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Taco Bell moves National Taco Day to Tuesday 10/01/2024 08:00am • (NEW YORK) -- For anyone who marks their calendars timed to food celebrations, Taco Bell has a new date for you to highlight in October that aligns perfectly with a delicious day of the week -- Taco Tuesday. The California-based fast food chain announced Tuesday that this year, National Taco Day Taiwan shuts schools and offices ahead of likely direct hit from powerful typhoon 10/01/2024 07:47am • KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan closed schools and offices and evacuated hundreds from vulnerable areas around the island Tuesday ahead of a strong typhoon expected to hit its densely populated western coast after lashing northern Philippine islands. Dozens of flights were canceled and more than 5 Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South 10/01/2024 07:27am • More than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week from Hurricane Helene and a run-of-the-mill rainstorm that sloshed in ahead of it — an unheard of amount of water that has stunned experts. That's enough to fill the Dallas Cowboys' stadium 51,000 times, or Democratic donors prop up far-right candidates including Wisconsin gun activist in Senate race 10/01/2024 07:10am • WASHINGTON (AP) — David Steinglass, a wealthy donor, has supported scores of Democrats running for office and calls himself an activist for transgender rights. So his donation earlier this year to a far-right candidate in Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race seemed wildly out of character. He gave the m Appreciation: Dikembe Mutombo, a Basketball Hall of Fame player, had impact far beyond the game 10/01/2024 05:55am • The finger wag. The enormous smile. The unmistakable voice. Dikembe Mutombo played defense at a level and with a flair that few others in basketball history ever possessed, all among the many reasons why he's immortalized in the Hall of Fame. On the court, he stopped people. Off the court, he helped Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike, a standoff risking new shortages 10/01/2024 05:43am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas began walking picket lines early Tuesday in a strike over wages and automation that could reignite inflation and cause shortages of goods if it goes on more than a few weeks. The contract between the ports and about 45,000 members of Jimmy Carter at 100: A century of changes for a president, the US and the world since 1924 10/01/2024 04:29am • Already the longest-lived of the 45 men to serve as U.S. president, Jimmy Carter is about to reach the century mark. The 39th president, who remains under home hospice care, will turn 100 on Tuesday, Oct. 1, celebrating in the same south Georgia town where he was born in 1924. Here are some notabl 'You give me hope': Montgomery Co. man repairs hundreds of old bikes to donate 10/01/2024 03:52am • A 74-year-old man in Montgomery County, Maryland, takes old, unwanted bikes that have been collecting dust and refurbishes them in his backyard. Then, he gives them away to refugees, immigrants or others in need of some wheels. Over the past couple of years, Manuel Vera has given away 700 old A former hostage fought for her own life in Gaza. A year on, she fights for her husband's freedom 10/01/2024 03:24am • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — As a hostage in Gaza, Aviva Siegel found herself begging for food and water. Since her release, she has found herself begging for her husband to be set free from his own ongoing captivity. Siegel has come to embody the disaster that befell Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Armed Hama Women's soccer on a high as new Asian Champions League launches 10/01/2024 03:23am • Women’s soccer is on a high in Asia in the wake of some World Cup performances that captivated nations, raising expectations for the new AFC Champions League. North Korea’s win over Japan in the women’s Under-20 World Cup last month has the women’s game back in focus across the continent. Au Mason Rudolph leads Titans to first win of season, 31-12 over Dolphins, after Will Levis is injured 10/01/2024 12:20am • MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Mason Rudolph was happy to help lead the Tennessee Titans to their first win of the season on Monday, even though he felt like he didn't have to do much. Nick Folk helped him with five field goals, and Rudolph led seven scoring drives after starter Will Levis left with a Israel-Hamas war latest: Netanyahu warns Iran as Israel continues strikes in Lebanon 09/30/2024 11:44pm • Israel's prime minister issued a warning to Iran Monday, just days after an airstrike south of Beirut killed the leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah group, which is backed by Tehran. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “there is nowhere in the Middle East Israel cannot reach.” Later Monday, offi Titans quarterback Will Levis injures shoulder in the 1st quarter against the Dolphins 09/30/2024 11:32pm • MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Tennessee Titans quarterback Will Levis left Monday's 31-12 win over the Miami Dolphins in the first quarter with a shoulder injury. Levis dove for a first down on Tennessee's second drive of the game and came down hard on his right throwing shoulder. Backup Mason Rudolp Humberto Ortega, Nicaragua's ex-military chief who later turned critic of his brother, dies at 77 09/30/2024 11:07pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaraguan guerrilla fighter Humberto Ortega, a Sandinista defense minister who later in life became a critic of his older brother President Daniel Ortega, died Monday at 77, Nicaragua's army said. The younger Ortega became the head of the Sandinista army and the country’s def Appeal delays $600 million class action settlement payments in fiery Ohio derailment 09/30/2024 10:32pm • Settlement checks related to Norfolk Southern's disastrous 2023 derailment could be delayed up to two years now because an appeal of a federal judge's decision last week to approve the $600 million deal has been filed, lawyers in the case said Monday. Many residents of East Palestine, Ohio, expresse