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Melania Trump is telling her own story — and again breaking norms for American first ladies 09/25/2024 04:22pm • Melania Trump is the first lady who has seldom been there. The wife of Republican presidential candidate and former chief executive Donald Trump walked directly into the fire of public scrutiny early, when her debut speech to the 2016 Republican National Convention drew immediate charges of plagiar How major US stock indexes fared Wednesday, 9/25/2024 09/25/2024 04:18pm • U.S. stocks edged back from their records as financial markets around the world take a pause following big recent moves. The S&P 500 fell 0.2% Wednesday, a day after setting its latest all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.7%, and the Nasdaq composite was basically flat. Treasu Overseas voters are the latest target in Trump's false narrative on election fraud 09/25/2024 04:13pm • Donald Trump this week claimed without evidence that anyone living overseas can get a ballot mailed to them, even if they are not eligible to vote, falsely accusing Democrats of subverting a 1986 law to win in November. The former Republican president’s allegation focuses on the Uniformed and Over Rodgers is on the verge of 60,000 yards passing while lifting Jets' rejuvenated, productive offense 09/25/2024 04:12pm • FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers was surrounded by a throng of reporters in the middle of the New York Jets ' locker room when Breece Hall found an opening. Just as the running back usually does on the field. Hall playfully asked a question of his quarterback — and then probably wished he Wisconsin mayor carts away absentee ballot drop box, says he did nothing wrong 09/25/2024 04:06pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The mayor of a central Wisconsin city who ran for office on his opposition to absentee ballot drop boxes said Wednesday he did nothing wrong when he put on work gloves, donned a hard hat and used a dolly to cart away a drop box outside City Hall. Wausau Mayor Doug Diny posed f Putin lowers threshold of nuclear response as he issues new warnings to the West over Ukraine 09/25/2024 03:06pm • MOSCOW (AP) — In a strong, new warning to the West, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that any nation’s conventional attack on Russia that is supported by a nuclear power will be considered a joint attack on his country. The threat, outlined in a revision of Moscow’s nuclear doctrine, wa Kentucky sheriff charged with fatally shooting a judge pleads not guilty in first court appearance 09/25/2024 02:39pm • GRAYSON, Ky. (AP) — Clad in a drab gray jail uniform, a Kentucky sheriff displayed no emotion at his first court hearing Wednesday since being accused of walking into a judge's chambers and fatally shooting him — a tragedy that shocked and saddened their tight-knit Appalachian county. Letcher Co A tale of crushing security lapses and missed chances to stop the man who shot Trump 09/25/2024 02:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The acting director of the Secret Service was incensed at what had happened that July evening. “What I saw made me ashamed,” Ronald Rowe Jr. said. “I cannot defend why that roof was not better secured.” The unguarded roof, easily within shooting distance of the rally stag Bahamas seeks help to pay off debt brought by huge storms, result of climate change 09/25/2024 01:47pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The Bahamas is stuck in a financial pickle, much of it because of the whims of climate change, bureaucracy and the fossil fuel industry, said its prime minister, who adds that he is tired of promises of help but little action. And he's not alone. Like many other countries in the Gl Eswatini opposition party claims its leader was poisoned in an assassination attempt 09/25/2024 01:19pm • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Eswatini's main opposition leader was poisoned in an assassination attempt, his party claimed Wednesday, putting renewed scrutiny on the southern African country that is one of the last remaining absolute monarchies and where authorities have for years moved to quash A man who killed 2 Dartmouth professors as a teen is challenging his sentence 09/25/2024 01:14pm • NORTH HAVERHILL, N.H. (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty as a teenager to the 2001 stabbing deaths of two married Dartmouth College professors is challenging his life-without-parole sentence, saying that the New Hampshire Constitution prohibits it. Robert Tulloch was 17 when he killed Half Zantop an Jury awards $2.78 million to nanny over hidden camera in bedroom 09/25/2024 01:02pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A jury has awarded $2.78 million to an au pair whose employer used a hidden camera to videotape her while she slept in their New York City home. The jury in Brooklyn federal court ordered Michael and Danielle Esposito to pay Kelly Andrade $780,000 for emotional distress and $2 mill Mexico's Congress puts National Guard under military command despite criticism. Why does it matter? 09/25/2024 12:55pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Senate on Wednesday approved putting the National Guard under the command of the military despite widespread criticism over deepening the country's militarization. It's the second constitutional change in two weeks, giving outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obr Residents of northern Israel's largest city face Hezbollah fire and brace for the worst 09/25/2024 12:44pm • HAIFA, Israel (AP) — The sandy beaches of Haifa, Israel’s third-largest city, are empty. Businesses are shutting early, and many restaurants are closed. The only places filling up, as the threat of a wider war with Hezbollah mounts, are public bomb shelters. Haifa, a seaside city of nearly 300,0 What to know as Hurricane Helene takes aim at Florida 09/25/2024 12:44pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Another storm system is taking aim at Florida, this time possibly at the Panhandle or Big Bend area, with storm effects expected all over the state due to its vast wind field. The fast-moving Hurricane Helene is intensifying quickly as it crosses from the Caribbean Sea