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CINCINNATI (AP) — Democratic House candidate Greg Landsman can tick off how his party’s control of Congress and the White House has benefited his city.

The bipartisan infrastructure deal will mean upgrades to the heavily traveled highway bridge linking Cincinnati with its airport and northern Kentucky while bolstering a vital westside viaduct. COVID-19 relief funding meant training for more new police academy recruits. A sprawling spending package capped insulin prices.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government imposed sanctions Monday on a Bosnian state prosecutor who is accused of being complicit in corruption and undermining democratic processes in the Western Balkans.

The Treasury Department said its Office of Foreign Assets Control designated sanctions against state prosecutor Diana Kajmakovic, whom the agency calls a “brazenly corrupt state prosecutor with links to criminal organizations.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell in midday trading on Wall Street Monday and put major indexes deeper into a slump as recession fears grow.

The S&P 500 fell 0.3% as of 11:56 a.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 141 points, or 0.5%, to 29,585. The tech-heavy Nasdaq rose 0.2%.

The British pound dropped to an all-time low against the dollar and investors continued to dump British government bonds in displeasure over a sweeping tax cut plan announced in London last week.

PHOENIX (AP) — Long before he assembled one of the largest far-right anti-government militia groups in U.S. history, before his Oath Keepers stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Stewart Rhodes was a promising Yale Law School graduate.

He secured a clerkship on the Arizona Supreme Court, in part thanks to his unusual life story: a stint as an Army paratrooper cut short by a training accident, followed by marriage, college and an Ivy League law degree.

NEW YORK, Sep 25 (APP): The Azad Kashmir President, Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry, has urged United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to appoint a special envoy in a decisive move to resolve the decades-old Kashmir dispute on the basis of UN Security Council resolutions that pledged the right of self-determination to the Kashmiri people.

NEW YORK, September 25. /TASS/: SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 carrier rocket on Saturday to bring 52 Starlink satellites into orbit, the American company said in a statement.

"Deployment of 52 Starlink satellites confirmed," the company said.

Earlier the company tweeted that Falcon 9's first stage has landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship in the Atlantic Ocean. The launch took place from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral (Florida).

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 25 (NNN-KPL) – Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Saleumxay Kommasith, yesterday, called for practical solutions to today’s global problems, through multilateralism, at the General Debate of the UN General Assembly.

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 25 (NNN-XINHUA) – Uzbek Foreign Minister, Vladimir Norov, yesterday, stressed the need to strengthen the central role of the United Nations in tackling global and regional challenges.

The world today is facing a deep crisis of trust at the global level, an intensification of numerous challenges to stability and security, growth of geopolitical confrontation, and an increase of risks of bloc mentality, he told the General Debate of the UN General Assembly.

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 25 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal al-Mekdad and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov reaffirmed the strategic and historical relations between the two countries, and also expressed the willingness to carry them out in a great number of fields.

In a meeting held at the 77th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), Lavrov and Al-Mekdad discussed issues of common interest and various regional and international developments, official reports said.

WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - The United States would respond decisively to any Russian use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine and has spelled out to Moscow the "catastrophic consequences" it would face, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday.

Sullivan's remarks represented the latest American warning following the thinly veiled nuclear threat made by Vladimir Putin last Wednesday in a speech in which the Russian president also announced his country's first wartime military mobilization since World War Two.