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The spate of racehorse deaths this year has Breeders' Cup under intense scrutiny 11/02/2023 11:16am • ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) ��� After horse deaths marred this year���s Kentucky Derby and Preakness, and two more occurred days ahead of the world championships, safety at the Breeders��� Cup is under intense scrutiny. For the first time, all 14 Cup races this weekend at Santa Anita will be run under the Researchers hope tracking senior Myanmar army officers can ascertain blame for human rights abuses 11/02/2023 01:50am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� A group of human rights researchers officially launched a website Wednesday that they hope will help get justice for victims of state violence in Myanmar, where one of the world���s less-noticed but still brutal armed struggles is taking place. Since the army seized power in Februar Asia's first Gay Games to kick off in Hong Kong, fostering hopes for wider LGBTQ+ inclusion 11/02/2023 01:05am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Football enthusiast Gina Benjamin is not just training for victory in the upcoming Gay Games in Hong Kong, but she's also on a mission to help push for legal reform for same-sex marriage. After moving to Hong Kong from Britain in 2016, Benjamin, 33, met her true love in the semi-a Air ambulance crash kills 4 crew members in central Mexico 11/01/2023 10:55pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Four crew members died Wednesday when an air ambulance crashed in the central Mexican state of Morelos. The incident took place just before 14:30 p.m. local time, in a wooded, mountainous area near the town of Tetlama, Temixco: a township roughly 30 miles (50 kilometers) south o Donald Trump Jr. testifies he never worked on the key documents in his father's civil fraud trial 11/01/2023 09:28pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Donald Trump Jr. testified Wednesday that he never worked on his father's financial statements, the documents now at the heart of the civil fraud trial that threatens former President Donald Trump���s real estate empire. The ex-president's eldest son is an executive vice president Countries at a UK summit pledge to tackle AI's potentially 'catastrophic' risks 11/01/2023 09:10pm • BLETCHLEY PARK, England (AP) ��� Delegates from 28 nations, including the U.S. and China, agreed Wednesday to work together to contain the potentially ���catastrophic��� risks posed by galloping advances in artificial intelligence. The first international AI Safety Summit, held at a former codebreak Connecticut judge orders new mayoral primary after surveillance videos show possible ballot stuffing 11/01/2023 09:07pm • A judge on Wednesday tossed out the results of a Democratic mayoral primary in Connecticut���s largest city and ordered that a new one be held, citing surveillance videos showing people stuffing multiple absentee ballots into outdoor collection boxes. The ruling came just six days before the general Escalating violence threatens Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico's northern Sonora state 11/01/2023 08:24pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� What started as an ambush quickly transformed into a manhunt on Wednesday afternoon, when police in Mexico���s northern border state of Sonora repelled a highway attack, then chased injured shooters into the mountains nearby. It was the second shootout in two days in a region wh Chicago and other US cities struggle to house asylum-seekers as winter weather hits 11/01/2023 06:29pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� As the first blast of wintry weather hit Chicago, dozens of migrant families without a place to live were moved off snowy city streets and into the basement of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in a nearby suburb. The last-minute, temporary solution around 1 a.m. Wednesday, coordinated King Charles III meets in private with the family of the Kenyan rebel leader hanged by the British 11/01/2023 02:45pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� King Charles III on Wednesday held a private meeting with the family of the executed leader of the Kenyan rebellion against British colonial rule, a day after the monarch expressed ���greatest sorrow and the deepest regret��� for the violence of the colonial era. The family o Trial moved to late 2024 for Indiana man charged in killings of 2 girls slain during hiking trip 11/01/2023 12:11pm • DELPHI, Ind. (AP) ��� The trial for an Indiana man charged in the killings of two teenage girls slain in 2017 during a hiking trip was moved Tuesday from January to next October after the presiding judge told the suspect she will not allow his former attorneys to represent him. At Tuesday's hearing, Chinese arrivals replace Hong Kong exodus. For them, the city is still freer than the mainland 11/01/2023 08:04am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� The exodus of tens of thousands of professionals from Hong Kong triggered by a crackdown on its civil liberties is being offset by new arrivals: mainland Chinese keen to move to the former British colony. The Asian financial hub has attracted tens of thousands of visa application Suspect in custody for posting online threats about Jewish students at Cornell University 10/31/2023 09:44pm • ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) ��� A Cornell University student was arrested Tuesday and accused of posting threatening statements online about Jewish students at the school, law enforcement officials said. Patrick Dai, 21, a junior from Pittsford, New York, is charged in a federal criminal complaint with pos Editorial Roundup: United States 10/31/2023 06:28pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Oct. 26 The Washington Post on the economic ideas presented by GOP candidates for POTUS Republican candidates are trying to capitalize on discontent with ���Bidenomics.��� Despite strong job gains, cooling inflation, blockbuster third- Sanders says NCAA or Rose Bowl should reimburse Colorado players for missing items from locker room 10/31/2023 03:44pm • Deion Sanders wants someone to reimburse his team for the items that went missing from the Colorado locker room while the Buffaloes played No. 20 UCLA at the Rose Bowl over the weekend. His suggestion? The NCAA. Maybe the Rose Bowl, too. ���That don���t make no sense when you���re out there balling