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Deadly semitrailer crash in California renews federal criticism of immigrant truck drivers 10/24/2025 02:09pm • A 21-year-old semitruck driver accused of being under the influence of drugs and causing a fiery crash that killed three people on a southern California freeway is in the country illegally, U.S. Homeland Security officials said Thursday. Jashanpreet Singh was arrested and jailed after Tuesday���s ei South Carolina's state utility says private firm set to restart abandoned $9 billion nuclear project 10/24/2025 02:04pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ��� South Carolina's state-owned utility is looking to a private company to revive a project to build two nuclear power plants that was abandoned eight years ago, losing more than $9 billion without generating a watt of power. Santee Cooper's board agreed Friday to start six week Jon Bon Jovi talks first tour since vocal cord surgery, new album and Bruce Springsteen 10/24/2025 12:34pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Bon Jovi will embark on their first tour in four years in 2026 ��� and it's more than just a victory lap. In 2022, singer Jon Bon Jovi saw a doctor who said one of his vocal cords was atrophying. He had major surgery and has been in extensive rehab since. These new shows ��� kicking Interpol-led crackdown on environmental crime leads to 225 arrests in Latin America 10/24/2025 11:13am • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) ��� A two-month multinational police operation spanning nine Latin American countries resulted in 225 arrests for environmental crime and hundreds of new investigations into illegal logging, wildlife trafficking and gold mining, Interpol said Friday. The announcement marked the Roadside bombing kills 3 police officers in northwest Pakistan 10/24/2025 10:41am • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ��� A powerful roadside bomb struck a police vehicle Friday in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country���s northwest near the Afghan border, killing a city police chief and two junior officers, officials said. The bombing took place in the city of Hangu in Floating time capsule: Replica boat retraces historic Erie Canal journey 200 years later 10/24/2025 06:15am • GLENVILLE, N.Y. (AP) ��� Two centuries after New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton opened the Erie Canal with a triumphant boat trip from Buffalo to New York City, a brightly painted replica of the vessel is slowly retracing the historic journey through the waterway and down the Hudson River. A few things ha Bus catches fire after being hit by a motorcycle in southern India, killing at least 25 10/24/2025 06:09am • HYDERABAD, India (AP) ��� A passenger bus erupted into flames after a motorcycle crashed into it early Friday, killing at least 25 people and injuring several others in southern India, police said. The fire tore through the bus within minutes, trapping dozens of passengers as it sped along a highway Today in History: October 24, the United Nations officially launches 10/24/2025 04:10am • Today is Friday, Oct. 24, the 297th day of 2025. There are 68 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 24, 1945, the United Nations formally came into existence as the Charter of the United Nations, ratified by 51 nations, took effect. The date is now observed as United Nations Day. Also on Tropical Storm Melissa lumbers through the Caribbean, killing an elderly man in Haiti 10/23/2025 11:19pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Tropical Storm Melissa lumbered through the Caribbean Sea on Thursday, bringing a risk of dangerous landslides and life-threatening flooding to Jamaica and southern Hispaniola ��� an island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Officials urged residents in flood- One family fled Afghanistan. Then US deportations scattered them across the world 10/23/2025 10:10pm • As they walked up to the thick metal pillars of the border wall dividing Tijuana and San Diego, the Hussaini siblings carried nothing from their lives in Afghanistan than a hazy fantasy of what awaited them on the other side. Amir, 21, and his sisters, Suraiya, 26, and Bano, 27, arrived in northern At a pumpkin festival near Berlin, powerful women take shape ��� one gourd at a time 10/23/2025 10:05pm • BEELITZ, Germany (AP) ��� The pumpkin is the undisputed star of the show at the Klaistow farm near Berlin. Over 100,000 pumpkins in various shapes and colors are laid out across the farm and on shelves along its winding paths ��� 500 different varieties from around the world, each labeled with its n What to know about Coast Guard Island in California, where federal agents have headed 10/23/2025 09:09pm • Federal immigration agents were greeted by protests Thursday in the San Francisco Bay Area on their way out to a century-old, government-owned artificial island that houses a U.S. Coast Guard base. U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents began arriving at Coast Guard Island to support federal effo Putin deplores US sanctions as 'unfriendly' while EU joins in heaping restrictions on Russia 10/23/2025 04:15pm • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� The European Union on Thursday heaped more economic sanctions on Russia, adding to U.S. President Donald Trump���s new punitive measures the previous day against the Russian oil industry. Russian President Vladimir Putin called Washington's move an ���unfriendly act��� that could b Tour de France returns to Montmartre for grand finale in 2026, men face Alpe d'Huez double 10/23/2025 04:00pm • PARIS (AP) ��� After this year���s popular success, the Tour de France will return to Montmartre for the grand finale of the 2026 edition that also includes two stage finishes at the Alpe d'Huez. Tens of thousands of fans packed the streets of Paris��� picturesque Montmartre district this summer to Michigan terminates controversial EV battery plant and seeks to claw back millions in incentives 10/23/2025 02:50pm • LANSING, Mich. (AP) ��� Michigan is demanding millions of dollars in incentives back from a Chinese company after plans to build an electric vehicle battery plant collapsed following years of pushback against the project from neighbors and members of Congress. Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer suppo