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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends the inauguration ceremony of the Innovation and Excellence Compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Mahmoud Abbas postpones Palestinian legislative elections another year

By Sam Metz

October 10, 2026 at 1:38 p.m.

President Mahmoud Abbas postponed what would have been the first Palestinian elections in nearly 20...

Rescue workers carry a body after pulling from the rubble of a residential building destroyed by a Russian airstrike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)

Pres. Donald Trump says Ukraine should get a new president as he blames Zelenskyy for US diesel prices

By Susie Blann

October 10, 2026 at 12:44 p.m.

President Donald Trump says it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president, suggesting current...

In this image from video provided by WJET, police gather outside the scene of a shooting in Erie, Pa., on Friday evening, Oct. 9, 2026. (Matt Barnum/WJET via AP)

9 dead, including gunman, after shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania: ‘I have not seen anything like this’

By Jacqueline Ganun

October 10, 2026 at 12:02 p.m.

Eight people were killed Friday in a shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, police said.

The Obama Presidential Center on June 3, 2026, in Chicago’s Jackson Park. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

More than 175,000 people have visited the Obama Presidential Center since its June opening

By Finnegan Belleau

September 27, 2026 at 3:47 p.m.

There were four known marriage proposals, three bald eagle sightings and about 11,000 “Obama Burgers”...

President Donald Trump presents the Presidents Cup trophy to USA team captain Brandt Snedeker after the U.S. won the 2026 Presidents Cup at Medinah Country Club, Sept. 27, 2026, in Medinah. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Mostly receptive crowd greets Trump at Presidents Cup in Medinah while dozens protest outside the club

By Olivia Olander

September 27, 2026 at 1:49 p.m.

It was Trump’s first public appearance in the Chicago area since he won the 2024...

Fire Captain Lui Sales of the Hawaii Fire Department looks for residents to help as rainwater from nearby Hurricane Nolo flood a section of Mamalahoa highway Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, near Naalehu, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Hurricane Nolo gains speed as it moves away from Hawaii, but high winds, flash floods are still risk

By Eugene Garcia

September 27, 2026 at 1:58 p.m.

Hurricane Nolo was moving away from the Hawaiian Islands on Sunday, but the threat of...

Green Line train heading to Forest Park evacuated Saturday

By Finnegan Belleau

September 27, 2026 at 11:56 a.m.

The incident was not a derailment, and all train wheels remained on the tracks, according...

Protesters hold banners ahead of a Portadown District Loyal Orange Lodge (LOL) No 1 march in the first parade for almost 30 years, after the parade was given clearance in a late-night hearing, in Portadown, Northern Ireland, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026. (Peter Morrison/PA via AP)

Tensions run high in Northern Ireland after contentious Orange Order march given go-ahead

By Pan Pylas

September 27, 2026 at 11:03 a.m.

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham called for calm in Northern Ireland on Sunday after a...

FILE – Relatives pose for a photograph holding a palm-sized brass Holocaust plaque in German reading, “Johanna Berger, born in 1893, lived here; deported on Nov. 17, 1941, murdered on Nov. 25, 1941 in Kowno/Kaunas Fort IX,” by artist Gunter Demnig prior to the placing of the so called, “Stolperstein,” or “Stumbling Blocks,” in front of her former home in Berlin, Germany, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

German town sparks outrage as far-right and conservatives rally against Holocaust memorial plaques

By Jamey Keaten

September 27, 2026 at 10:56 a.m.

A decision by a city council in in eastern Germany to halt the laying of...

FILE – A statue of the MTV Moon Man appears on the red carpet at the MTV Video Music Awards on Aug. 20, 2018, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

The MTV VMAs are here with Taylor Swift making history and Madonna leading the nods: How to watch

By Maria Sherman

September 27, 2026 at 9:46 a.m.

The 2026 MTV Video Music Awards are here and Taylor Swift will receive the inaugural...

In this handout photo provided by Vatican Media Pope Leo XIV prays at the Grotto of the Apparitions of Massabielle, in Lourdes, France, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. (Vatican Media via AP)

Pope Leo blasts assisted dying as ‘false compassion’ at French shrine known for miraculous cures

By Nicole Winfield

September 27, 2026 at 3:49 p.m.

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday blasted the legalization of medically assisted death as immoral “false...

Emergency services at the scene of an incident close to RAF Fairford,, in Whelford, England, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026 .(Ben Birchall/PA via AP)

5 men arrested near air base used by US in Iran war on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act

By Pan Pylas

September 27, 2026 at 10:15 a.m.

UK police said Sunday that five men arrested in the middle of the night near...

Denise Taylor of Manchester, N.H., is buffeted by the wind as she films the raging sea during a nor’easter storm in Hampton, N.H., Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Powerful nor’easter floods Northeast, leaves over 100,000 without power as high tides threaten coast

By Leah Willingham

September 27, 2026 at 9:34 a.m.

A powerful nor’easter continued to batter the Northeast on Sunday, flooding coastal communities and leaving...