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How a student-run uprising led to the ouster of Bangladesh���s longest-serving prime minister 08/13/2024 05:23am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� In a video that lit up social media feeds in Bangladesh, jubilant protesters climbed atop a statue of Sheikh Mujib Rahman, the country���s first leader after independence, and beat it with iron rods and axes as people below hooted and cheered. Crowds across the nation have attacke Millions of campaign dollars aimed at tilting school voucher battle are flowing into state races 08/13/2024 12:05am • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Millions of dollars are being spent this year to steer voters toward candidates for Republican-led Legislatures who not only support school vouchers, but will become key figures in implementing school choice programs in states across the U.S. Most recently, national pro-vou Israel-Hamas war latest: Leaders of France, Germany and Britain endorse push for cease-fire in Gaza 08/12/2024 11:42pm • The leaders of France, Germany and Britain in a joint statement have endorsed the latest push by mediators United States, Qatar and Egypt to broker an agreement to end the 10-month Israel-Hamas war. They also call for the return of scores of hostages held by Hamas and the ���unfettered��� delivery o The Latest: Trump interview with Elon Musk on X plagued by glitches 08/12/2024 10:51pm • Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are painting much different pictures as they meet with voters on the campaign trail. Harris, by turns, is pushing ���joy��� ��� branding the Democratic ticket, which includes her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, ���as joyful warrio Former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, one-time hero to election deniers, convicted in computer breach 08/12/2024 10:36pm • DENVER (AP) ��� Former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, the first local election official to be charged with a security breach after the 2020 election as unfounded conspiracy theories swirled, was found guilty by a jury on most charges Monday. Peters, a one-time hero to election deniers, was accused of From Paris to Los Angeles: How the city is preparing for the 2028 Olympics 08/12/2024 10:26pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� It's Los Angeles' turn for the torch. Mayor Karen Bass accepted the Olympic flag at the Paris closing ceremony Sunday, before handing it off to a key representative of LA's local business ��� Tom Cruise ��� who in a pre-recorded trek via motorcycle, plane and parachute kicked of Saying 'I Do' for the Second Time? 08/12/2024 08:00pm • Whether their first marriages ended in death or divorce, many men and women find a new partner and say "I do" a second time. Remarriage rates have dropped over the past 30 years, according to data from Bowling Green State University. Still, nearly a quarter of marriages in 2022 were remarriages. "It Pennsylvania man accused of voting in 2 states faces federal charges 08/12/2024 05:34pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ��� A man faces federal charges that he voted in both Florida and in Pennsylvania for the 2020 presidential election, and twice in Pennsylvania during the November 2022 election. The U.S. attorney's office in Philadelphia said Friday it had filed five charges against 62-year-old Harris is pushing joy. Trump paints a darker picture. Will mismatched moods matter? 08/12/2024 04:56pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� At the top of his first speech as her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz turned to Vice President Kamala Harris and declared, ���Thank you for bringing back the joy.��� The next day, Harris took the theme a step further, branding the Democratic ticket ���joyful warriors.��� Co New metal detectors delay students' first day of school in one South Florida district 08/12/2024 04:31pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� The first day back to school in South Florida���s Broward County got off to a chaotic start as a disorganized rollout of new metal detectors kept students waiting in lines long after the first bell rang. At high schools across the nation's sixth largest district, scores of Released Palestinians describe worsening abuses in Israeli prisons 08/12/2024 09:26am • OUTSIDE OFER PRISON, West Bank (AP) ��� Frequent beatings, overcrowding, withholding of basic rations. Released Palestinians have described to The Associated Press worsening abuses in Israeli prisons crammed with thousands detained since the war in Gaza began 10 months ago. Israeli officials have ac Donald Trump's campaign says its emails were hacked 08/12/2024 09:00am • Former President Donald Trump���s presidential campaign said Saturday that it has been hacked and suggested Iranian actors were involved in stealing and distributing sensitive internal documents. The campaign provided no specific evidence of Iran's involvement, but the claim comes a day after Mic Bangladesh protests are not the first time student uprisings have helped bring about radical change 08/12/2024 01:05am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� In Bangladesh, weeks of protests against a quota system for government jobs turned into a broad uprising that forced the prime minister to flee the country and resign. The demonstrations began peacefully weeks ago and were primarily led by students frustrated with the system that t Families of Brazilian plane crash victims gather in Sao Paulo as French experts join investigation 08/11/2024 07:41pm • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� More than 40 families of victims of an airliner crash in Brazil gathered Sunday at a morgue and hotels in Sao Paulo as three French government investigators arrived in the country. Forensics experts worked to identify the remains of the 62 people killed. Sao Paulo state government Iran���s president proposes an ex-nuclear negotiator as foreign minister. A woman is also on the list 08/11/2024 05:04pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Sunday proposed former nuclear negotiator Abbas Araghchi as the country���s new foreign minister and also sought to appoint a woman as roads and housing minister. If approved, she would be Iran's first female minister in mor