Category Archives: World
Fire burning in southwestern Japan damages 170 homes and forces evacuations
TOKYO (AP) - Firefighters and army helicopters battled a fire Wednesday that burned through a neighborhood of old wooden houses in a fishing town in southwestern Japan, killing one person, injuring an...
Nov 18, 2025
Tennessee governor to keep National Guard in Memphis while state appeals ruling
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee National Guard will keep supporting a crime-fighting task force ordered by President Donald Trump in Memphis after a judge blocked the troops from operating in the ...
Nov 18, 2025
DHS plans to deploy 250 border agents to Louisiana in major immigration sweep, AP sources say
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Around 250 federal border agents are set to descend on New Orleans in the coming weeks for a two-month immigration crackdown dubbed "Swamp Sweep" that aims to arrest roughly 5,000 p...
Nov 18, 2025
Congress acts swiftly to force release of Epstein files, sending bill to Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) - Both the House and Senate acted decisively Tuesday to pass a bill to force the Justice Department to publicly release its files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a remar...
Nov 18, 2025
Israeli airstrike on a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon kills 13 people, Lebanese ministry says
SIDON, Lebanon (AP) - An Israeli airstrike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed 13 people and wounded several others, state media and government officials said. It was t...
Nov 18, 2025
Federal judges block Texas from using its new US House map in the 2026 midterms
A federal court on Tuesday blocked Texas from using a redrawn U.S. House map that touched off a nationwide redistricting battle and is a major piece of President Donald Trump's efforts to preserve a s...
Nov 18, 2025
After years away from Washington, Saudi crown prince gets warm embrace from Trump, US business
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump welcomed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Washington on Tuesday as the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia makes his first White House visit since the 2018 killi...
Nov 18, 2025
One of 25 abducted students in Nigeria escapes as the search continues for the missing girls
MAGA, Nigeria (AP) - A schoolgirl who was abducted with 24 others from a dormitory in northwestern Nigeria has escaped and is safe, the school's principal told The Associated Press on Tuesday, as hunt...
Nov 18, 2025
Poland says 2 Ukrainians working for Russia are suspected in railway track blast
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Two Ukrainian citizens working for Russia are suspected of blowing up a railway line in Poland over the weekend, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday. Speaking to the Sejm, th...
Nov 18, 2025
1 Israeli killed and 3 wounded in West Bank stabbing as UN approves Trump's Gaza plan
JERUSALEM (AP) - Palestinian attackers stabbed an Israeli to death and wounded three more in the West Bank on Tuesday before being shot down by troops in the latest violence to rock the occupied terri...
Nov 18, 2025