Six presumed dead after medical plane vanishes off Nantucket
Six people are presumed dead after a Canadian-operated medical transport aircraft disappeared off the Massachusetts coast while flying from Bermuda to Boston. T...
Brazil presidential race heads to October 25 runoff between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro
Brazil will hold a presidential runoff on October 25 after neither President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva nor Senator Flávio Bolsonaro won the majority required fo...
Spain housing protests grow after parliament rejects tenant protections
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Madrid and about 50 other Spanish cities on Oct. 3 after parliament rejected government measures aimed at easing the...
Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery Set to Become Skydance
Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery are expected to operate under the name Skydance once their roughly $110 billion transaction closes on Oct. 6. Paramount and...
Saudi-led coalition says Yemen offensive targets Houthi Red Sea gains
Saudi Arabia and its Yemeni allies have launched an offensive aimed at rolling back recent Houthi advances along Yemen's Red Sea coast, according to coalition a...
PEN America reports record nearly 12,000 school book bans
PEN America says U.S. public schools recorded nearly 12,000 book-ban instances during the 2025-2026 school year, the highest annual total since the group began...
At Least 27 Killed in Separate Mass Shootings Near Johannesburg and Cape Town
At least 27 people were killed in two separate mass shootings near Johannesburg and Cape Town, South African police said. Investigators are pursuing possible mo...
California bans child marriage, setting minimum age at 18
California has become the 18th state to prohibit marriage before age 18 without exceptions. The new law takes effect Jan. 1, 2027, ending a system that had allo...
Treasury says Trump Accounts auto-enrolled more than 60 million children
More than 60 million children have been automatically enrolled in Trump Accounts, according to the Treasury Department. But automatic enrollment does not by its...
Iran says it received U.S. response to Strait of Hormuz ceasefire proposal
Iran said it received an official U.S. response to its latest ceasefire proposal, which Iranian officials said included reopening the Strait of Hormuz in exchan...
French school protests spread as 1,747 arrested amid violence
Student blockades that began in the Paris region have spread across France, disrupting hundreds of schools and prompting clashes with police. The government say...
Trump orders US agencies to adopt 'Super Intelligence' branding
President Donald Trump has ordered federal agencies to replace references to artificial intelligence with "SI" and "Super Intelligence" in official communicatio...
Cornell case spotlights hurdles in reporting campus sexual assault
A former Cornell University student identified as Jane Doe has sued the university and seven men, alleging she was drugged and raped at a fraternity house in 20...
Putin says Russia could use all weapons after a direct attack
President Vladimir Putin said Russia would consider using all weapons at its disposal if it faced a direct attack, specifically citing the Baltic exclave of Kal...
What happened aboard the Flydubai flight that plunged 17,000 feet?
A Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after one pilot allegedly stabbed Capt. Smit Machchhar and tried to disable o...
What happened during Tennessee's failed execution of Christa Pike?
Tennessee has halted executions for the rest of 2026 after death row prisoner Christa Pike survived an attempted lethal injection involving two doses of pentoba...
Trump urges Republicans to treat midterms as a vote for him at Dallas convention
President Donald Trump used the opening night of a Republican convention in Dallas to urge supporters to act as though his name is on the November ballot. His s...
Jackson police arrest man in death of Tasia Fortune, found hanged from tree
Jackson police have arrested a 51-year-old man in connection with the death of Tasia Fortune, a Black woman found hanging from a tree near a vacant or abandoned...