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Georgia officer kills a man who attacked a firefighter with a machete, police say 10/27/2025 04:36pm • WRIGHTSVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A police officer who was talking to a firefighter outside a Georgia convenience store shot and killed a man who drove up to the store and began attacking the firefighter with a machete, authorities said Monday. After arriving at the store in a vehicle, the man walked over Local GOP official's social media post draws backlash in Kentucky for its depiction of the Obamas 10/27/2025 04:17pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A local Republican leader in Kentucky shared a social media video depicting former President Barack Obama and his wife as apes, a historically racist trope that has ignited a backlash and a strong rebuke from the state GOP for the since-deleted post. The post by Bobbie Colema Jack DeJohnette, acclaimed jazz drummer who worked with Miles Davis, dies at 83 10/27/2025 03:33pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Jack DeJohnette, a celebrated jazz drummer who worked with Miles Davis on his landmark 1970 fusion album and collaborated with Keith Jarrett and a vast array of other jazz greats, has died at 83. The acclaimed drummer, bandleader and composer died Sunday in Kingston, New York, of c Ukraine mourns two journalists killed by a Russian drone strike 10/27/2025 03:32pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Mourners gathered at a church in Kyiv on Monday to honor two Ukrainian journalists killed last week when a Russian drone struck their car in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. War correspondent Olena Hubanova, who worked under the pseudonym Alyona Gramova, and cameraman Yevhe Guyana says targeted attack on gas station killed 8-year-old girl and injured 4 others 10/27/2025 03:23pm • GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana’s government said Monday that it is investigating what it called a terrorist attack on a gas station that caused a car to explode, killing an 8-year-old girl and injuring four other people, two of them seriously. The attack occurred late Sunday in the capital, Ge Putin brandishes a new nuclear-powered missile as he digs in over Russia's demands on Ukraine 10/27/2025 01:17pm • By holding nuclear drills and boasting about a successful test of a pioneering atomic-powered cruise missile, Russian President Vladimir Putin is sending a message to President Donald Trump: Moscow won’t be cowed into making concessions on Ukraine. Facing Trump’s call for a quick ceasefire and b UConn aims for consecutive championships as women's college basketball season nears tipoff 10/27/2025 01:03pm • Geno Auriemma led UConn back to the top of women's college basketball last season as the Huskies won their 12th national championship. The top-ranked team in the AP preseason poll will try and become the first team to repeat as champions since the Huskies won four in a row from 2013-16. It won't be Two strong quakes in the Atlantic Ocean rattle the eastern Caribbean 10/27/2025 12:53pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck Monday in open waters in the Atlantic Ocean and was felt throughout the eastern Caribbean, officials said. The quake occurred about 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe at a depth of six miles (1 LSU fires coach Brian Kelly in the 4th season of his 10-year, $100 million deal 10/27/2025 11:06am • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — LSU fired coach Brian Kelly during the fourth season of a 10-year contract worth about $100 million, athletic director Scott Woodward announced Sunday night. The move comes on the heels of Saturday night's 49-25 loss to No. 3 Texas A&M in Tiger Stadium — a second straight Former Jets center Nick Mangold dies at 41, less than 2 weeks after announcing he had kidney disease 10/27/2025 11:05am • Nick Mangold's long, blond hair and bushy beard made him instantly recognizable. His gritty, outstanding performances on the field for the New York Jets made him one of the franchise's greatest players. Mangold, a two-time All-Pro center who helped lead the Jets to the AFC championship game twice, h Kremlin says its test of a nuclear-powered missile reflects security concerns 10/27/2025 10:37am • Russia’s test of a nuclear-powered missile that it claims can’t be stopped by air defenses reflects Moscow’s determination to look out for its security interests, a Kremlin official said Monday, after the United States and European countries increased pressure on President Vladimir Putin to ne Today in Sports - Russell Westbrook has 51 point triple-double, first since 1975 10/27/2025 10:10am • Oct. 28 1939 — Kansas State’s homecoming contest against Nebraska is the second college football game ever televised, following the Fordham-Waynesburg contest in New York earlier this fall. The Cornhuskers spoil homecoming with a 25-9 triumph in Manhattan, Kan., before a limited Nebraska ETV aud By the Numbers: Why trick-or-treaters may bag more gummy candy than chocolate this Halloween 10/27/2025 05:50am • Ghouls, goblins … and gummy bears. Trick-or-treaters may find more fruity candy than chocolate among their Halloween handouts this year. That should be fine with younger consumers, who have been gravitating for years toward non-chocolate candies like gummies, freeze-dried treats and other sweet Government shutdown on track to become longest in history 10/27/2025 04:26am • Twenty-seven days into the government shutdown, the immediate outlook for the reopening of the federal government is grim. President Donald Trump is thousands of miles from Washington on a trade trip to Asia, the U.S. House has not been in session for more than a month and Democrats in the U. Brazilian farmers beef up soybean production as China halts business with US during trade fight 10/27/2025 03:32am • SANTA CRUZ DO RIO PARDO, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian farmer Andrey Rodrigues wasn’t planning to beef up soybean production for next year’s harvest until a couple of months ago, but now he’s extra hopeful. What has him and his fellow Brazilian farmers planting more soybeans is the trade war betwe