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Fall kills climber and strands partner on Wyoming's Devils Tower 09/25/2024 12:44pm • HULETT, Wyo. (AP) ��� A climber fell to his death while rappelling down Devils Tower, leaving his partner stranded without a rope on the face of the Wyoming geological formation. The stuck climber was rescued unharmed after crying out for help Sunday evening, Devils Tower National Monument Superinte Ukraine urges world leaders not to seek 'lull' in Russia's war instead of true peace 09/25/2024 12:30pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� Ukraine���s president urged global leaders Wednesday to stand with his country and not seek ���a lull��� instead of a ���real, just peace" more than two years into Russia's war. At a time when he faces growing pressure from Western allies and some of his fellow Ukrainians to New Jersey hits pause on an offshore wind farm that can't find turbine blades 09/25/2024 12:27pm • TRENTON, N.J. (AP) ��� New Jersey hit the pause button Wednesday on an offshore wind energy project that is having a hard time finding someone to manufacture blades for its turbines. The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities granted Leading Light Wind a pause on its project through Dec. 20 while its Evacuation order remains in effect for Ohio town where dangerous chemical leak occurred 09/25/2024 12:13pm • WHITEWATER TOWNSHIP, Ohio (AP) ��� An evacuation order remained in effect Wednesday for residents in an Ohio community as crews continued to work at the scene of a dangerous chemical leak. Styrene, a toxic and flammable chemical that is used to make plastic and rubber, began leaking Tuesday afternoo Third house collapses in four days on North Carolina coast 09/25/2024 10:47am • (NEW YORK) -- A third house has collapsed in four days on the North Carolina coast as officials closed off the beach due to dangerous debris on the shore and in the water, officials said. Cape Hatteras National Seashore law enforcement rangers responded to a Dare County dispatch call at approxima Italian pizza judges rank this DC pizzeria among best in the world 09/25/2024 10:40am • Tucked into a corner on 14th Street at Florida Avenue in Northwest D.C., pizza master Giulio Adriani is serving up the second best pizza slice in the U.S. at Slice & Pie, according to the latest annual ranking by 50 Top Pizza. "50 Top Pizza is the biggest award that pizzerias look for," A Firefighters contain flames at vacant Montgomery Co. elementary school 09/25/2024 10:07am • A fire is contained after flames broke out at a vacant elementary school in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Tuesday night, according to fire officials. Montgomery County firefighters battled flames and smoke into Wednesday morning at JoAnn Leleck Elementary School, which is vacant and scheduled to be Edmunds Compares: 2024 Honda Prologue versus 2024 Toyota bZ4X Electric SUVs 09/25/2024 09:03am • While Honda has a long reputation for building fuel-efficient cars and trucks, it���s only now getting serious about EVs with its new 2024 Prologue. The Prologue is an all-electric SUV that seats five and is about the same length as a Honda Passport. Interestingly, Honda expedited its entry in the e Death toll from a coal mine explosion in Iran rises to 50 09/25/2024 06:40am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ��� The death toll from an explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran rose to 50 on Wednesday after one of the miners who was injured in the weekend blast died in hospital, the Iranian state television reported. A methane gas leak sparked an explosion on Saturday at the mine in Tabas Takeaways from an AP and Texas Tribune report on 24 hours along the US-Mexico border 09/25/2024 06:10am • The Texas Tribune and The Associated Press spent 24 hours in five cities on Texas��� border with Mexico to measure the impact of a dramatic drop in migrant crossings. In Ciudad Ju��rez, across from El Paso, no one was camping where, just a few months earlier, hundreds of asylum-seeking families wait One day along the Texas-Mexico border shows that realities shift more rapidly than rhetoric 09/25/2024 06:05am • As midnight nears, the lights of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Ju��rez, Mexico, fill the sky on the silent banks of the Rio Grande. A few months ago, hundreds of asylum-seeking families, including crying toddlers, waited for an opening to crawl through razor wire from Juarez into El Paso. No one is wa As an era ends, the city that was home to the Oakland A's comes to grips with their departure 09/25/2024 04:49am • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ��� The Athletics had long ago carved out a Jekyll-and-Hyde legacy as one of Major League Baseball���s most successful ��� and sad-sack ��� franchises. Under their belts: nine World Series titles and 19 seasons of futility punctuated by 100 or more losses. This, though, is diffe Sudan���s jailed former strongman Omar al-Bashir is taken to a hospital in the north for better care 09/25/2024 04:04am • CAIRO (AP) ��� Sudan's former autocratic President Omar al-Bashir, who ruled for 30 years before he was toppled in a popular uprising and then jailed by the country's military rulers, has been transferred to a medical facility in northern Sudan, his lawyer said Wednesday. Since war broke out in Apr Zelenskyy's victory plan sets Ukraine's terms in a desperate war against Russia 09/25/2024 03:37am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� The victory plan that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will present to the White House this week asks the Biden administration to do something it has not achieved in the two and a half years since Russia invaded Ukraine: act quickly to support Kyiv���s campaign. While Western daw US missile system will remain in the Philippines despite China's alarm 09/25/2024 01:44am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) ��� American and Filipino security officials have agreed to keep a U.S. mid-range missile system in the northern Philippines indefinitely to boost deterrence despite China's expressions of alarm, two Philippine officials said Wednesday. The U.S. Army transported the Typhon m