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9:07 PM on Thursday, October 2

FILE - A worker harvests cabbage March 5, 2025, in Holtville, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

A recipe for avoiding 15 million deaths a year and climate disaster is fixing food, scientists say

7:06 PM on Thursday, October 2

Scientists are presenting new evidence that the worst effects of climate change can’t be avoided without a major transformation of food systems

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and GOP leaders, from left, Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., and Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., blame the government shutdown on Democrats during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The blame game is on at federal agencies, where political messages fault Democrats for the shutdown

6:34 PM on Thursday, October 2

Americans' routine interactions with the federal government this week are increasingly being met with partisan messaging

The gateway to the Vicksburg National Military Park tour road sits closed Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, in Vicksburg, Miss. (AP Photo/Sophie Bates)

Fundraising groups step up to help reopen national park sites and welcome visitors

6:27 PM on Thursday, October 2

One of Mississippi’s most-visited cultural attractions has reopened in the midst of the government shutdown, thanks to funding from a nonprofit group

FILE - British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist Jane Goodall poses for a portrait in New York to promote the Disneynature film, "Born in China", April 7, 2017. Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, died Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. She was 91. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP File)

Goodall's influence spread far and wide. Those who felt it are pledging to continue her work

6:24 PM on Thursday, October 2

In the wake of Jane Goodall's death, the many scientists and others influenced by her are promising to do their best to carry on her legacy

Lia Post, of Springfield, Neb., leaves a meeting of the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission, where she sobbed and begged its members to honor the will of the voters in approving comprehensive access to medical marijuana, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025 in Lincoln, Neb. (AP Photo/Margery Beck)

Nebraska Republicans are targeting voter-approved medical marijuana, following other GOP-led states

6:16 PM on Thursday, October 2

Nebraska officials have missed a deadline to grant licenses to marijuana growers under a new medical marijuana law approved by voters

This photo courtesy of Dylan Miller shows Alaskan climber Balin Miller climbing the route "Croc’s Nose" at Crocodile Rock in Hyalite Canyon near Bozeman, Mont., Sept. 29, 2024. (Dylan Miller via AP)

Alaskan climbing star dies in fall from Yosemite's El Capitan

6:14 PM on Thursday, October 2

A popular Alaskan climber fell to his death from Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan

FILE - Sean "Diddy" Combs sits courtside in the second half of an NBA basketball game between the Brooklyn Nets and the New York Knicks, March 12, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

On eve of sentencing, Combs tells judge he has been 'reborn,' asks for mercy

6:07 PM on Thursday, October 2

On the eve of his sentencing, Sean “Diddy” Combs says he is a new man after realizing he was “broken to my core."

FILE - Sean Combs arrives at the Pre-Grammy Gala And Salute To Industry Icons at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Mark Von Holden/Invision/AP, File)

Sean 'Diddy' Combs will be sentenced under the Mann Act, a prostitution law from 1910

5:23 PM on Thursday, October 2

Sean “Diddy” Combs is set to be sentenced for violating the federal Mann Act, an anti-prostitution law with a century-old history

En la imagen, proporcionada por WOI Local 5 News en septiembre de 2025, aparece el superintendente de escuelas públicas de Des Moines Ian Roberts. (WOI Local 5 News vía AP)

Former Iowa superintendent charged with federal firearms offense after immigration arrest

5:03 PM on Thursday, October 2

Federal authorities have charged Ian Roberts, the former superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district, with possessing firearms while in the U.S. illegally

A woman wearing an American Red Cross shirt is seen during a service for the Sunday morning shooting at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Mich., Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Fundraiser for family of Michigan church gunman raises more than $275,000

4:46 PM on Thursday, October 2

A fundraiser for the family members of the man who opened fire in a Michigan church and set it ablaze has raised over $275,000

This photo provided by shipwreck salvage company 1715 Fleet - Queens Jewels, LLC shows Spanish coins the firm uncovered from a shipwreck off the Atlantic coast of Florida, 2025. (1715 Fleet - Queens Jewels, LLC via AP)

Excavators find $1 million in gold coins from Spanish shipwreck along Florida's 'Treasure Coast'

4:03 PM on Thursday, October 2

A team of excavators has found $1 million in treasure from a centuries-old Spanish shipwreck off a stretch of Florida known as the “Treasure Coast.”

FDA approves another generic abortion pill, prompting outrage from conservatives

3:48 PM on Thursday, October 2

Federal health officials have approved another generic version of the abortion pill, prompting outrage from some abortion opponents aligned with President Donald Trump

FILE - The U.S. District Court is seen, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun. file)

ACLU seeks release of Michigan immigrant held in custody despite life-threatening leukemia

3:09 PM on Thursday, October 2

Lawyers say federal authorities are keeping a Michigan man in custody in a deportation case, despite his life-threatening leukemia

President Donald Trump walks from Marine One after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump says US is in 'armed conflict' with drug cartels after ordering strikes in the Caribbean

1:19 PM on Thursday, October 2

President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in an “armed conflict."

Jane Goodall sits during an interview at the Fairmount Hotel in San Francisco on Oct. 4, 1996. (Liz Hafalia/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

What to know about the life and legacy of chimpanzee researcher and wildlife advocate Jane Goodall

10:55 AM on Thursday, October 2

Famed primatologist Jane Goodall was renowned for her groundbreaking work with chimpanzees but dedicated her life to helping all wild animals and the natural world

FILE - President Donald Trump silences his mobile phone in the Oval Office of the White House, May 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

The Latest: Trump uses government shutdown to dole out firings and punishment

8:45 AM on Thursday, October 2

President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, by threatening mass firings of workers and suggesting “irreversible” cuts to programs important to Democrats

FILE - A man waits for a Delta Airlines flight at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta on Jan. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Cockpit recorders of Delta jets that collided on LaGuardia taxiway are being analyzed

12:46 AM on Thursday, October 2

Two Delta Air Lines regional jets collided on the ground at LaGuardia Airport in New York, injuring a flight attendant, damaging a cockpit and tearing off part of a wing

FILE - The New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

Wall Street ticks to more records, led by technology stocks

12:31 AM on Thursday, October 2

U.S. stocks edged up to more records

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump uses government shutdown to dole out firings and political punishment

12:02 AM on Thursday, October 2

President Donald Trump is using the government shutdown to reshape the federal workforce and target detractors

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