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FILE – Britain’s Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, looks round as he leaves after attending the Easter Matins Service at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, England, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Former Prince Andrew files a legal action to quash warrants that led to searches of his residence

By Danica Kirka

October 5, 2026 at 6:20 a.m.

The former Prince Andrew has filed a legal action challenging the warrants that authorized searches...

The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Sept. 29, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

New Supreme Court term begins with cases on climate change, immigration and gun rights

By Lindsay Whitehurst

October 5, 2026 at 6:13 a.m.

The Supreme Court’s new term begins Monday with cases on climate change, religious rights and...

In this image provided by Matt Odom, Laura Leigh Taylor, a farmer in Georgia who says she regrets voting for President Donald Trump in 2024, is pictured Sept. 29, 2026. (Matt Odom via AP)

President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown divides rural voters as midterms approach, AP-KFF poll finds

By Linley Sanders

October 5, 2026 at 6:11 a.m.

More than a year into President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown, a poll finds that...

Police officers guard a road leading to RAF Fairford, after an incident in Fairford, England, Monday Sept. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

US Air Force removes all bombers from British air base targeted by a suspected terror attack

By Konstantin Toropin

October 4, 2026 at 4:56 p.m.

The U.S. Air Force has brought home its bombers stationed at a U.S.-run military air...

Matsapha Correctional Complex is seen in Matsapha, near Mbabane, Eswatini, July 17, 2025. (AP Photo, File)

An immigrant deported by the US and held in an African prison for more than a year has been released

By Gerald Imray

October 4, 2026 at 3:59 p.m.

A Laotian citizen deported by the United States to Eswatini under the Trump administration’s immigration...

Police tape flaps in the breeze near the corner of 24th Street and South Rockwell Street, where an off-duty police officer shot a man just after midnight, on Oct. 4, 2026, in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. (Arthur Maiorella/baiduhai)

Off-duty police officer shoots man in Little Village during physical altercation, police say

By Adriana Pérez

October 4, 2026 at 3:14 p.m.

The officer was driving in the 2600 block of West 24th Street when he stopped...

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Supreme Court to weigh whether oil companies can be forced to pay for climate damage

By David G. Savage

October 4, 2026 at 2:21 p.m.

The Supreme Court will open its new term Monday by hearing arguments on whether the...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, centre, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz speak to media with National Academy of science building damaged after a Russian drone strike, on the background, Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Germany’s Merz announces new aid for Ukraine in Kyiv as Russia steps up attacks

By Susie Blann

October 4, 2026 at 3:24 p.m.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced a new aid package for Ukraine worth more than €1.3...

Greta Gerwig appears at the 37th annual Producers Guild Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 28, 2026, left, and Meryl Streep appears at The Albies in London on Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo)

A familiar figure, a new voice: Meryl Streep’s Aslan stirs gender debate over Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’

By Peter Smith

October 4, 2026 at 11:23 a.m.

The public hasn’t viewed a frame from director Greta Gerwig’s movie adaptation of the classic...

In this photo released by U.S. Coast Guard, crew members search by air and on the water for a Boston-bound air ambulance that vanished off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026. (U.S. Coast Guard via AP)

Search suspended for 6 people on missing medical flight from Bermuda to Boston

By John Raby

October 4, 2026 at 8:04 p.m.

Authorities on Sunday suspended the search off the Massachusetts coast for six people on an...

This photo provided by the Tennessee Department of Correction shows Christa Pike on Jan. 12, 2023. (TDOC via AP)

Christa Pike’s lawyer says she has not regained consciousness since her failed Tennessee execution

By Jeffrey Collins

October 4, 2026 at 11:10 a.m.

Christa Pike has remained unconscious and on a ventilator at a hospital in the four...

FILE – Jay Clayton testifies during a Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill, July 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, file)

President Trump names national intelligence director Jay Clayton to lead a new federal AI task force

By Associated Press

October 4, 2026 at 9:41 a.m.

President Donald Trump on Sunday tapped Jay Clayton, his director of national intelligence, to lead...

FILE – U.S. MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft are parked at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, on the main island of the Okinawa archipelago, southern Japan, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)

US Marine arrested for alleged murder of a woman on Okinawa, triggers outrage from Japan

By Mari Yamaguchi

October 4, 2026 at 9:38 a.m.

Japanese police arrested a U.S. Marine in the alleged robbery and murder of a woman...