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France's prime minister is ousted as the nation drifts into turmoil 09/09/2025 01:02pm • PARIS (AP) — Another prime minister gone. Another crisis unfolding. In France, what once shocked is now routine. Prime Minister François Bayrou submitted his resignation Tuesday after losing a crushing confidence vote in parliament. The third toppling of a head of government in 14 months leaves P Man arrested for suspected tear gas incident that caused partial evacuation at Heathrow Airport 09/09/2025 12:29pm • LONDON (AP) — A 57-year-old man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly possessing tear gas that is believed to have caused the partial evacuation of a terminal at Heathrow Airport. About 20 people treated by paramedics were not seriously injured in the incident that closed the departures area of Termi Former Northern Virginia choir director pleads guilty to sexual battery of student, avoids jail time 09/09/2025 10:11am • A former Northern Virginia choir director has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of sexual battery against a former 17-year-old student, and has received a 12-month suspended sentence. Joel Adam Shapiro, 33, was sentenced Sept. 4 in Loudoun County Circuit Court after entering a plea to the misdem Takeaways from AP's investigation into how US tech companies enabled China's digital police state 09/09/2025 08:52am • BEIJING (AP) — Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers are trapped in a digital cage, barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes by the world’s largest digital surveillance apparatus. Most of this technology came from companies in a country that h Detailed findings from AP investigation into how US tech firms enabled China's digital police state 09/09/2025 08:49am • BEIJING (AP) — American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known, an Associated Press investigation found. They sold billions of dollars of technology to the Chinese police, go Opioid overdoses are declining across the DC region. What's behind the trend? 09/09/2025 04:59am • It's been over two years since a large group gathered outside Wakefield High School holding colorful signs. They had messages in both English and Spanish, hoping to show support to students at the Arlington, Virginia, school. Some hoped for increased security and new rules. The event came days af Thailand's political path is shadowed by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's dramas 09/09/2025 04:38am • BANGKOK (AP) — Thaksin Shinawatra, the billionaire former prime minister of Thailand, remains one of the country’s most influential and controversial figures nearly two decades after being ousted in a 2006 military coup. His political journey, marked by unprecedented popularity, a dramatic fall Today in History: September 9, Attica prison uprising begins 09/09/2025 04:10am • Today in History Today is Tuesday, Sept. 9, the 252nd day of 2025. There are 113 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 9, 1971, prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York, taking 42 staff members hostage and demanding improvement New Zealand police investigate how a man hid his 3 children in a forest for years without discovery 09/09/2025 03:56am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Deep in dense New Zealand forest, a makeshift campsite was the final hiding place of a fugitive New Zealand man who vanished with his three children for several years. On Tuesday, a day after Tom Phillips was shot dead by the police and his children — now aged 9, 1 How the AP uncovered US big tech's role in China's digital police state 09/09/2025 01:32am • BEIJING (AP) — Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known, the Associated Press has found. AP journalists spoke to more than 100 sources, Police say man killed retired Auburn University professor at a public park 09/09/2025 12:38am • AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — A retired veterinary professor at Auburn University was killed over the weekend while walking her dog at a popular park in Auburn, Alabama, authorities said. Julie Gard Schnuelle, 59, was attacked and killed Saturday morning in Kiesel Park, located about 5 miles (8 kilometers) PHOTO ESSAY: Those caught in the dragnet of China’s digital cage enabled by U.S. tech 09/09/2025 12:34am • CHANGZHOU, China (AP) — China runs the largest digital surveillance apparatus on earth. An Associated Press investigation has found that American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previo Nepal internet crackdown part of global trend toward suppressing online freedom 09/09/2025 12:22am • Nepal's crackdown on social media companies, which led to protests and police killing at least 19 people, is part of a yearslong decline of internet freedoms around the world as even democracies seek to curtail online speech. The Himalayan country’s government said last week it was blocking severa Pakistan evacuates 25,000 people from eastern city as rivers threaten flooding 09/09/2025 12:03am • JALALPUR PIRWALA, Pakistan (AP) — Rescuers backed by troops evacuated more than 25,000 people from a city in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province overnight as rising rivers threatened to flood the region, officials said Monday. The emergency rescue operation in Jalalpur Pirwala began late Sunday and Former PM Thaksin returns to Thailand ahead of court ruling that could lead to imprisonment 09/08/2025 10:50pm • BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrived in Bangkok on Monday after his surprise departure to Dubai, a day before a court ruling that could open him up to imprisonment. Thaksin could be seen walking out of the private jet terminal of the Don Mueang International