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AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Boston's mayoral primary 09/05/2025 07:29am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Boston voters will narrow the field of candidates for mayor on Tuesday in a municipal primary that pits incumbent Michelle Wu against a deep-pocketed challenger with one of the most famous last names in New England. Wu seeks a second term as President Donald Trump has threatened Police in Portugal say that 11 of the 16 people killed when a streetcar derailed in Lisbon were foreigners 09/05/2025 05:59am • LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Police in Portugal say that 11 of the 16 people killed when a streetcar derailed in Lisbon were foreigners. Today in History: September 5, Munich Olympics massacre 09/05/2025 04:10am • Today in History Today is Friday, Sept. 5, the 248th day of 2025. There are 117 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 5, 1972, Palestinian militants attacked the Israeli Olympic delegation at the Munich Games, killing two and taking nine others hostage; five of the militants, a German Suspect among 2 dead in mass stabbing in Canada, 8 injured 09/05/2025 03:10am • WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — A man killed his sister and injured seven others in a mass stabbing at a First Nation reserve in Canada before dying in a collision with a police car, authorities said Thursday. The Mounties identified the attacker as 26-year-old Tyrone Simard and said he killed his 18-ye A passenger bus skids off a cliff in Sri Lanka, killing 15 and injuring 16 others 09/05/2025 02:47am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A passenger bus veered off a road and plunged into a precipice in a mountainous region in Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and injuring 16 others, a police spokesman said Friday. The accident occurred near the town of Wellawaya, about 280 kilometers (174 miles) east of the ca Independiente disqualified from Copa Sudamericana after violent clashes at stadium 09/05/2025 12:52am • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Argentine club Independiente was disqualified from the Copa Sudamericana after violent clashes involving fans at its stadium in a match against the Universidad de Chile last month, South American soccer's governing body said Thursday. More than 100 people were arrested and a Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin makes surprise departure ahead of a risky court ruling 09/05/2025 12:04am • BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra made a sudden and surprising departure from the country Thursday, just five days before a court ruling that could open him up to a new prison sentence. His exit came a week after the Constitutional Court removed his daughter, Pae Daughter of Nazi officer who stole 'Portrait of a Lady' and her husband charged with cover-up 09/04/2025 09:53pm • MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (AP) — Prosecutors in Argentina on Thursday charged the daughter of a fugitive Nazi official with trying to hide an 18th-century painting from authorities following revelations that it had been stolen from a Jewish art dealer during World War II. The federal prosecutor in In ruined Ukrainian cities, residents have tried to cling to hope but eventually they leave 09/04/2025 09:31pm • KOSTIANTYNIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — For many residents of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, evacuation begins with one defining blast — the explosion that makes it impossible to stay. For 69-year-old Tetiana Zaichikova, it came when a strike reduced her home to rubble. The region has been the epice Portuguese investigators search for cause of Lisbon streetcar crash that killed 16 09/04/2025 09:22pm • LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Investigators sifted through the wreckage of a streetcar in downtown Lisbon on Thursday, trying to determine why the popular tourist attraction derailed during the busy summer season, killing 16 people and injuring 21, five of them seriously. Portugal’s attorney-general†Man accused of firing machine gun on NYC street after drug robbery, killing 69-year-old bystander 09/04/2025 09:00pm • NEW YORK (AP) — An 18-year-old man was arrested Thursday on federal charges alleging that he fired a machine gun on a New York City street, causing the stray-bullet death of a woman. Faisil McCants was expected to appear before a magistrate judge Friday. Federal Defenders of New York did not immed Former interior minister arrested upon arrival in Bolivia after deportation from US 09/04/2025 08:55pm • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s incendiary former interior minister was arrested at the airport Thursday after being deported from the United States to face a litany of charges, including crimes against humanity for ordering a deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters in 2019. The deporta DC leaders react to lawsuit aimed at ending National Guard deployment 09/04/2025 08:50pm • As legal and political tensions escalate over federal intervention in the District, Mayor Muriel Bowser is turning her attention toward the end of President Donald Trump's declared crime emergency — while council members rally behind a lawsuit challenging the continued deployment of the National G Ruth Paine, who opened her Texas home to Lee Harvey Oswald and shooed away conspiracies, dead at 92 09/04/2025 08:16pm • DALLAS (AP) — Ruth Paine, whose kindness to Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife as a young mother near Dallas would leave her inexorably linked to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, has died. She was 92. Paine died on Sunday in a senior living facility in Santa Rosa, California, her d Clergy members gather in DC to pray and protest federal law enforcement surge 09/04/2025 07:56pm • On Thursday, members of D.C.'s faith community gathered on Freedom Plaza, just steps from the White House and the Wilson Building, to both pray and protest the federal law enforcement surge in the nation’s capital. The gathering comes amid a growing national debate over federal intervention in