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A veterinarian who refused to return a dog to a homeless man after finding the ailing pit bull mix tied to a truck was convicted of theft Friday in western Michigan.Amanda Hergenreder took the dog on a two-hour drive to her clinic, where she cleared up a severe urinary tract infection and removed a rotten tooth last November. She named him Biggby, after a nearby coffee shop, and said the 16-year-old dog was thriving while living with her.But prosecutors filed a misdemeanor larceny charge after Hergenreder refused to bring the dog back to Chris Hamilton, a Grand Rapids man who…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Some call it a useless bureaucracy. Others praise it as a key tool of humanitarian aid, peacemaking and global diplomacy.Whatever their core beliefs, nearly every national leader agrees the United Nations is a valuable stage to make their case before the world. And it’s a stage no one enters in anything but their finest clothes, a fact on vivid display at the U.N. General Assembly in New York this week.For many diplomats and national officials, the General Assembly to provided an opportunity to show off clothing with not just elegant cuts and fabrics, but a symbolic…

Cristiano Ronaldo hit the target to help Al Nassr down reigning champions Al Ittihad and open up a three-point gap at the top of the Saudi Pro League.Both sides came into the game with perfect records after three matches, but it was Ronaldo and company who stretched their 100 percent run into a fourth as they left King Abdullah Sports City with a 2-0 win.Former Liverpool and Bayern Munich forward Sadio Mané opened the scoring in the ninth minute, hanging back in space at the far post and hammering home a volley after a tidy run and cross from Kingsley…

Sep 26, 2025, 02:05 PM ETLuis Enrique said he is not concerned by Paris Saint-Germain’s growing injury list after Marquinhos was sidelined with a left thigh issue.Captain Marquinhos scored an own goal in Monday’s 1-0 loss to rivals Marseille and even though he finished the contest, the Brazil defender reported discomfort post-match and is set to be ruled out until after the October international break.Marquinhos joins Ballon d’Or winner Ousmane Dembélé, Désiré Doué and João Neves on the treatment table. Champions League winners PSG played more than 60 times in the 2024-25 campaign, including seven matches in the summer Club…

This article, originally published by Pacific Forum, is republished with permission. If one wonders why North Korea is withholding engagement with Washington and Seoul, the optics of Beijing’s Victory Day military parade may hold the answer. Surrounded by Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and more than two dozen leaders from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, Kim Jong Un appeared not as an isolated outlier but as a peer in a shifting world order. His front-row presence signaled a decisive break from North Korea’s decades-long pursuit of US recognition and the start of a calculated gamble on a post-Western order. Kim now…

Sinclair and Nexstar are returning “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” to ABC affiliate broadcast stations beginning Friday, the companies said in separate statements.The announcements come three days after Disney’s ABC broadcast network returned the late night program to its air after a nearly week-long suspension. Disney had temporarily suspended the late night show following comments Kimmel made about the alleged murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement.”Our objective throughout this process has been to ensure that programming remains accurate and engaging for the widest possible audience. We take seriously our responsibility as local broadcasters to provide programming…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Friday that he has ordered the declassification and public release of all government records about aviator Amelia Earhart, noting that her disappearance in 1937 as she attempted to fly around the world has “captivated millions.”Trump called her fate an “interesting story” and said people have been asking him about declassifying and making public everything the government has on her. Trump returned to office earlier this year promising to declassify and release government records on several high-profile figures, though Earhart’s was not among the names mentioned. The Republican president’s administration since has released thousands…

Alex Potemkin | E+ | Getty ImagesMore than 74,000 federal student loan borrowers are stuck in a backlog of applications for a popular student loan forgiveness program.That program, called Public Service Loan Forgiveness Buyback, allows borrowers pursuing PSLF to get their debt wiped away sooner than they might have expected. Signed into law in 2007 by President George W. Bush, PSLF offers debt cancellation to those who’ve spent a decade working for certain not-for-profits or the government.As of Aug. 31, there’s a 74,510-person backlog of borrowers waiting to have the U.S. Department of Education process their buyback applications, according to…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a combative speech to a nearly empty UN General Assembly hall on Friday, where he portrayed himself as the standard-bearer of mainstream Israel in rejecting the creation of a Palestinian state and denouncing Israel’s genocide in Gaza as “a joke”. Netanyahu criticised countries that recognised a Palestinian state at the UN this week, and said his position is unfairly portrayed in the western media.  “It’s not the prime minister who himself is extreme or… held hostage by extreme parties to his right, it’s over 90 percent of Israelis,” Netanyahu said.  “My opposition to a Palestinian…

More and more teens are interacting with chatbots like Open AI’s ChatGPT, Character.AI and Meta AI.A majority, 72% of teens ages 13 to 17 have used AI companions at least once, according to a July 2025 report by nonprofit Common Sense Media. More than half, 52% interact with the platforms at least a few times a month, and 13% are daily users.While teen use of chatbots can be fairly benign — 46% say they use them as a tool or program — for some, the reliance and relationship can go much deeper, sometimes to tragic ends.Last week, parents of teens…