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Flowers and candles are placed, Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, near the site where an ICE officer shot a Venezuelan man during a traffic stop the day before, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Jesse Bedayn)

Man shot by ICE officer is detained in Texas with a bullet still in his back, attorney’s office says

Anna Wilder And Jesse Bedayn, The Associated Press 3 minute read 11:57 AM CDT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Venezuelan man shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was in custody Monday at an ICE detention center in Texas after he was released from a hospital with a bullet still lodged in his back, according to a spokesperson for the man's attorney.

Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was making a DoorDash delivery in the Texas capital of Austin on Sunday before he was shot during a traffic stop, said Fabiana Meléndez Ruiz, a spokesperson for immigration attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch.

Ruiz said that Perez called his wife around 12:30 p.m. Sunday to tell her that he had been shot. She said Perez's wife hasn't spoken with him since then.

Perez was being detained at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall, about 130 miles (209 kilometers) southwest of Austin, Ruiz told The Associated Press. She said Lincoln-Goldfinch spoke by phone with Perez, who told her that he was being interrogated while a bullet remained in his back. Perez also said he had no pain medication, according to Ruiz.

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Blood stains the ground left behind by the victim of a gang attack in the Kenscoff neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Report offers rare insight into the risks and challenges facing US deportees in Haiti

Dánica Coto, The Associated Press 4 minute read Preview

Report offers rare insight into the risks and challenges facing US deportees in Haiti

Dánica Coto, The Associated Press 4 minute read Updated: 11:51 AM CDT

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Human Rights Watch released a report on Monday detailing the hardships faced by hundreds of people deported by the United States to gang-ravaged Haiti.

The report is the first intimate look at the lives of deportees who have declined to speak at length with journalists because they fear for their safety. Gang violence is surging and hunger and poverty are deepening.

The U.S. has deported more than 470 people to Haiti since July, including people who lost Temporary Protected Status, which had allowed them to live and work legally in the U.S.

The main international airport in Port-au-Prince is considered too dangerous because of persistent gang violence, so deportation flights are landing in the northern city of Cap-Haitien. Mayor Michel Saint-Croix told Human Rights Watch that the city’s population has tripled to more than 1 million in the past two years as it receives deportees and Haitians fleeing violence elsewhere in the country.

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FILE - An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer's badge is visible during an ICE hiring fair, Aug. 26, 2025, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

Ryan J. Foley, The Associated Press 6 minute read 11:36 AM CDT

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding thousands of detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, an unannounced move that has made it far more difficult for lawyers and relatives to find them, according to current and former officials familiar with the practice.

ICE removed those detainees from its online detainee locator system on Sept. 15, according to three current and former ICE officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the change. Several lawyers contacted by The Associated Press confirmed their clients vanished from the system this week, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association warned its members about the situation Friday.

The move represents a stark departure from previous practice and highlights the hardline nature of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, leaving thousands of detainees exceedingly hard to trace and potentially unable to exercise all of their legal options.

The practice, which applies to detainees who have received final orders of removal from an immigration court, could speed deportations by making last-minute legal challenges harder to pursue, immigration lawyers said. Nearly 16,000 people who were arrested and booked into ICE detention in July were subject to final removal orders, more than a third of the overall bookings, according to ICE data obtained by the Deportation Data Project based at U.C. Berkeley and UCLA.

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Colombia declares a public calamity as a wildfire rips toward Villa de Leyva

Steven Grattan, The Associated Press 3 minute read 11:12 AM CDT

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian authorities declared a public calamity as a wildfire burned through mountains surrounding one of the country’s best-known colonial towns in the northeast, scorching large swaths of vegetation and forcing evacuations.

Nearly 20 active fires are burning across the South American country.

Dry conditions have increased fire danger in Colombia as it braces for the effects of El Niño, which can help wildfires spread.

Fire affects tourist area in Colombia

Science & Technology

FILE - Mark Suzman, CEO and Board Member of the Gates Foundation speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative, on Sept. 24, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)

Gates Foundation launches coalition to build more representative language data sets for AI

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Gates Foundation launches coalition to build more representative language data sets for AI

James Pollard, The Associated Press 4 minute read 10:51 AM CDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The Gates Foundation is convening Anthropic, Google, OpenAI Foundation and dozens of other organizations to help make artificial intelligence more accessible in underrepresented languages.

The partners — 60 in total, according to Monday's announcement — include frontier AI labs, corporations, philanthropies and others already working to expand the number of languages available in AI tools that the Gates Foundation believes could combat global inequality. The coalition aims to reach more than 3 billion people over five years by better coordinating existing efforts.

It's work that must continue “full speed ahead," according to Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman, even as some of the largest AI companies urge their industry to slow down development of advanced models. Governments must regulate the impacts on cybersecurity or children's development, he said, while they extend AI's humanitarian applications to poor communities currently “shut out” from the technology.

