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FILE - Chow Hang-tung, vice chairperson of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Democratic Patriotic Movements of China, poses after an interview in Hong Kong on May 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

Hong Kong court rejects Tiananmen vigil organizer's bid to quash indictment

2:33 AM on Monday, November 3

A Hong Kong court has rejected an attempt by former Tiananmen vigil organizer Chow Hang-tung to quash her indictment

FILE - The Food and Drug Administration seal is seen at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

FDA's top drug regulator resigns after federal officials probe 'serious concerns'

12:50 AM on Monday, November 3

The head of the Food and Drug Administration’s drug center abruptly resigned Sunday amid concerns about his personal conduct

President Donald Trump is illuminated by a camera flash as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025, in Washington, after returning from a trip to Florida. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Government shutdown could become longest ever as Trump says he 'won't be extorted' by Democrats

12:09 AM on Monday, November 3

The government shutdown is poised to become the longest ever this week as the impasse between Democrats and Republicans has dragged into a new month

Dairy products, which are covered by the USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), is displayed for sale at a grocery store Friday, Oct. 31, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Trump administration faces a deadline to tell judges whether it will use contingency funds for SNAP

12:09 AM on Monday, November 3

President Donald Trump’s administration faces deadlines on Monday to tell two federal judges whether it will comply with court orders that it continue to fund the nation’s biggest food aid program using contingency funds during the government shutdown

FILE - Republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli, left, shake hands with Democratic candidate for governor Mikie Sherrill, right, before a gubernatorial debate Sept. 21, 2025, in Lawrenceville, N.J. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray, File)

What's on the ballot in the first general election since Donald Trump became president

12:05 AM on Monday, November 3

Donald Trump features prominently in state and local elections happening Tuesday, a year after he retook the White House

FILE - Students help put away supplies at the end of a reading and writing lesson at the Head Start program run by Easterseals, an organization that gets about a third of its funding from the federal government, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Some Head Start preschools shutter as government shutdown continues

12:02 AM on Monday, November 3

The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving many working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of preschool

National Guard soldiers patrol on the National Mall near the U.S. Capitol, Friday, Oct. 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Hearings to focus on National Guard deployments in the nation's capital and Memphis, Tennessee

11:57 PM on Sunday, November 2

Hearings are set in two states over the deployment of the National Guard as part of President Donald Trump's crime-fighting efforts

People protest outside a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, Ore., Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Judge again bars Trump administration from deploying troops to Portland

11:35 PM on Sunday, November 2

A federal judge in Oregon has once again barred President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard to Portland, Oregon until at least Friday

People carry the coffin of late Mayor Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodríguez, who was shot during Day of the Dead celebrations, in Uruapan, Michoacan state, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexican mayor killed during Day of the Dead celebrations

4:54 PM on Sunday, November 2

Authorities have reported that a mayor in Mexico’s Michoacan state was shot and killed during Day of the Dead festivities

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright comments on the National Nuclear Security Administration furloughing 1,400 federal workers as part of the shutdown which began Oct. 1, during a news conference at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) in Las Vegas on Monday Oct. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)

Trump's testing plans for US nuclear weapons won't include explosions, energy secretary says

4:22 PM on Sunday, November 2

Energy Secretary Chris Wright says that new tests of the U.S. nuclear weapons system ordered up by President Donald Trump will not include nuclear explosions

Serbian riot police separate rival crowds of opponents and loyalists of autocratic President Aleksandar Vucic, a day after tens of thousands of people joined a huge rally in the northern city of Novi Sad marking the first anniversary of a train station disaster there that killed 16 people, in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

Riot police separate opponents, loyalists of Serbia's president as tensions soar amid protests

3:41 PM on Sunday, November 2

Riot police in Belgrade have separated opponents and supporters of Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic as political tensions rose after a year of anti-government protests

President Donald Trump gestures while walking across the South Lawn of the White House, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025, in Washington, after returning from a trip to Florida. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump says he 'won't be extorted' by Democrats, shuns negotiations as shutdown drags on

3:19 PM on Sunday, November 2

President Donald Trump says he “won’t be extorted” by Democrats to reopen the government, making clear that he has no plans to negotiate as the government shutdown will soon enter its sixth week

Rescue teams carry bodies of victims of a landslide in the hilly area of Chesongoch in Elgeyo Marakwet county, western Kenya, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)

Kenyan landslide death toll rises to 26 as flash floods hamper search for survivors

11:35 AM on Sunday, November 2

The death toll from a deadly landslide in western Kenya has risen to 26 after four more bodies were retrieved

A vendor sells local newspapers with headlines referring to US President Donald Trump's comments about Nigeria, on the street of Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

What to know as Nigeria rejects US military threat over alleged Christian killings

10:46 AM on Sunday, November 2

A Nigerian government official says the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump cannot unilaterally carry out any military operation in Nigeria over its claims of Christian persecution in the West African country

FILE - A banner reads: "EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfer) Accepted Here," at El Recuerdo Market in Los Angeles, Oct. 31, 2025, after two federal judges ordered President Donald Trump's administration to continue funding SNAP during the government shutdown. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, file)

The end of federal food aid could hit Black Americans hardest

9:08 AM on Sunday, November 2

One in eight Americans use federal food aid but halting the SNAP program would hurt Black Americans more than anyone else

Hristijan Mickoski, center, the leader of the conservative VMRO-DPMNE party applauds in front of the party headquarters after announcing a "great" victory in the local elections, in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

Ruling conservatives in North Macedonia cement victory in local elections, main opposition trounced

7:08 AM on Sunday, November 2

North Macedonia's ruling conservatives cemented victory in a local election runoff on Sunday, winning just over two-thirds of the mayoral contests in both rounds, leaving opposition Social Democrats far behind and dashing their hopes of an early general election

FILE - Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu attends an ECOWAS meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, Sunday, June 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga, File)

Trump threatens Nigeria with potential military action, escalates claim of Christian persecution

1:08 PM on Saturday, November 1

U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s ordered the Pentagon to begin planning for potential military action in Nigeria

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