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25 years after landmark UN resolution, UN chief says women are too often absent from peace talks 10/06/2025 06:55pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� Twenty-five years after a landmark U.N. resolution demanded equal participation for women in all efforts to promote peace, the United Nations chief said Tuesday that far too often women remain absent. At the same time, sexual violence against women and girls is on the rise a EF5 tornado that killed 3 in North Dakota was the nation's first in 12 years 10/06/2025 05:42pm • A deadly tornado that tore across southeastern North Dakota this summer has been upgraded to an EF5 with winds topping 200 mph (322 kph), the strongest classification of tornado and the first confirmed on American soil in a dozen years, meteorologists said Monday. The June 20 twister near the town o Alabama governor vows action after Montgomery shooting leaves 2 dead, 12 injured 10/06/2025 05:32pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� Following a mass shooting that killed two people and wounded a dozen others in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, Gov. Kay Ivey said Monday that the state will take a greater role in public safety efforts in the capital city. The deadly shooting unfolded Saturday at about 11:31 A Chinese migrant dies when boat capsizes on the Danube between Serbia and Croatia 10/06/2025 05:27pm • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) ��� One person died when a boat carrying at least 10 Chinese nationals capsized on the Danube River between Serbia and Croatia as they were trying to cross the border illegally, Serbian police said on Monday. The accident happened on Sunday evening in the area near the Serbian Maine is investigating a claim that bundles of ballots ended up in a resident's Amazon order 10/06/2025 05:24pm • AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) ��� Authorities in Maine are investigating an allegation that dozens of unmarked ballots that were to be used in this November's election arrived inside a woman's Amazon order. The town of Ellsworth reported to the state last week that it was missing a shipment of 250 absentee ba Southern right whales awe admirers in Patagonia after coming back from brink of extinction 10/06/2025 03:43pm • PEN��NSULA VALD��S, Argentina (AP) ��� After coming back from the brink of extinction, Southern right whales are swimming in greater numbers off the coast of Argentina's Patagonia this year, delighting tourists seeking to catch a glimpse of their acrobatics. Peninsula Vald��s, located in the Patagon Md. mother and daughter tackling Marine Corps Marathon together 10/06/2025 01:39pm • The 50th Marine Corps Marathon is less than a month away, and WTOP is highlighting some of the inspiring people who are running to that start line. While many ninth-grade students are getting into the swing of things for their new school year, one Maryland teenager is preparing with her mothe Canada's last hockey stick factory survives in face of tariff threats and globalization 10/06/2025 01:31pm • BRANTFORD, Ontario (AP) ��� Wearing protective gloves and earplugs, a worker feeds lengths of wood into a machine that makes an earsplitting whine as it automatically cuts a groove into the end of each piece. Nearby, stacks of wooden wedges wait to be slotted into those grooves to form the beginnin Texas mom who shot her 4 children, killing 2 of them, faces murder charges, authorities say 10/06/2025 12:50pm • ANGLETON, Texas (AP) ��� A Texas mother who shot her four children over the weekend, killing two of them, faces murder charges, authorities said Sunday. The 31-year-old mother is being charged with two counts of murder and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, Brazoria County Sherif A shooting near Houston suburb leaves two children dead and two others in critical condition 10/06/2025 12:43pm • ANGLETON, Texas (AP) ��� Two children were killed and two more were critically injured in a shooting early Saturday near the Houston suburb of Angleton, Texas, authorities said. The Brazoria County Sheriff���s Office said in a Facebook post that deputies responded to reports of the shooting and foun Maryland Renaissance Festival organizers turn on the heat against illegal ticket sales 10/06/2025 10:13am • Organizers of the Maryland Renaissance Festival are cracking down on ticket scalpers, as the event continues on Oct. 11-12 and Oct. 18-19. Organizers said they are beginning legal action against those buying and reselling tickets, saying scalpers are harming its reputation and overcharging loyal Western Balkan leaders reaffirm commitment to EU future 10/06/2025 10:00am • GOLEM, Albania (AP) ��� Leaders of the Western Balkan countries on Monday reaffirmed their commitment to a joint European future, pledging to deepen cooperation and accelerate reforms that would bring the region closer to the European Union. The presidents of the Western Balkan nations gathered in G Fishermen in Trinidad and Tobago fear for their lives and jobs after US strikes in the Caribbean 10/06/2025 09:33am • PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) ��� On a recent afternoon, Kenrick Modie finished untangling his fishing net in a quiet Caribbean village. As he slipped into a hammock at his home overlooking the sea, he worried that his life and livelihood could be wiped out by a U.S. military strike. Modie lives in t Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from sending National Guard troops to Oregon 10/06/2025 07:19am • A federal judge late Sunday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon at all, after a legal whirlwind that began hours earlier when the president mobilized California troops for Portland after the same judge blocked him from using Oregon's Nationa Hurricane Priscilla strengthens in the Pacific off southwestern Mexico 10/06/2025 05:50am • MIAMI (AP) ��� Hurricane Priscilla was strengthening early Monday in the Pacific Ocean with heavy rain and gusty winds threatening coastal areas of southwest Mexico. Priscilla had maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (137 kph) and was headed north-northwest at 5 mph (8 kph), the U.S. National Hurricane