“Even if AI was frozen right now — which I don’t expect and I am not calling for — we would want to be building these language sets and making them usable with the tools that we have available right now,” Suzman told The Associated Press.

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FILE - Austan Goolsbee, left, then-Council of Economic Advisers Chairman under President Barack Obama, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washingto, Feb. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Federal Reserve official says fighting inflation likely to be ‘painful’

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Federal Reserve official says fighting inflation likely to be ‘painful’

Christopher Rugaber, The Associated Press 2 minute read 10:02 AM CDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Federal Reserve official said Monday that the central bank may have to cause economic pain in the form of higher unemployment to combat stubbornly high inflation.

Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said in a speech in London that the Fed is facing a series of persistent supply shocks that have driven up inflation, including higher oil prices from the Iran war and tariffs. Typically, Goolsbee noted, the central bank would essentially wait for such shocks to fade and inflation to fall on its own rather than raise borrowing costs.

But faced with an ongoing series of persistent supply shocks, the Fed now has little choice but to hike rates, Goolsbee said. The increases are needed to lower consumer and business demand to a level consistent with reduced supply, he added, which should bring inflation back to the Fed's 2% target.

“The only way to bring inflation down is to raise rates and narrow the gap between supply and demand,” he said in a written copy of his remarks. “Forcing inflation back to target in the short run means pushing employment below target. ... In the short run, supply shocks force a difficult trade-off” between the Fed's goals of low inflation and maximum employment.

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FILE - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali attends a session at the World Atomic Week forum at the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (VDNKh) in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025. (Sergei Bulkin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Ethiopian opposition groups unite to mount challenge to prime minister Abiy

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Ethiopian opposition groups unite to mount challenge to prime minister Abiy

The Associated Press 2 minute read 8:33 AM CDT

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Seven opposition groups in Ethiopia have formed an alliance aimed at removing Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his government, according to an announcement on Sunday.

The coalition said it would be known as the Ethiopian Peoples’ Forces Alliance for Survival.

Its members are the Amhara Fano National Movement, the Oromo Liberation Army, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the Ogaden National Liberation Front, the Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front, the Benishangul Peoples’ Liberation Movement and the Gumuz Peoples’ Democratic Movement.

The leaders of the TPLF fought federal authorities in the deadly armed conflict in northern Ethiopia that ended with the signing of a peace accord in November 2022.

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Cabernet Sauvignon star of wine festival

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Former Winnipeg Jet doing his part for future of funded deaf athletes

Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES Hard-hitting former Winnipeg Jets defenceman Jim Kyte (left) was given the Order of Canada back in May by then Governor General Mary Simon for his championing the rights of athletes with disabilities. His current fight is pressuring government for equitable funding of deaf athletes.

Experts say small companions play huge role in well-being as we age

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Former Bombers linebacker Gauthier enjoying career as electrician

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Environment

This satellite image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Tropical Storm Polo, Monday, Sept. 21, 2026. (NOAA via AP)

Polo, a tropical storm in the Pacific Ocean, is expected to become a major hurricane this week

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Polo, a tropical storm in the Pacific Ocean, is expected to become a major hurricane this week

The Associated Press 2 minute read Updated: 10:21 AM CDT

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Polo will rapidly intensify in the Pacific Ocean and become a major hurricane later this week, forecasters said Monday.

Polo could bring heavy rain, rough surf and tropical-storm-force wind to parts of Mexico late Tuesday into early Wednesday, according to an advisory from the Miami-based National Hurricane Center.

Meteorologists predicted Monday that Polo would drop 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters) of rain, with isolated totals near 12 inches (30 centimeters), across coastal portions of the Mexican states of Guerrero and Michoacán through Thursday. Flooding and mudslides were possible.

Still a tropical storm as of Monday, Polo had maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (105 kph). It was centered about 255 miles (410 kilometers) south-southeast of Manzanillo, Mexico, and 200 miles (322 kilometers) southwest of Zihuatanejo. The system was moving east at 5 mph (8 kph).

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FILE - Solar panels operate April 28, 2026, at a farm in Christiana, Tenn. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

World leaders in New York to grapple with climate. Fuel prices, AI and disasters complicate things

By Seth Borenstein And Jennifer Mcdermott, The Associated Press 6 minute read Preview

World leaders in New York to grapple with climate. Fuel prices, AI and disasters complicate things

By Seth Borenstein And Jennifer Mcdermott, The Associated Press 6 minute read 8:01 AM CDT

NEW YORK (AP) — World and business leaders gathering this week in New York are being forced to grapple with the increasingly urgent costs of climate change, soaring energy prices and the human toll from this summer's oppressive heat waves, prolific wildfires and catastrophic Nepal flood.

