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Southeast Asian leaders gathered in the capital of Laos on Wednesday for an annual regional forum that will focus on tackling the prolonged civil war in Myanmar and territorial tensions in the South China Sea. (AP Video: Hau Dinh)

Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz held a rally in Reno, Nevada on Tuesday. Walz, the Minnesota Governor, discussed reports about Republican former President Donald Trump that appear in famed Watergate reporter Bob Woodward's new…

Kashmir’s biggest political party opposed to India’s stripping of the region’s semi-autonomy has won most seats in a local election. That's according to official results on Tuesday. The vote was seen as a referendum against Prime Minister Nar…

An Israeli strike hit a residential building in Damascus on Tuesday evening and killed seven, Syria's state-run SANA news agency reported. The strike obliterated the first three floors of a building in the Mezzeh neighborhood, east of Damascu…

Two pioneers of artificial intelligence — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday. (AP video by Daniel Niemann/ production by Javier Arciga)

Loud explosions reverberated over the suburbs of Beirut on Tuesday night and into Wednesday. A fire was also seen burning in the capital. (AP video by Zakaria Al Khatib)

Administering an election is a balancing act that requires tabulating and releasing results as fast as possible, making it easy for as many voters as possible to participate, and keeping elections secure and voters confident in the process.

One question will be asked over and over again on election night: who won? The Associated Press will answer that question for nearly 7,000 races across the country and up and down the ballot. Here is how the AP declares winners in elections.

Sebastian Stan says he tuned out news about former President Donald Trump while he was shooting "The Apprentice," about Trump's early career in the 1970s and '80s. (Oct. 8)

Clearwater Beach residents packed their cars with belongings Tuesday as they got ready to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton. Milton remains a ferocious storm that could land a once-in-a-century direct hit on Tampa and St. Petersburg. (AP Vid…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the people of Lebanon on Tuesday, saying that Hezbollah was “weaker than it has been for many, many years,� and called on the Lebanese people to "stand up and take your country back."

A Clearwater Beach, Florida resident who house was badly damaged during Hurricane Helene was back Tuesday getting items before Hurricane Milton arrived. (AP Video by Haven Daley and Kate Payne, AP Production by Ao Gao)

More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia have filed lawsuits against TikTok. They are alleging the popular short-form video app is designed to be addictive to kids and harms young people's mental health.