyone under 18 who signs up for Instagram will be place What to know about the two waves of deadly explosions that hit Lebanon and Syria 09/19/2024 01:08pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Just one day after pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded, more electronic devices detonated in Lebanon Wednesday in what appeared to be a second wave of sophisticated, deadly attacks that targeted an extraordinary number of people. Both attacks The exploding device attacks dealt a major but not crippling blow to Hezbollah, analysts say 09/19/2024 11:34am • BEIRUT (AP) — The waves of remotely triggered explosions that hit pagers and walkie-talkies carried by Hezbollah members in grocery stores, on streets and at a funeral procession this week made for an eerie and shocking spectacle. Analysts said Hezbollah will be able to regroup militarily and find Relentless fighting is devastating Sudan and escalating in Darfur's capital, UN says 09/19/2024 12:47am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Relentless violence has devastated Sudan and large-scale fighting has escalated in and around the only capital in Sudan’s western Darfur region not held by paramilitary forces, the United Nations top humanitarian official said Wednesday. Acting humanitarian chief Joyce Msuy Suspension of security clearance for Iran envoy did not follow protocol, watchdog says 09/18/2024 11:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department’s internal watchdog concluded Wednesday that officials did not follow proper protocol when handling the security clearance suspension of the U.S. special envoy for Iran following allegations last year that he may have mishandled classified information. The A Hungarian company is linked to the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria 09/18/2024 02:17pm • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — In a duplex in a quiet neighborhood of the Hungarian capital is the headquarters of a company that is linked to the manufacture of the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria as part of an apparent Israeli operation against the Hezbollah militant group. BAC Consulting sh An American pastor detained in China for nearly 20 years has been released 09/16/2024 02:43pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A Christian pastor from California has been freed from China after nearly 20 years behind bars and is back home in the U.S., the State Department said Monday. David Lin, 68, was detained after he entered China in 2006, later convicted of contract fraud and sentenced to life in pr 1st Latina appointed to a key DC government role says she wants to help others prosper 09/16/2024 06:57am • If Jackie Reyes-Yanes could talk to her younger self, newly arrived in D.C. from El Salvador, she would tell Little Jackie, who didn't speak any English: "This is the best city in the world if you want to become somebody. I wouldn't have these opportunities back home." Now, 34 years later, she's Tech billionaire pulls off first private spacewalk high above Earth 09/12/2024 02:09pm • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A tech billionaire popped out from a SpaceX capsule hundreds of miles above Earth and performed the first private spacewalk Thursday, a high-risk endeavor once reserved for professional astronauts. Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman teamed up with SpaceX to test the compa