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AP photos of Kashmir's mental health clinics show the invisible scars of decades of conflict 09/02/2023 12:27am • SRINAGAR, India (AP) — After consulting with several doctors in the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir, Aayat Hameed was advised to seek help from a mental health expert for her bouts of unspecified anxiety, random palpitation attacks and occasional but strong suicidal thoughts. A psychiatrist Casino developers ask Richmond voters for a second chance, promising new jobs and tax revenue 09/01/2023 06:38pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Two years ago, voters in Virginia's capital city narrowly rejected a referendum that would have opened the door for a proposed casino. Now, the developers behind a retooled project are hoping to change their minds. Richmond officials have opted to bring the matter back t Oregon State and Washington State face uncertainty in what's left of the Pac-12 09/01/2023 05:47pm • Just like that, the Pac-12 has been reduced to the Pac-2. Oregon State and Washington State will be the last two standing in the conference after Stanford and California announced Friday they are bolting for the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2024. There's speculation the Beavers and Cougars may joi Death toll from Johannesburg fire rises to 76 as city turns to tough job of identifying victims 09/01/2023 01:32pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Search teams finished checking a derelict Johannesburg apartment building a day after one of South Africa's deadliest fires broke out there as pathologists faced the grisly task Friday of identifying charred bodies and body parts that were transported in large trucks to mortuar Russia's Putin and Turkey's Erdogan set to meet amid efforts to repair Ukraine grain deal 09/01/2023 12:30pm • Russian President Vladimir Putin will host Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks next week, the Kremlin announced Friday, just over six weeks after Moscow broke off a deal brokered by Ankara and the U.N. that allowed Ukrainian grain to reach world markets safely despite the 18-month war. Kre Smugglers are steering migrants into the remote Arizona desert, posing new Border Patrol challenges 09/01/2023 11:41am • ORGAN PIPE CACTUS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Ariz. (AP) — Border Patrol agents ordered the young Senegalese men to wait in the scant shade of desert scrub brush while they loaded a more vulnerable group of migrants — a family with three young children from India — into a white van for the short trip i NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 09/01/2023 09:07am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ The CDC didn’t say vaccinated people are more a Car bomb explosions and hostage-taking inside prisons underscore Ecuador's fragile security 09/01/2023 01:41am • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's fragile security situation was underscored Thursday by a series of car bombings and the hostage-taking of more than 50 law enforcement officers inside various prisons, just weeks after the country was shaken by the assassination of a presidential candidate. Ecuadorâ Labor Day 2023: What's open, what's closed in the DC area 08/31/2023 10:33pm • The unofficial end of summer is upon us. Even though some area school districts have only been back in session for a week, all public schools in the D.C. area will be closed for Labor Day on Monday, Sept. 4. Here's what else you need to know about schools, transportation, trash collection, librar Election workers have gotten death threats and warnings they will be lynched, the US government says 08/31/2023 08:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a dozen people nationally have been charged with threatening election workers by a Justice Department unit trying to stem the tide of violent and graphic threats against people who count and secure the vote. Government employees are being bombarded with threats even in Elon Musk says X, formerly Twitter, will have voice and video calls, updates privacy policy 08/31/2023 01:58pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk said Thursday that his social network X, formerly known as Twitter, will give users the ability to make voice and video calls on the platform. Musk, who has a history of making proclamations about coming features and policies that have not always come to fruition, di Filipino who helped tame insurgency and pro-poor Indian cancer doctor among Magsaysay awardees 08/31/2023 11:26am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine university professor who became a peace negotiator and helped ease decades of Muslim insurgency violence in her country and an Indian doctor, who chose to work in a far-flung rural region to reach poor cancer patients desperately in need of medical help were Russia earns less from oil and spends more on war. So far, sanctions are working like a slow poison 08/31/2023 10:52am • The Russian ruble's wobble in value has exposed a crack in President Vladimir Putin's fortress economy, a vulnerability quickly plastered over by the Kremlin's economic team in a move that allowed the currency to regain its footing, at least for now. Yet the patch — an emergency interest rate incr Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton pursued perks beyond impeachment allegations, ex-staffers say 08/31/2023 10:51am • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Unexplained Caribbean and European trips that cost taxpayers more than $90,000. A $600 sports coat paid for by an event organizer. A $45 office Christmas cake taken as his own. These are among the perks that Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's former employees say h Russia's ruble has tumbled. What does it mean for the wartime economy? 08/31/2023 10:47am • Russia's ruble has fallen a long way in recent months, and the country’s central bank has stepped in to try to halt the slide. Until now, the government stood aside as the declining ruble helped its budget. But a weaker currency also poses the threat of higher prices for everyday people in Russia