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How to Set Up Your Home for Aging in Place 10/06/2025 08:00pm • Aging in place is the preferred way to get older for many adults. In fact, numerous surveys and studies -- including a 2022 study in the Delaware Journal of Public Health -- show that a majority of adults prefer to stay in their homes for as long as possible. However, simply remaining in the home wh How to Prepare Your Child for a Hospital Stay 10/06/2025 08:00pm • When my son was a year and a half, he got a cold and began having difficulty breathing. After taking him to the emergency room, my husband and I learned he would need to spend an overnight, perhaps a few days, in the hospital to receive breathing treatments. We weren't prepared for our child's hospi Trump Proposed Eliminating Social Security Taxes. Here Are the Bills That Could Make It Happen 10/06/2025 08:00pm • While on the campaign trail, President Donald Trump promised to end taxes on Social Security benefits. But you won't find that provision in "The One Big Beautiful Bill" that was signed into law over the summer. While the bill does include a "bonus deduction" for seniors, that isn't tied to Social Se The Latest: National Guard deploys as ICE uses increasingly combative tactics in US cities 10/06/2025 07:51pm • It���s now Day 6 of the shutdown, and the Democratic minority leader has challenged the Republican House speaker to a televised debate on the impasse over reopening the federal government. Mike Johnson dismissed Hakeem Jeffries��� challenge as ���theatrics.��� Mutual trust between President Donald T Maine is investigating a claim that bundles of ballots ended up in a resident's Amazon order 10/06/2025 05:24pm • AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) ��� Authorities in Maine are investigating an allegation that dozens of unmarked ballots that were to be used in this November's election arrived inside a woman's Amazon order. The town of Ellsworth reported to the state last week that it was missing a shipment of 250 absentee ba Minorities had hoped to break into Syria's new political order in the weekend vote but few succeeded 10/06/2025 03:04pm • LATAKIA, Syria (AP) ��� Syria���s minority religious and ethnic communities, wary of the country���s new authorities after outbreaks of sectarian violence, were divided in the run-up to the first parliamentary elections after the ouster of Bashar Assad, the former Syrian president. In the end, some Trump considers cutting US refugee intake to 7,500, focusing on white South Africans, officials say 10/06/2025 12:51pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump is considering admitting far fewer refugees into the U.S. this year ��� as few as 7,500, and mostly white South Africans, officials say ��� a dramatic new low as the administration is conducting sweeping immigration raids as part of its mass deportation age DOJ contradicts DeSantis: Some detainees at 'Alligator Alcatraz' likely never in removal proceedings 10/06/2025 12:01pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) ��� U.S. government lawyers say that detainees at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as ���Alligator Alcatraz��� likely include people who have never been in removal proceedings, which is a direct contradiction to what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has be Trump and Infantino: How a friendship is shaping the World Cup 10/06/2025 12:13am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The plan started coming together inside a luxury box at MetLife Stadium. As the Premier League's Chelsea was on its way to a shutout victory at the Club World Cup final in July, President Donald Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino were deep in discussion at the New Jersey s Australia and Papua New Guinea sign historic defense treaty that raised China's concern 10/06/2025 12:08am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� The leaders of Australia and Papua New Guinea signed a major bilateral defense treaty Monday that China believes targets it unfairly. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Papua New Guinea counterpart James Marape described the agreement as a mutual defense Protesters rally for and against Ecuador's president as emergency takes effect in 10 provinces 10/05/2025 08:25pm • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) ��� Protesters both for and against Ecuador ���s President Daniel Noboa rallied in the capital Quito on Sunday after a state of emergency took effect in 10 provinces. Anti-government demonstrations began two weeks ago, organized by the country���s largest Indigenous group, in res AP reader question: Do federal workers get paid during the government shutdown 10/05/2025 02:36pm • Here���s a question about the shutdown submitted by an Associated Press reader, John P.: Who gets paid during a federal shutdown? When it comes to federal employees, everybody is supposed to get paid eventually, but only a few get their paychecks while the government shutdown is still happening. Th Gaza flotilla activists allege mistreatment while being detained in Israel 10/05/2025 12:11pm • ROME (AP) ��� Some of the activists detained while trying to reach Gaza by sea have returned to their home countries to describe mistreatment at the hands of Israeli guards, claims that Israel denies. Some 450 activists were arrested as Israeli forces intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla, a fleet o Trump says he'll send National Guard to Chicago, but details remain unclear 10/05/2025 09:43am • President Donald Trump moved to deploy the National Guard in another city Saturday by authorizing 300 troops to protect federal officers and assets in Chicago, where the government said Border Patrol agents shot and injured a woman while firing at someone who tried to run them over. White House spok Trump plans aid package for US soybean farmers while seeking trade deal with China 10/05/2025 07:00am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump is planning a significant aid package to U.S. soybean farmers to help them survive China���s boycott of American beans in response to his trade war even as the president says he is still seeking a soybean deal with Beijing. But farmers are worried that time