Every year as top government officials come to the United Nations General Assembly and business executives flock to New York City Climate Week sessions, global warming generates lots of talk but little action. This time two new forces — the rise of energy-hungry artificial intelligence and data centers and higher fossil fuel prices from wars in Iran and Ukraine — should change the discussion, experts and activists said. That's on top of the usual climate-driven disasters that reached new levels of destruction, with more than 1,300 killed in sudden flooding caused by a collapsing glacier on the Nepal-China border.

“We’ve gone from seeing the fingerprints of climate change in individual events to seeing the handprint of climate change on the whole world,” said scientist Bill Hare, CEO of the organization Climate Analytics.

The effects of rising prices

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FILE - A woman carries reuable shopping bags to her car March 16, 2026, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

There’s an easy way to get rid of all the reusable bags piling up in your home

Adithi Ramakrishnan, The Associated Press 4 minute read Preview

There’s an easy way to get rid of all the reusable bags piling up in your home

Adithi Ramakrishnan, The Associated Press 4 minute read Updated: 8:45 AM CDT

NEW YORK (AP) — When professional home organizer Britnee Tanner visits her clients, she often spots extra reusable bags buried under the kitchen sink or stuffed in a corner of the pantry.

“They just are sneaky,” said Tanner, who lives in Salt Lake City. “I purchased a handful of these and then somehow I've collected ones I've never purchased, and I don't really know where they've come from.”

Reusable totes are intended as durable alternatives to single-use plastic bags. But it's easy to accumulate too many, from freebies at events to giveaways at the grocery store.

The environmental impact of a reusable bag is relatively small, so ending up with a sizable stash isn't a significant problem. Still, paring down can declutter cupboards and lead to a smaller collection that'll actually get used. As for the excess, donate to food banks and thrift stores.

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A worker waters plants on the North Lawn of the White House Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

The Latest: MS NOW, CNN and Politico file lawsuit against Trump to restore White House access

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The Latest: MS NOW, CNN and Politico file lawsuit against Trump to restore White House access

The Associated Press 11 minute read Updated: 12:00 PM CDT

CNN, MS NOW and Politico on Monday sued President Donald Trump’s administration after they were barred from covering the White House, saying the selective ban was “a blatant violation” of the First Amendment.

Meanwhile, Trump will meet with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani when Trump travels to the city for the upcoming U.N. General Assembly. The meeting is scheduled for Monday and at Gracie Mansion, the official mayoral residence. The two will discuss issues affecting the city and New Yorkers. The White House confirmed the meeting will take place but did not offer more details.

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Republican Senate candidate Ashley Hinson draws jabs from opponent for post that linked high costs to Iran war

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Kamala Harris launches into the 2026 midterms as her 2028 decision looms

Bill Barrow, The Associated Press 7 minute read Updated: 7:41 AM CDT

As Kamala Harris mulls whether to run for president again, she's throwing herself into the midterms by campaigning with fellow Democrats, starting with a Tuesday trip to Michigan on behalf of Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.

It’s an especially notable destination for the former vice president. Michigan was one of seven battlegrounds she lost to Donald Trump two years ago, and it's now one of six states that will start Democrats' next presidential nominating process. Harris has additional rallies scheduled in Nevada and Georgia, two other key places on the political map.

Her campaigning could serve to solidify or undermine her status as a potential Democratic front-runner. Although she's one of the nation's best-known politicians and a barrier-breaking figure, there are others eager to turn the page after she failed to defeat Trump when she replaced President Joe Biden on the top of the ticket.

“I think she’s run her course,” said Barry Goodman, a Democratic National Committee member from Michigan who raised money for Biden and then Harris. “I just don’t think her running again would be the right thing for America moving forward.”

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Pope Leo XIV delivers the Angelus noon prayer in St. Peter' s Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope will retrace his missionary footsteps in Peru and finally visit Argentina in November

Nicole Winfield, Isabel Debre And Franklin Briceño, The Associated Press 5 minute read Preview

Pope will retrace his missionary footsteps in Peru and finally visit Argentina in November

Nicole Winfield, Isabel Debre And Franklin Briceño, The Associated Press 5 minute read Updated: 10:21 AM CDT

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV will retrace his steps as a missionary priest when he returns to Peru in November in his longest trip to date that will also take him to Uruguay and Argentina, where his Argentine predecessor Pope Francis never returned.

The Vatican on Monday published the detailed itinerary for Leo’s first visit to Latin America as pope. The Nov. 6-17 trip will be a homecoming for the U.S.-born pontiff who also has Peruvian citizenship and spent two decades there as a priest and bishop.

As he showed during his four-nation Africa trip in April, the 71-year-old Leo has no qualms about covering vast distances and working late into the night when he’s on the road. In all, he’ll clock just over 31,000 kilometers (19,000 miles) of flight time during the trip, nearly double the 17,000 km (10,000 miles) he traveled in Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea.

The visit begins in Uruguay, whose secular identity is so deeply rooted that Christmas is officially Family Day and Holy Week is Tourism Week. His itinerary includes a stop at a parish in Casavalle, a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of the capital plagued by drug trafficking and gang violence.

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