A weary Puerto Rico prepares for referendum, new leaders

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Voters across Puerto Rico on Tuesday are choosing new leaders they hope can help heal a U.S. territory wracked by corruption, hurricanes, earthquakes and the coronavirus pandemic.

CORRECTION: Turkish rescuers pull girl out alive from the rubble 4 days after strong earthquake (Deletes word 'baby')

IZMIR, Turkey (AP) — CORRECTION: Turkish rescuers pull girl out alive from the rubble 4 days after strong earthquake (Deletes word 'baby').

5 dead in Vienna shooting; Attacker sympathized with IS

VIENNA (AP) — Five people have died, including an assailant, and 17 others were wounded in a shooting in the heart of Vienna hours before a coronavirus lockdown started, Austrian authorities said Tuesday.

EXPLAINER: Election unprecedented some ways, in others not

The election of 2020 has been called many things: extraordinary, bizarre, unprecedented.

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New Mexico: Issue Senior Facility Bonds (Improve, create, equip)

Powerful Hurricane Eta threatens flooding in Central America

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Dangerously powerful Hurricane Eta churned toward Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast with potentially devastating winds, while heavy rains thrown off by its storm bands already were causing river…

EXPLAINER: Calling a race is tricky: How AP does it

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the 2020 U.S. general election, The Associated Press will declare winners in more than 7,000 races – starting with the White House and reaching down the ballot to every seat in every state legi…

EXPLAINER: Senate majority outcome may take weeks or more

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thirty-five U.S. Senate seats are on the ballot Tuesday, which will determine control of the legislative chamber for the next two years.

Afghans mourn those killed in horrific IS university attack

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan declared a national day of mourning on Tuesday to honor the 22 people killed in a horrific attack a day earlier on Kabul University, which was claimed by the Islamic State grou…

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Nebraska: Allow Racetrack Gaming (Constitutional Amendment)

EXPLAINER: From the 2020 election, some new political terms

WASHINGTON (AP) — “So 2020” is a new phrase that made its way into America’s political lexicon this year.

Turkish rescuers pull girl from rubble 4 days after quake

IZMIR, TURKEY (AP) — Rescuers in the Turkish city of Izmir pulled a young girl out alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building Tuesday, four days after a strong earthquake hit Turkey and Greece and as h…

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Alaska: Open Primary, Ranked Choice GE (Primary top four go to GE)

Ivory Coast electoral commission says Ouattara wins 3rd term

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast's electoral commission said Tuesday that President Alassane Ouattara has overwhelmingly won a third term in office after his two main opponents boycotted the election and cal…