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Iraq holds parliamentary election boycotted by a major political group 11/11/2025 03:09pm • BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqis voted Tuesday in a parliamentary election marked by tight security and a boycott by a major political bloc. The only immediate report of serious violence was a clash overnight between party supporters in the northern city of Kirkuk that left two police officers dead. Attendan Speaker Johnson faces an unruly House as lawmakers return for shutdown vote 11/11/2025 02:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — After refusing to convene the U.S. House during the government shutdown, Speaker Mike Johnson is recalling lawmakers back into session — and facing an avalanche of pent-up legislative demands from those who have largely been sidelined from governing. Hundreds of representatives WWII nurses who dodged bullets and saved lives deserve Congressional honor, lawmakers say 11/11/2025 12:34pm • DANVILLE, Calif. (AP) — At age 106, Alice Darrow can clearly recall her days as a nurse during World War II, part of a pioneering group that dodged bullets as they hauled packs full of medical supplies and treated the burns and gunshot wounds of troops. Some nurses were killed by enemy fire. Othe Serbian protesters vow to prevent real estate project linked to Trump son-in-law Kushner 11/11/2025 08:42am • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Thousands of protesters in Serbia symbolically formed a human shield Tuesday around a bombed-out military complex, vowing to protect it from redevelopment as a luxury compound by a company linked to U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. Youth-led protest China's 'Singles' Day' shopping festival a gauge of Beijing's effort to get consumers to spend more 11/10/2025 11:02pm • HONG KONG (AP) — Alice Zhang, a 29-year-old marketer in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, has spent only roughly half what she did last year during the “Singles' Day” online shopping festival, switching to cheaper choices and giving up on buying new shoes after pay was cut by more than 2 Suburban Chicago dad headed to store with toddler says they were pepper-sprayed by federal agents 11/10/2025 04:29pm • CHICAGO (AP) — A suburban Chicago father and his 1-year-old daughter were pepper-sprayed at close range as they headed grocery shopping over the weekend and happened upon federal immigration agents, the family said. Rafael Veraza said the incident happened in a Sam's Club parking lot in Cicero on An emerging shutdown deal doesn't extend expiring health subsidies. Here's what could happen to them 11/10/2025 03:19pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A legislative package that appears on track to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history leaves out any clear resolution on the expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits that have made private health insurance less costly for millions of Americans. The deal agreed to by Se Daughter of ex-South Africa President Zuma faces trial over deadly riots. Here's what to know 11/10/2025 01:57pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, appeared in court on Monday for her trial on charges of incitement to cause terrorism related to riots that left over 350 people dead in July 2021. The riots were the deadliest since the end of S Treasury official says US pushes Lebanon to crack down on Hezbollah funding ahead of elections 11/10/2025 12:32pm • BEIRUT (AP) — A high-ranking U.S. Treasury official said during a visit to Beirut Monday that Washington is pushing Lebanese officials to crack down on the flow of funding to Hezbollah before next year's parliamentary elections and to prosecute people involved in a quasi-bank affiliated with the g Retired AP reporter helped cement the legend of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 11/09/2025 02:11pm • LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Associated Press reporter Harry Atkins was far from Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, “when the gales of November came early." But his news coverage the following day of the infamous wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald helped shape its legacy. Atkins, now 86, was a news reporter Flight cuts from government shutdown strain a supply chain that's already stretched thin 11/09/2025 11:12am • NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration’s announcement of a 10% reduction in flight capacity across 40 major U.S. airports could put a strain on air cargo as the peak holiday season approaches. Several airports with major package distribution centers are on the list of airports that Some DC-area travelers say traveling during the shutdown was fast, smooth 11/09/2025 08:16am • Day 40 of the government shutdown has delivered delays and cancellations at airports around the country due to the FAA-ordered cuts to the number of flights at 40 high-volume markets, which include BWI Marshall, Reagan National and Dulles International. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed Typhoon Kalmaegi rampages across Vietnam as the Philippines prepares for a new storm 11/08/2025 02:46pm • DAK LAK, Vietnam (AP) — Typhoon Kalmaegi brought fierce winds and torrential rains to Vietnam on Friday, killing at least five people, flattening homes, blowing off roofs and uprooting trees. In the Philippines, where the storm left at least 204 dead earlier in the week, survivors wept over the co Investigators look into 'repeating bell' heard during takeoff of UPS cargo plane that crashed 11/07/2025 08:09pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A UPS cargo plane was nearly airborne when a bell sounded in the cockpit. For the next 25 seconds, the bell rang and the pilots tried to control the aircraft as it barely lifted off the runway, its left wing ablaze and missing an engine, and then plowed into the ground in a What to know about 10% reduction in flights at US airports caused by the government shutdown 11/07/2025 05:34pm • More than 1,000 airline flights were canceled Friday and others are expected in the coming days as part of government-ordered air service reductions due to the federal shutdown. The cancellations have left scores of passengers across the U.S. worried about reaching home or other destinations on time