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Tanzania's first female president has defied early hopes that she would ease repression 10/24/2025 06:31am • KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) ��� Less than six months after Samia Suluhu Hassan was inaugurated as Tanzania���s first woman president in 2021, the country���s most famous cartoonist depicted her in a military general���s uniform under the title ���Dictatoress.��� In the cartoon by Tanzanian-born Gado, drawn One family fled Afghanistan. Then US deportations scattered them across the world 10/23/2025 10:10pm • As they walked up to the thick metal pillars of the border wall dividing Tijuana and San Diego, the Hussaini siblings carried nothing from their lives in Afghanistan than a hazy fantasy of what awaited them on the other side. Amir, 21, and his sisters, Suraiya, 26, and Bano, 27, arrived in northern How inflatable costumes ballooned at anti-Trump rallies due to a Portland protester's frog outfit 10/23/2025 09:28pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� Seth Todd was wearing an inflatable frog costume while protesting outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Building in Portland, Oregon, when a federal officer unleashed a torrent of chemical spray directly into the costume's air vent. Video of the incident on Oct The Latest: Trump pardons Binance founder Changpeng Zhao 10/23/2025 08:56pm • President Donald Trump on Thursday pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who created the world���s largest cryptocurrency exchange and pled guilty in 2023 to enabling money laundering. Zhao served prison time for failing to stop criminals from using the platform to move money connected to child s What Will the Social Security COLA Raise Be for 2026? 10/23/2025 08:00pm • Social Security beneficiaries will see their payments increase 2.8% in January 2026, thanks to the program's annual cost-of-living adjustment. The announcement came on Friday and was delayed due to the ongoing government shutdown. Known as the COLA, this increase is intended to ensure Social Securit The Latest: NBA coaches and player charged in sports betting and Mafia-backed poker schemes 10/23/2025 07:11pm • Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and former Cleveland Cavaliers assistant Damon Jones are among 34 people charged in connection with schemes involving illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by the Mafia, authorities said on Thursday. Roz Trump gives disaster declarations to Alaska and others but denies Illinois, Vermont and Maryland 10/23/2025 06:37pm • President Donald Trump approved major disaster declarations for Alaska, Nebraska, North Dakota and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe late Wednesday, while denying requests from Vermont, Illinois and Maryland and leaving other states still waiting for answers. The decisions fell mostly along party lines, Trump backs off planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after talking to the mayor 10/23/2025 05:19pm • ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) ��� President Donald Trump said Thursday that he���s backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco to quell crime after speaking to the mayor and several prominent business leaders who said they're working hard to clean up the city. Trump had been threatening China and the United States, Fall 2025: A timeline of remarks, threats, critiques ��� and dialogue 10/23/2025 04:27pm • Tensions between the U.S. and China escalated in the weeks leading up to a possible meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. In response to recent U.S. restrictions, China plans to expand permitting requirements on rare earth products. Trump has threatened a 100% Backing Israel was considered mandatory for New York politicians. Then came Zohran Mamdani 10/23/2025 02:42pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A few weeks before his stunning loss to Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic mayoral primary, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo put forth a political calculus long accepted as fact in New York: ���Being a Democrat,��� he said, ���it���s synonymous that you support Israel.��� Mamdani, who would Maine Senate candidate Platner says tattoo recognized as Nazi symbol has been covered 10/23/2025 02:35pm • OGUNQUIT, Maine (AP) ��� His U.S. Senate campaign under fire, Maine Democrat Graham Platner said a tattoo on his chest has been covered to no longer reflect an image widely recognized as a Nazi symbol. The first-time political candidate said he got the skull and crossbones tattoo in 2007, when he wa What to know about the French militants who clashed with Syrian forces in Idlib 10/23/2025 01:46pm • BEIRUT (AP) ��� Clashes broke out this week between Syrian government forces and fighters in a camp in northern Syria���s Idlib province led by an internationally wanted French militant. The clashes come at a delicate moment, as Syria���s interim authorities are trying to decide how to handle the pr A fashion show in Mali's ancient city of Timbuktu promotes peace and local talent 10/23/2025 01:33pm • TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) ��� In an open field at the edge of the ancient city of Timbuktu, Mali, young models walk the runway clad in colorful traditional attires during a ���caravan for peace��� fashion event that organizers hope will lift the spirits of a city scarred by jihadi conflict. Surrounded by Youth who led Madagascar protests hope coup leader will continue to hear them as president 10/23/2025 03:48am • ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) ��� For Donah Falia and the other young people whose weeks of protests paved the way for Madagascar���s military coup last week, the change at the top has brought no immediate relief to their lives. The 20-year-old accounting student still has to wait in line for hours The Latest: North Carolina lawmakers approve map adding a GOP House seat 10/22/2025 09:21pm • North Carolina lawmakers gave final approval Wednesday to a revised U.S. House map backed by President Donald Trump that is intended to help Republicans win an additional seat in next year���s elections. The new congressional map reshapes the state���s only current swing district, held by Democratic