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Lax gun laws in Brazil and US help arm Brazil's organized crime, study finds 09/23/2025 12:29pm • SAO PAULO (AP) — Gunmen in a car opened fire last November at Sao Paulo's airport and killed a cryptocurrency entrepreneur in a daytime hit that was one of Brazil's most shocking recent crimes. Police at the scene recovered three semiautomatic rifles that are restricted for civilian use. The cas Japan's most sacred Shinto shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years for more than a millennium 09/23/2025 12:21am • ISE, Japan (AP) — Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so that they strike from three directions. An hour later, the head woodcutter shouts, “A tree is falli Takeaways from AP's report on Japan's most sacred shrine, rebuilt every 20 years for a millennium 09/23/2025 12:09am • ISE, Japan (AP) — Every two decades for the last 1,300 years, Ise Jingu, Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine, has been knocked down and rebuilt from scratch. The massive, $390 million demolition and construction job takes about nine years. It requires the country’s finest carpenters, woodcutter Editorial Roundup: United States 09/22/2025 10:53pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Sept. 19 The New York Times says the Trump Administration is trying to punish free speech A founding principle of the United States, enshrined in the Constitution’s opening amendment, is that our republic depends on citizens’ f Charges dropped against ex-NBA guard Ben Gordon, arrested after juice shop disturbance 09/22/2025 06:54pm • STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — Multiple criminal charges were dropped Monday against former NBA guard Ben Gordon, who was arrested in 2023 after authorities say he began behaving erratically in a Connecticut juice shop. Gordon, who also helped lead the University of Connecticut to the NCAA national champi US bars Iran's diplomats from shopping at Costco without permission 09/22/2025 04:48pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration has barred Iranian diplomats based in or visiting New York from shopping at wholesale club stores like Costco and purchasing luxury goods in the United States without specific permission from the State Department. “We will not allow the Iranian regime to Pamela Anderson leads the way for women who choose to go makeup free 09/22/2025 03:14pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Pamela Anderson has nothing against makeup. It's just that she's been there, done that in her younger years. That's why now, at 58, she's attending fashion shows and film premieres with a blissfully bare face. It's a look, especially for older women, that serves to plague and perpl Did you dawdle on that new heat pump or EV? Better move fast to get those tax credits 09/22/2025 02:57pm • Tax incentives that saved U.S. residents thousands of dollars on home efficiency upgrades, clean energy installations and electric vehicles are expiring this year. That means people who want to take advantage of them before they disappear have to act quickly. “There is still time, but the clock is Dublin braces for influx of Americans as Steelers-Vikings play Ireland's 1st regular-season NFL game 09/22/2025 01:20pm • Ireland has sent quite a few of its people to America over the years. The U.S. will be returning the favor this week. The Steelers-Vikings matchup at Croke Park in Dublin is expected to draw a larger-than-usual chunk of U.S.-based fans compared to other international games. It will be the first regu Russia and Ukraine trade deadly drone strikes as Zelenskyy anticipates intense diplomacy at UN 09/22/2025 12:04pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine swapped accusations of deadly drone strikes on civilian areas of their countries Monday as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy anticipated “a very intense week” of diplomacy at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, where the Security Council was due Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 28-Oct. 4 09/22/2025 10:32am • Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 28-Oct. 4: Sept. 28: Actor Brigitte Bardot is 91. Actor Joel Higgins (“Silver Spoons”) is 82. Actor Jeffrey Jones is 79. Actor Vernee Watson (“Bob Hearts Abishola,” “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”) is 76. Writer-director-actor John Sayles is 75. Guitar High-tech tax authority helps Greece return to Europe’s financial mainstream 09/22/2025 06:25am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — With a pristine white exterior, the Greece tax authority's new headquarters looks out of place on a clogged industrial artery outside Athens. A former shopping mall and ice rink, the building has been overhauled into an ultramodern digital center that has led the rescue of th The DC-area foodie forecast: 20+ must-try restaurants that are new or opening this fall 09/22/2025 05:42am • For diners who may be getting tired of the same old dishes and want to change it up with something new, the D.C. area is chock full of new restaurants and bar openings worth a reservation.  From a Bitcoin-preferred bar that is opening in Penn Quarter, to a selfie-approved restaurant and cafe hea 'Not your grandma’s stitching': How one DC local is using embroidery to build community 09/22/2025 05:25am • On any given day in the District, you can find Meredith Artyukhina brainstorming her next embroidery kit design, or putting together packages for her latest order. Sometimes, though, she hosts special embroidery events in the city, too. Artyukhina is the founder of Capital Stitch Co., a passio Man who tried to assassinate Kavanaugh wanted to kill 3 justices, feds say 09/22/2025 04:54am • Washington — The California man who pleaded guilty to attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022 aimed to kill three members of the high court in an effort to "single-handedly alter the constitutional order for ideological ends," according to federal prosecutors. Th