Stock market today: Asian shares track Wall St decline, as selling hits tech companies
Markets were mostly lower in Asia on Wednesday after U.S. stocks pulled back from their records, dented by selling of technology and energy sector shares.
Largely powerless local government formed in Kashmir 5 years after India stripped its semiautonomy
Leaders of Kashmir's biggest political party were sworn into office Wednesday to run a largely powerless government after the first election since India stripped the disputed region of its special ...
A full-scale replica of Anne Frank's hidden annex is heading to New York for an exhibition
The annex where the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank hid from Nazi occupiers during World War II is heading to New York.
Takeaways from AP's report on euthanasia, doctors and ethics in Canada
Canada has arguably the world's most permissive system of euthanasia — the practice of doctors and nurse practitioners killing patients with an injection of drugs at their request. Canada allows ...
Prep sports results for Tuesday, Oct. 15
• Bloomington Jefferson 44, Orono 61, Chanhassen 63, Waconia 126, St. Louis Park 128, Benilde-St. Margaret’s 148, Chaska 155, New Prague 167. Medalist (5k): Owen Chapman, Orono, 15:33.2.
19 mayoral candidates compete to lead Portland, Oregon, in a race with homelessness at its heart
A lot of political changes are coming to Portland, Oregon. The open mayoral race in the state's most populous city features 19 candidates — all vying to lead after years of growing frustration over ...
Years of war in Congo have created a dire mental health crisis. But little support is available
For Nelly Shukuru, there was no way out. The fighting that forced her from her home, the squalid conditions in the displacement camp in eastern Congo, the hunger, all felt inescapable. The 51-year-old ...
The son of a South Carolina inmate urges the governor to save his father from execution
Richard Moore never meant to kill anyone the night he robbed a South Carolina convenience store and the Black man was convicted by a jury with no African Americans, his son and lawyers say as they ...
Republicans challenge more than 63,000 voters in Georgia, but few removed, AP finds
From Georgia's mountains to its Atlantic shore, challenges to the qualifications of voters have rolled in this summer and fall, part of a wide-ranging national effort coordinated by Donald Trump's ...
Canadian doctors who provide euthanasia struggle with the ethics of killing vulnerable patients
A homeless man refusing long-term care, a woman with severe obesity, an injured worker given meager government assistance, and grieving new widows. All of them requested to be killed under Canada's ...
First Italian navy ship with 16 intercepted migrants docks at an Albanian port to process their asylum request
First Italian navy ship with 16 intercepted migrants docks at an Albanian port to process their asylum request.
Major meeting of Asian security group begins in Pakistan to discuss security and economic ties
Officials from an international security group founded to counter Western alliances met in Pakistan's capital on Wednesday to discuss how to boost security cooperation and economic ties.