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Feel-good parkruns have raced past their humble beginnings and now draw millions for fitness and fun 10/03/2024 03:49am • LONDON (AP) — On a weekend morning in the fall of 2004, 13 runners lined up in a London park for an informal race — unaware they were taking the first steps in what would become a global movement. Paul Sinton-Hewitt had simple ambitions: to provide a free, weekly 5-kilometer (3.1 mile) run open Hall of Famer Susie Maxwell Berning, a 4-time major champion while raising 2 daughters, dies at 83 10/03/2024 02:31am • PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — Susie Maxwell Berning, the three-time U.S. Women's Open winner who was a pioneer as a mother while competing on the LPGA Tour, died Wednesday after a two-year battle with lung cancer. She was 83. The LPGA said Berning, inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2022, Former Singapore minister sentenced to a year in prison for receiving illegal gifts 10/03/2024 01:45am • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A former Singaporean Cabinet minister was sentenced Thursday to a year in prison after he pleaded guilty to charges of receiving illegal gifts, in a rare criminal case involving a minister in the Asian financial hub. Former Transport Minister S. Iswaran had pleaded gu Middle East latest: UN ponders how to calm the conflict as Israel battles militants on two fronts 10/03/2024 12:29am • The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting Wednesday to address the spiraling conflict in the Middle East. Iran’s ambassador to the U.N. said his country launched nearly 200 missiles at Israel on Tuesday as a deterrent to further Israeli violence, while his Israeli counterpart Takeaways from The Associated Press' report on lost shipping containers 10/03/2024 12:10am • LONG BEACH, Wash. (AP) — From clothes to metals used for manufacturing, most of the world’s everyday goods and raw materials moved over long distances are packed in large metal boxes the size of tractor-trailers and stacked on ships. Millions of containers cross the oceans every year. Not everyt Hurricane Kirk strengthens into a Category 3 storm in the Atlantic 10/03/2024 12:04am • MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Kirk strengthened Wednesday into a Category 3 storm in the Atlantic Ocean and was expected to grow rapidly into a major hurricane, forecasters said. There were no coastal watches or warnings in effect, and the storm system was not yet deemed a threat to land. Kirk reached C Josef Martínez scores two goals to help Montreal beat Atlanta United 2-1 10/02/2024 10:43pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Josef Martínez scored two goals Wednesday night against his former team and moved into seventh in MLS history with 115 career regular season goals and CF Montreal beat Atlanta United 2-1. Tom Pearce bent an entry behind two defenders to the front post, where a charging Martínez t Southerners stay in touch the old-fashioned way after Helene cuts roads, power, phones 10/02/2024 10:16pm • ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Isolated and without electricity or phone service since Hurricane Helene inflicted devastation across the Southeast nearly a week ago, residents in the mountains of western North Carolina are relying on old-fashioned ways of communicating and coping. At the town square in Bl Israel presses forward on two fronts and reports 8 combat deaths as fears of a wider war mount 10/02/2024 09:53pm • BEIRUT (AP) — Israel pressed forward on two fronts Wednesday, pursuing a ground incursion into Lebanon against Hezbollah that left eight Israeli soldiers dead and conducting strikes in Gaza that killed dozens, including children. As Israel vowed to retaliate for Iran’s ballistic missile attack a The Latest: Trio of crises looms over the campaign's final stretch 10/02/2024 08:57pm • In a debate that evoked a calmer era in American politics, Tim Walz and JD Vance went after each other’s running mates Tuesday and sought to shore up their campaigns’ vulnerabilities at a time of renewed fears of a regional war in the Middle East and sadness over devastation from Hurricane Helen Shock of deadly floods is a reminder of Appalachia’s risk from violent storms in a warming climate 10/02/2024 08:49pm • HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Hurricane Helene dumped trillions of gallons of water hundreds of miles inland, devastating communities nestled in mountains far from the threat of storm surge or sea level rise. But that distance can conceal a history of flooding in a region where water races into popu US school-entry vaccination rates fall as exemptions keep rising 10/02/2024 08:44pm • NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates dipped last year and the proportion of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high, according to federal data posted Wednesday. The share of kids exempted from vaccine requirements rose to 3.3%, up from 3% the year before. Meanwhile, 92.7% In music and dance, Sudanese performers transport refugee audiences back home 10/02/2024 08:43pm • CAIRO (AP) — As the performers took the stage and the traditional drum beat gained momentum, Sudanese refugees sitting in the audience were moved to tears. Hadia Moussa said the melody reminded her of the country's Nuba Mountains, her family's ancestral home. "Performances like this help people me This popular cellphone carrier keeps disconnecting 911 calls in DC 10/02/2024 08:15pm • Last month alone, more than 10,000 calls to D.C.'s 911 went unanswered. Sometimes, the person calling would hang up quickly because they made the call by accident, or maybe they'd be disconnected because they were walking into a building or someplace where the signal would drop. But anecdotes abo Carlos Rodón to start Game 2 of AL Division Series for Yankees against Royals 10/02/2024 08:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Carlos Rodón will start Game 2 of the AL Division Series for the New York Yankees against Kansas City. AL Cy Young Award winner Gerrit Cole will start Saturday's opener and is lined up to pitch Game 4 of the best-of-five series on Oct. 10. Rodón would be on track to pitch a Game