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Last year's deadly heat wave in metro Phoenix didn't discriminate 05/28/2024 12:05am • PHOENIX (AP) ��� Priscilla Orr, 75, was living in her old white Kia in a supermarket parking lot last summer after telling her family she lost her money and home to a romance scam. But the car broke down, and the air conditioner stopped working, leaving her vulnerable to the dangerous desert heat. O Nonacademic Factors to Consider When Choosing a College 05/27/2024 08:00pm • Although attending college is about getting an education, potential students don't pick an institution based solely on available academic programs. There are nonacademic considerations, as students want to feel connected to campus, be in a safe environment and have job opportunities post-graduation. South Korean, Chinese and Japanese leaders discuss thorny topics and ways to boost cooperation 05/26/2024 09:58am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� The Japanese and South Korean leaders raised sensitive topics like Taiwan, North Korea and the South China Sea as well as ways to boost cooperation when they individually met China's premier Sunday on the eve of a fuller trilateral meeting. It was unclear how serious dis Va. Attorney General Miyares challenging heavy truck emissions rule and other federal proposals 05/25/2024 11:48pm • Joining 23 conservative-led states��� efforts, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has signed on to legal challenges to new federal rules designed to advance emission reductions and address what scientists say is causing extreme weather events. Miyares has challenged several rules, including Millions vote in India's grueling election with Prime Minister Modi's party likely to win third term 05/25/2024 09:44am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� Millions of Indians voted Saturday in the next-to-last round of a grueling national election with a combined opposition trying to rattle Prime Minister Narendra Modi���s campaign for a third-consecutive term for himself and his Hindu nationalist party. Many people lined polling st Adult day services provide stimulation for older Americans, and respite for full-time caregivers 05/24/2024 10:13pm • PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) ��� Sally White helps her husband of 46 years get dressed, fed and on the bus for the short ride from their home to Third Age Adult Day Center four mornings a week. Preparing 74-year-old Rodger White to leave the house for the day can be a chore since he���s been in declining The Latest | Israel must stop Rafah offensive and open border for aid, UN court rules 05/24/2024 08:29pm • The International Court of Justice on Friday ordered Israel to end its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah and to open the nearby border crossing for crucial humanitarian aid. The top United Nations court also said Israel must give war crimes investigators access to Gaza. However, France is proud of its secularism. But struggles grow in this approach to faith, school, integration 05/23/2024 08:26am • MARSEILLE, France (AP) ��� Brought into the international spotlight by the ban on hijabs for French athletes at the upcoming Paris Olympics, France���s unique approach to ���la��cit����� ��� loosely translated as ���secularism��� ��� has been increasingly stirring controversy from schools to sports How does this end? With Hamas holding firm and fighting back in Gaza, Israel faces only bad options 05/23/2024 08:10am • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Diminished but not deterred, Hamas is still putting up a fight after seven brutal months of war with Israel, regrouping in some of the hardest-hit areas in northern Gaza and resuming rocket attacks into nearby Israeli communities. Israel initially made tactical advances against Ha Leaders of South Korea, China and Japan will meet Monday for their first trilateral talks since 2019 05/23/2024 07:09am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� Leaders of South Korea, China and Japan will meet next week in Seoul for their first trilateral talks in more than four years to discuss how to revive their cooperation, South Korea���s presidential office said Thursday. After their inaugural stand-alone trilateral summi Texas health department appoints anti-abortion OB-GYN to maternal mortality committee 05/22/2024 08:11pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� Texas' health department has appointed an outspoken anti-abortion OB-GYN to a committee that reviews pregnancy-related deaths as doctors have been warning that the state���s restrictive abortion ban puts women���s lives at risk. Dr. Ingrid Skop was among the new appointees to The Latest | In historic move, a Palestinian state recognized by Spain, Ireland and Norway 05/22/2024 05:02pm • Norway, Ireland and Spain said Wednesday they were recognizing a Palestinian state, a move welcomed by Palestinians as an affirmation of their decadeslong quest while Israel recalled its ambassadors to the three countries. Several countries in the European Union indicated in recent weeks they plan Sites with radioactive material more vulnerable as climate change increases wildfire, flood risks 05/22/2024 12:22pm • Climate change increasingly threatens some of the nation's most sensitive sites, including research laboratories, military facilities and power plants with radioactive material. Extreme heat and drought, longer fire seasons with larger, more intense blazes and supercharged rainstorms that can lead t How 2 debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 fueled a global dispute over Israel-Hamas war 05/22/2024 03:20am • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Chaim Otmazgin had tended to dozens of shot, burned or mutilated bodies before he reached the home that would put him at the center of a global clash. Working in a kibbutz that was ravaged by Hamas��� Oct. 7 attack, Otmazgin ��� a volunteer commander with ZAKA, an Israeli search a Sites with radioactive material more vulnerable as climate change increases wildfire, flood risks 05/22/2024 01:04am • As Texas wildfires burned toward the nation's primary nuclear weapons facility, workers hurried to ensure nothing flammable was around buildings and storage areas. When the fires showed no sign of slowing, Pantex Plant officials urgently called on local contractors, who arrived within minutes with