PHOENIX — Democrat ruben gallego has been elected Arizona’s first Latino US senator, defeating Republican Kari Lake and preventing Republicans from further padding their Senate majority. Gallego’s victory continues a string of Democratic successes for the Senate in a state that was reliably Republican for those seats until Donald Trump was elected president in 2016….
OUGADOUGO, Burkina Faso — The last three years have been tough for Fanta Charlotte Dabone, a mother of three from the conflict-battered West African country of Burkina Faso, She fled her village after it was attacked by extremists, leaving her husband and her farm behind. Since then, she has been moving from place to place,…
LONDON — A father and daughter crippled by a suicide bomber who killed 22 people after an Ariana Grande concert in England in 2017 were awarded 45,000 pounds ($58,000) Friday in a case against a former television producer who claimed the tragedy was a hoax. Martin Hibbert and his daughter, Eve, won their harassment suit…
NEW YORK — An eclectic group of stars — including reality TV’s Ariana Madix, Broadway belter Idina Menzel, hip-hop’s T-Pain, members of the WNBA champions New York Liberty and country duo Dan + Shay — will feature in this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, The War and Treaty, Lea Salonga, Kylie Cantrall, The Temptations, Chlöe,…
LANSING, Mich. , Donald Trump is set to visit Dearborn, Michigan — the nation’s largest Arab-majority city — on Friday, according to a local business owner who first insisted the former president call for peace in Lebanon before hosting him. Metro Detroit is home to the nation’s largest concentration of Arab Americans, with a large…
LAS VEGAS — Nevada Democratic US Sen. Jacky Rosen and Republican challenger Sam Brown painted each other as extremists, but fireworks were few during their only face-to-face debate in a presidential battleground state where the Nov. 5 election could determine control of both the White House and the Senate. The election pits Rosen, a first-term…
WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is embracing perhaps Hollywood’s most memorable drill sergeant to portray his vision of a hardened military and mock the Biden administration’s embrace of the LGBTQ+ community serving openly. Trump’s recent rallies have featured a video with clips of R. Lee Ermey as Marine Gunnery Sgt. Hartmann in Stanley…
NEW YORK — Horror came with sunrise following an all-night rave near the Gaza border on Oct. 7, 2023, the hamas attack Presaged by rockets that some young people mistakenly thought were fireworks. A new documentary shows the attack unfold over the next hours in stomach-churning detail: Gunmen mowing down passengers in cars that try…
CAIRO– As the performers took the stage and the traditional drum beat gained momentum, Sudanese refugees sitting in the audience were moved to tears. Hadia Moussa said the melody reminded her of the country’s Nuba Mountains, her family’s ancestral home. “Performances like this help people mentally affected by the war. It reminds us of the…
WASHINGTON — ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky huddled with US leaders on Thursday to shore up American support for his country’s fight against Russia as the war faces a partisan reckoning in this year’s presidential election. Vice President Kamala Harristhe Democratic nominee for president, has pledged to continue sending military assistance to Ukraine if she’s elected….
