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Residents protest by banging pots and pans in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024.

Cubans struggle with an extended power outage and a new tropical storm

Residents protest by banging pots and pans in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024.

October 21, 2024, 8:43am Business

Cubans took to the streets in protest as widespread blackouts stretched into their fourth day, their concerns heightened as Hurricane Oscar crossed the island’s eastern coast with winds and heavy rain. Read story

IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR AMAZON - Holly Sullivan, Vice President of Worldwide Economic Development at Amazon, center, and Vikram Pathania, Principal Economist at Amazon, left, participate in a moderated conversation at Delivering the Future at the National Museum of African American Music on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024 in Nashville.

Amazon exec says return-to-office opponents can find ‘other companies’

IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR AMAZON - Holly Sullivan, Vice President of Worldwide Economic Development at Amazon, center, and Vikram Pathania, Principal Economist at Amazon, left, participate in a moderated conversation at Delivering the Future at the National Museum of African American Music on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024 in Nashville.

October 21, 2024, 8:42am Business

As Amazon’s five-day-a-week return-to-office policy approaches its enforcement date, a company executive is taking a hard line against those who don’t want to comply. Read story

Patrons sit at the bar for lunch at Harold&rsquo;s Cave Creek Corral, regarding Arizona Prop 138 on minimum wage Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, in Cave Creek, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D.

Should the minimum wage be lower for workers who get tipped? Two states are set to decide

Patrons sit at the bar for lunch at Harold&rsquo;s Cave Creek Corral, regarding Arizona Prop 138 on minimum wage Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, in Cave Creek, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D.

October 21, 2024, 8:42am Business

Mel Nichols, a 37-year-old bartender in Phoenix, Arizona, takes home anywhere from $30 to $50 an hour with tips included. But the uncertainty of how much she’s going to make on a daily basis is a constant source of stress. Read story

FILE - An oil platform in Israel&rsquo;s offshore Leviathan gas field is seen while an Israeli navy vessel patrols the Mediterranean Sea, Israel, on Sept. 20, 2024.

Israel’s wars are expensive. Paying the bill could force tough choices

FILE - An oil platform in Israel&rsquo;s offshore Leviathan gas field is seen while an Israeli navy vessel patrols the Mediterranean Sea, Israel, on Sept. 20, 2024.

October 21, 2024, 8:41am Business

On top of the grievous toll in human life and misery, Israel’s war against the Hamas and Hezbollah militant groups has been expensive, and the painfully high financial costs are raising concerns about the long-term effect of the fighting on the country’s economy. Read story

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan sign a wall at newly opened Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Education Center at Primakov School in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024.

Putin hosts a summit in a bid to show the West it can’t keep Russia off the global stage

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan sign a wall at newly opened Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Education Center at Primakov School in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024.

October 21, 2024, 8:32am Nation & World

In the coming days, Russian President Vladimir Putin will be shaking hands with multiple world leaders, including China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian. Read story

April McKinnon weeps as her great-granduncle, Everett Titterington, is memorialized before his burial at Riverside National Cemetery.

‘Like freeing a ghost’: A sailor’s strange and wondrous journey back from Pearl Harbor

April McKinnon weeps as her great-granduncle, Everett Titterington, is memorialized before his burial at Riverside National Cemetery.

October 21, 2024, 6:02am Latest News

LOS ANGELES -- No one knows where Everett Titterington was when the first torpedoes slammed into the USS Oklahoma on that infamous day in 1941. Was he thrown out of his bunk? Was he thrown to the deck? Did he die fast, or did he die slow? Read story

Phoenix seeing record high temperatures for October

October 21, 2024, 5:56am Nation & World

Phoenix wrapped up its annual six-month warm season last week after the Southwest broiled through an unprecedented autumn heat wave that saw daily highs in the United States’ hottest city topping 110 degrees in October for the first time on record — four times during the month so far. Read story

Israeli soldiers display what they say is an entrance to a Hezbollah tunnel found during their ground operation in southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024.

Israel unearthing Hezbollah’s web of tunnels in southern Lebanon

Israeli soldiers display what they say is an entrance to a Hezbollah tunnel found during their ground operation in southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024.

October 20, 2024, 2:53pm Nation & World

Israeli forces have spent much of the past year destroying Hamas’ vast underground network in Gaza. They are now focused on dismantling tunnels and other hideouts belonging to Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon. Read story

Two Navy aviators declared dead after fighter jet crash in Washington

October 20, 2024, 2:43pm Nation & World

Two crew members who were missing following the crash of a fighter jet in mountainous terrain in Washington during a routine training flight have been declared dead, the U.S. Navy said Sunday. Read story

Cubans struggle as power not fully restored days after blackout as hurricane nears

October 20, 2024, 2:42pm Nation & World

Many Cubans waited in anguish Sunday as electricity on much of the island had yet to be restored days after an islandwide blackout. Their concerns were also raised as Hurricane Oscar made landfall in the southeastern Bahamas and was heading toward their country. Read story