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11:37 AM on Saturday, October 11

There are no survivors in the blast at a Tennessee explosives factory, sheriff says

11:09 AM on Saturday, October 11

Fewer choices may be on the menu again as Medicare patients shop for prescription coverage this fall

11:01 AM on Saturday, October 11

A Mississippi state senator says four people were killed in a shooting in a small town in the Mississippi Delta region after a high school football homecoming game there

10:48 AM on Saturday, October 11

4 dead in shooting that injured others after homecoming football game in Mississippi, official says (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert that erroneously stated the dateline as HEIDELBERG, Miss.)

9:44 AM on Saturday, October 11

Police in a small Mississippi town are investigating a shooting during the school’s homecoming weekend that left two people dead

8:37 AM on Saturday, October 11

A doctors' group says that Sudanese paramilitary forces have attacked a shelter in a besieged Darfur city, killing at least 53 people

8:33 AM on Saturday, October 11

At least 53 people were killed in an attack by Sudanese paramilitaries in a besieged Darfur city, doctors say

8:00 AM on Saturday, October 11

Former first lady Michelle Obama is putting new force behind efforts to ensure girls overcome educational barriers in some of the world’s most economically disadvantaged areas

7:48 AM on Saturday, October 11

The cryptocurrency industry spent millions last year to unseat a longtime critic, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio, and install its allies in Washington

6:36 AM on Saturday, October 11

Before white settlers came to Onondaga Lake and the city of Syracuse grew along its shore, it was a sacred place for the Onondaga Nation

6:27 AM on Saturday, October 11

6:24 AM on Saturday, October 11

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so

6:12 AM on Saturday, October 11

Visitors to Athens can now enjoy an unobstructed view of the Parthenon

5:55 AM on Saturday, October 11

Wolfgang Bivour, a renowned fungi expert in Germany, leads mushroom hunting tours near Potsdam

2:11 AM on Saturday, October 11

Power has been restored to over 800,000 residents in Kyiv, a day after Russia launched major attacks on Ukraine's power grid, causing widespread blackouts

1:12 AM on Saturday, October 11

The most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader — Marwan Barghouti — is not among the prisoners Israel intends to free in exchange for hostages held by Hamas under the new Gaza ceasefire deal

11:08 PM on Friday, October 10

Venezuelans in the U.S. are welcoming the news that opposition leader leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Price

9:23 PM on Friday, October 10

Las Vegas Aces win their third WNBA title in four seasons, beating Phoenix Mercury 97-86 for 4-game sweep

4:41 PM on Friday, October 10

A lawyer in Portland, Oregon, says he is representing a U.S. citizen who was detained and held at the city's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building for hours before being released

4:20 PM on Friday, October 10

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the U.S. military is moving forward with plans to build a dedicated facility in Idaho to train pilots from Qatar, an important U.S. ally in the Middle East