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Rescuers race to recover bodies after massive Karachi shopping plaza fire, in photos 01/19/2026 10:13am • KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Rescuers work to recover more bodies after a massive fire at a shopping plaza in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Hawaii's strict gun law faces Supreme Court scrutiny in landmark case 01/19/2026 12:01am • HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s gun laws, long among the strictest in the nation, will be the focus of arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. The court is taking up the state's ban on firearms on private property that is open to the public, such as stores and hotels, unless the owner expli Sending soldiers to Minneapolis for immigration crackdown would be unconstitutional, mayor says 01/18/2026 06:45pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The mayor of Minneapolis said Sunday that sending active duty soldiers into Minnesota to help with an immigration crackdown is a ridiculous and unconstitutional idea as he urged protesters to remain peaceful so the president won't see a need to send in the U.S. military. Daily p Somali businesses struggle during the Minneapolis ICE crackdown 01/18/2026 05:30pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Rows of businesses stood shuttered inside a sprawling complex of Somali businesses on a recent afternoon. Karmel Mall in south Minneapolis contains more than a hundred small businesses in suites offering everything from clothing and food to insurance and accounting services. On Death toll rises to 6 in fire at a shopping plaza in the Pakistani city of Karachi 01/18/2026 02:19pm • KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Firefighters in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi on Sunday finally extinguished a blaze at a multistory shopping plaza after a nearly 24-hour-long effort. The fire left six people dead, including a firefighter, and dozens missing, officials said. The fire broke o Massive fire engulfs dozens of shops at a shopping mall in southern Pakistan, killing 3 people 01/18/2026 03:16am • KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A massive fire swept through a multistory shopping mall in Pakistan’s largest southern city of Karachi late Saturday, killing at least three people and injuring about a dozen others, police and rescue officials said. Firefighters and rescue workers rushed to the Gul Plaz European Union and Mercosur bloc of South American nations sign landmark free trade agreement 01/17/2026 08:25pm • ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — The European Union and the Mercosur bloc of South American countries formally signed a long-sought free trade agreement on Saturday, strengthening commercial ties in the face of rising protectionism and trade tensions around the world. The signing ceremony in Paraguay’s Iran's leader calls Trump a 'criminal' for backing protests and blames demonstrators for deaths 01/17/2026 05:16pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday branded U.S. President Donald Trump a “criminal” for supporting protesters in Iran, and blamed demonstrators for causing thousands of deaths. In a speech broadcast by state television, Khamenei said Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni secures 7th term as opposition rejects results 01/17/2026 04:52pm • KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni won his seventh term with 71.65% of the vote, according to official results Saturday, in an election marred by a days-long internet shutdown and rigging claims by his youthful challenger, who rejected the outcome and called for peaceful prot Iranians use Turkey border to access internet during blackouts 01/17/2026 12:41pm • KAPIKOY BORDER CROSSING, Turkey (AP) — A border crossing with Iran in Turkey’s eastern province of Van has not seen a major influx of Iranians seeking asylum from the unrest in their country, but many have been making short jaunts across the border to get around communications blackouts. Interne Why US cities are reverting 1-way streets back to their original 2-way design 01/17/2026 12:05pm • Excessive speeding was so common on parallel one-way streets passing a massive electronics plant that Indianapolis residents used to refer to the pair as a “racetrack” akin to the city's famous Motor Speedway a few miles west. Originally two-way thoroughfares, Michigan and New York streets switc NFL Playoffs DFS Promo Codes: Use Multiple Offers for Picks This Weekend 01/17/2026 12:03pm • This article contains references to products from our advertisers and/or partners, and we may receive compensation when you click on links to products and services Use NFL playoffs DFS promo codes for the divisional round matchups over the weekend. We list the leading offers for daily fantasy, maki Letter writing enjoys a revival as fans seek connection and a break from screen time 01/17/2026 09:55am • At a time when productivity means optimizing every second and screens blur the line between work and home, some people are slowing down and disconnecting by looking to communication devices from the past. Tactile activities ranging from writing letters and typewriter clubs to TikTok communities show No sign of new protests in Iran as a hard-line cleric calls for executions and threatens Trump 01/16/2026 07:40pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As Iran returned to uneasy calm after a wave of protests that drew a bloody crackdown, a senior hard-line cleric called Friday for the death penalty for detained demonstrators and directly threatened U.S. President Donald Trump — evidence of the rage gripping a A mistakenly deported Babson College student tells AP how her life turned upside down 01/16/2026 06:35pm • BOSTON (AP) — As she sat on a deportation flight headed to Texas, Any Lucia Lopez Belloza kept asking herself why. She was a college student with no criminal record and no reason to believe she was at risk of being sent back to her native Honduras. “It just shocked me. I don’t know, like I was