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Lahaina residents brace for what they’ll find as …

FILE - Sydney Carney walks through her home, which was destroyed by a wildfire on Aug. 11, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. Lahaina residents are grappling with a range of feelings as Maui authorities plan to begin allowing them back into what has become known as the "burn zone." (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

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Auto workers still have room to expand their strike against …

A UAW Local 2402 member waves a picket sign outside the General Motors Customer Care and Aftersales facility in Brandon, Miss., Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. The unionized workers joined others Friday in new nationwide walkouts as the labor standoff continues. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

3 shot and killed in targeted attack in Atlanta, police …

A Black student was suspended for his hairstyle. Now his …

Darryl George, a 17-year-old junior, before walking across the street to go into Barbers Hill High School after serving a 5-day in-school suspension for not cutting his hair Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, in Mont Belvieu. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

Many states are expanding their Medicaid programs to provide …

Cindy Clemons, center, receives dental care from Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry third-year student Onyeka Oguagha, left, and oral surgery resident Matthew Moore, right, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. Clemons was able to receive treatment after an expansion of the state's Medicaid program. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

A Venezuelan man and his pet squirrel made it to the US …

In this image taken from video, Niko, a pet squirrel, is fed by his owner, Yeison, in their tent at a migrant camp, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023 in Matamoros, Mexico. Yeison, who declined to give his last name because he fears for his family’s safety in Venezuela, traveled with Niko thousands of miles to the border with the United States. But Yeison and Niko may be separated if he is granted entrance to the U.S. (AP Photo/Valerie Gonzalez)

Tropical Storm Ophelia off the mid-Atlantic coast producing …

Scott Bierman, a water taxi driver in Annapolis, Md., said the water taxi service in Maryland's capital city was shutting down at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22, 2022 due to an intensifying weather system off the mid-Atlantic coast, and the decision has already been made for water taxi service to be closed on Saturday. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)

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California bishop acquitted in first United Methodist …

In this photo provided by UM News, United Methodist Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño, center, talks with counsel, the Rev. Scott Campbell, left, and Judge Jon Gray during her church trial on Sept. 19, 2023, in Glenview, Ill. A United Methodist Church court acquitted Carcaño, Friday, Sept. 22, of all charges in the first trial of one of church’s bishops in nearly a century. Carcaño, the first Latina bishop in the denomination and a prominent voice on behalf of immigrants, faced four charges of violating church law. (Paul Jeffrey/UM News via AP)

Ex-FBI agent pleads guilty to concealing $225K loan …

FILE - Charles McGonigal, former special agent in charge of the FBI's counterintelligence division in New York, arrives at Manhattan federal court in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. McGonigal pleaded guilty Friday, Sept. 22, to concealment of material facts, which carries a maximum prison sentence of five years. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 16. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

RSV vaccine recommended during pregnancy as a second …

FILE - This photo provided by Pfizer in August 2023 shows their RSV vaccine Abrysvo. On Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, U.S. health officials are recommending RSV vaccinations for moms-to-be as a second option to protect newborns. (Pfizer via AP, File)

Hawaii economists say Lahaina locals could be priced …

FILE - Wildfire wreckage is shown on Aug. 11, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. When the town of Lahaina, which was leveled by wildfire in August, is rebuilt, local residents who survived the conflagration might not be able to afford to live there, leading economists warned on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

US education chief considers new ways to discourage …

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office at the Department of Education, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023 in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

3rd Republican presidential debate is set for Nov. …

FILE - Republican presidential candidates, from left, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Vice President Mike Pence, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum stand on stage before a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by FOX News Channel Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Hollis Watkins, who was jailed multiple times for …

FILE - Hollis Watkins, national chairman of the Mississippi Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary conference, speaks at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, June 25, 2014. Watkins was a longtime civil rights activist who was 82 when he died Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, at his home in Clinton, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)