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4 kidnapped, including teen girl and baby, in California 10/30/2022 05:57pm • WESTMINSTER, Calif. (AP) ��� Two suspects are in custody after they allegedly kidnapped four people, including a teenage girl and a 6-month-old baby, last week in Southern California, authorities said. Officers found the 14-year-old girl and the baby uninjured inside a hotel room in Costa Mesa early World leaders grieve deadly Halloween crowd surge in Seoul 10/30/2022 10:10am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� World leaders expressed sadness and condolences after at least 151 people were killed in a crowd surge Saturday night in Seoul, South Korea. The tragedy occurred in Seoul���s Itaewon district during Halloween festivities when a huge crowd surged into a narrow downhill alley. At le Supreme Court considers Harvard and University of North Carolina's use of affirmative action. Here's what you need to know 10/30/2022 08:51am • The conservative Supreme Court will meet Monday to consider whether colleges and universities can continue to take race into consideration as a factor in admissions, a case that could diminish the number of Black and Hispanic students in higher education.Hanging in the balance is the future of admis Leavitt, 25, cites youth in bid to be youngest congresswoman 10/30/2022 08:33am • MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) ��� Karoline Leavitt recalls being in her New Hampshire college dining hall in 2018, filling out an application for a White House intern job while her friends were tailgating at a football game. ���I remember thinking, ���If I made this opportunity, it���s worth missing any fo Gonzaga student, 17, pens self-published book thanking family for guidance 10/30/2022 04:53am • A high school senior at Gonzaga College High School in D.C. explores the question of why some kids achieve while others are held back in his new book. Duane "Ben" Sylvestre, a 17-year-old senior at Gonzaga College High School writes in his self-published book, "My Momma Made Me Do It," that lovin Gerald Stern, prize-winning and lyrical poet, dies at 97 10/29/2022 05:01pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Gerald Stern, one of the country���s most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly humor about his childhood, Judaism, mortality and the wonders of the contemplative life, has died. He was 97. Stern, New Jersey���s first poet laureate, died Thursd Indiana teacher with 'kill list' agrees to no-contact order 10/29/2022 12:12pm • CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) ��� A fifth-grade teacher in northwestern Indiana charged with felony intimidation after authorities say she told a student she had a ���kill list��� of students and staff has agreed to stay away from the school. Angelica Carrasquillo, 25, of Griffith signed a no-contact order Halloween-themed March of the Mummies seeks childcare reform 10/29/2022 11:47am • LONDON (AP) ��� Protesters in Halloween costumes marched in cities around Britain on Saturday to demand more affordable child care. The March of the Mummies was called to demand reforms to U.K. rules on childcare, parental leave and flexible working that organizers say keep many parents ��� mostly m Brazil president makes Argentina a campaign boogeyman 10/29/2022 10:43am • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ��� As a Brazilian journalist living in Argentina, Luciana Taddeo says she spends ever-more effort rebutting ever-crazier rumors. There were claims that Argentina's presidential palace had been invaded, that people had to leave keys in their cars' ignitions so the govern 120,000 parade at Taiwan Pride celebration despite rain 10/29/2022 09:24am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) ��� Some 120,000 paraded in the streets of Taipei as the city���s 20th annual Pride event celebrated the LGBTQ community Saturday in spite of the rainy weather. The Taiwan Pride Parade began in 2003 with just 700 participants gathering in a park in central Taipei ��� most of them EXPLAINER: Drag queens and how they got pulled into politics 10/29/2022 07:40am • Lately, drag has been dragged through the mud. The art form has been cast in a false light in recent months by right-wing activists and politicians who complain about the ���sexualization��� or ���grooming��� of children. Opponents often coordinate protests at drag events that feature or cater to Anne Frank's friend Hannah Pick-Goslar dies at age 93 10/29/2022 05:38am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ��� Hannah Pick-Goslar, one of Jewish diarist Anne Frank���s best friends, has died at age 93, the foundation that runs the Anne Frank House museum said. The Anne Frank Foundation paid tribute to Pick-Goslar, who is mentioned in Anne���s world-famous diary about her life Judge orders Meta to pay $10.5M in legal fees to Washington 10/28/2022 08:54pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� Facebook parent company Meta has been ordered to pay $10.5 million in legal fees to Washington state atop a nearly $25 million fine for repeated and intentional violations of campaign finance disclosure laws. King County Superior Court Judge Douglass North issued the legal-fee order Uvalde families make last push for shakeup on Election Day 10/28/2022 07:53pm • UVALDE, Texas (AP) ��� Just hours after voting started in Texas, Kimberly Rubio cast her ballot in the same Uvalde city building where she waited in May to learn that her daughter, Lexi, was one of 19 fourth-graders fatally shot at Robb Elementary School. ���If our children aren't safe, neither are Hogan directs Md. hospitals to up pediatric staffing amid increase in RSV hospitalizations 10/28/2022 06:50pm • Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced expansions to statewide preparedness efforts to combat an increase in the respiratory virus RSV on Friday, as well as an expected surge of COVID-19 and flu. Among the steps, Hogan directed hospitals to use $25 million in new funding to prioritize pediatric ICU