The Jehovahs Witnesses have partly eased their longstanding prohibition on the medical use of donated blood, allowing members to receive products derived from blood but maintaining a ban on transfusions of whole blood. The policy, announced Friday, is the second revision this year in what has long been one of the most controversial and distinctive...

WASHINGTON (AP) Denmark PM says deal with US on Greenland will be signed by three governments next week during UN General Assembly.

ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) Denny Glover was hoping for a big catch when he went fishing with buddies on the Sacramento River, but he wasn’t expecting a fully grown humpback whale. Glover saw the whale surfacing on Wednesday while he was fishing for salmon and striped bass from a 21-foot (6.4-meter) boat, less than half...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) Seventy-five absentee in-person ballots cast by voters in rural western Alaska communities arrived too late to be counted in last month’s primary election, officials said. The Alaska Division of Elections blamed a mail delivery delay that affected voters in seven communities, with Kotzebue, Igiugig and Naknek combining for 62 of the...

NEW YORK (AP) Florida is experiencing one of its worst surges of dengue fever in decades, and the toll now includes a death. The Florida Department of Health confirmed the death Friday, though it didn’t provide further details. It’s one of more than 130 locally acquired dengue cases reported so far this year in...

WASHINGTON (AP) Federal law banning licensed firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults under age 21 is unconstitutional and can’t be enforced, the Justice Department said in a legal opinion released Friday. The opinion from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel says the law aimed at making it harder for 18- to...

WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. military’s price tag for the Iran war has grown to $43.6 billion as of Sept. 3, according to a new estimate provided this week to lawmakers. The figure from U.S. Central Command, which oversees operations in the Middle East, offers the most up-to-date cost for the conflict since it was...

Michigans workforce training program spent over $59 million to reimburse employers for on-the-job training, rather than fund education to boost skills and wages, a state audit released Thursday found. The finding on the Going Pro Talent Fund comes as candidates and state officials target Michigans drop to 39th in US educational attainment rankings despite ...

HAVANA (AP) Cubas power grid collapsed on Friday, leaving millions of people across the island without electricity. The Ministry of Energy and Mines announced the blackout on its official X account without giving a cause and added that officials had begun activating service-restoration protocols. Power grid collapses have become increasingly common over ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) Brazilian President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva unveiled a pilot plan Friday to expand the federal governments role in fighting organized crime in Rio de Janeiro, spotlighting a major voter concern in the lead-up to Octobers presidential election. The plan expands existing joint operations among federal, state and municipal authorities...

TORONTO (AP) Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday cast Canada as moving quickly beyond its historical reliance on the United States after a whirlwind week in which he embraced the prospect of becoming the European Unions first associate member. Carney, who returned from Europe on Thursday night, said Canada and Europe had launched...

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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) Nepal held a day of mourning Monday to remember those killed in the Aug. 26 floods, with flags lowered at government offices and families concluding mourning rituals. Monday was the 13th day since the flooding which killed more than 1,300 people in Nepal and Tibet and left some 5,000 missing, including...

The woman pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter by gross negligence and second-degree assault.

At Gov. Greg Abbotts direction, the Texas Department of Transportation has stopped issuing permits allowing Flock cameras and other automated license plate readers to be installed along state roads. The pause, confirmed Thursday by an agency spokesperson, does not affect cameras already installed along state rights-of-way, including more than 900 cameras ...

CHICAGO (AP) As Paramount looks to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, its racked up billions of dollars in financial backing from three Gulf countries. And the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has now approved the company’s ask for sizeable indirect ownership from those foreign investors. The FCC cleared the way on Thursday, granting sovereign ...

Inspectors are on the road every year, looking for the "best restaurants to recommend and what theyve found is too good to keep a secret," according to the Michelin Guide website.

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) A previously unknown cat species has been identified in plain sight: at a wildlife sanctuary in Bolivia, where the small, spotted feline had been living for years after being taken in by a local family. The discovery, reported Thursday in the journal Current Biology, marks the first time scientists have...

Interim police chief Jeffery Carroll said that the department's internal affairs division is investigating the cases, one of which was first identified by Flock's auditing tool.

Earlier this year, some Pennsylvanians with disabilities and their families won a major victory. Commonwealth Court struck downtwo rules that affected people with intellectual disabilities and autism in Pennsylvanias Medicaid program, saying the state didnt follow a required process for implementing those rules as regulations and they must be considered ...

WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon has rolled out formal guidance for mandatory testosterone testing for male service members 30 and older, a policy that leaves out women for now and faces questions from medical experts about the need and efficacy of such a program. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced in July that a new program...

BOSTON (AP) The lone juror who wanted to convict Lindsay Clancy of murder for killing her three children said he was certain of her guilt, but that other jurors wouldn’t listen to him, according to a statement released by his lawyer Friday in his first public comments on the case. Eleven of 12 jurors...

County Executive Marc Elrich released a statement Friday, saying he accepted the police chief's resignation and thanked him for his service.

LOS ANGELES (AP) Six years ago, jet fuel was dumped from the sky onto a working-class city near Los Angeles International Airport, spattering onto children at an elementary school. For writer and director Walter Thompson-Hernndez, who grew up nearby, the incident sparked a coming-of-age story that grapples with the contradictions of life under the...

Duncan Sheik, the Tony- and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter who crafted the music for Spring Awakening, has died. He was 56.