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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- Taylor Swift couldn't just shake off another chance to watch Travis Kelce on the football field.

DETROIT (AP) -- The United Auto Workers union expanded strikes against Detroit automakers Friday, ordering 7,000 more workers to walk off the job in Illinois and Michigan to put more pressure on the companies to improve their offers.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- As Monette Ferguson braces for the looming government shutdown to strip funding from her Head Start program for disadvantaged children in Connecticut, she harkens back to a decade ago when another congressional budget fight forced her to close preschools.

ST. CLAIR, Mo. (AP) -- A Missouri high school teacher says she has been placed on leave after officials discovered that she was performing on a pornography website to supplement her salary.

CVS found the right prescription on Wednesday to keep its stores open in the Kansas City area and avoid a repeat of a work stoppage last week by pharmacists: It promised to boost hiring to ease workloads that sometimes make it hard to take a bathroom break.

DETROIT (AP) -- The United Auto Workers union says it will announce on Friday how it plans to expand its strike against Detroit's three automakers.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A Montana law banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors is temporarily blocked, a state judge ruled Wednesday, just four days before it was to take effect.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri's Republican attorney general on Tuesday sued a school district for allegedly secretly discussing transgender students' bathroom access, in violation of the state's open-meeting law.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Taylor Swift's trip to watch the Kansas City Chiefs' Travis Kelce play football on Sunday didn't just have the internet talking nonstop. Following the 12-time Grammy Award winner's appearance at Arrowhead Stadium, jersey sales for the All-Pro tight-end seemingly skyrocketed.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Police are investigating the death of former NFL player Mike Williams in Tampa after getting information that he may have received unprescribed drugs from someone while hospitalized after a construction site accident.

Kansas City Star. September 20, 2023.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- When former President Donald Trump visits Detroit on Wednesday, he'll be looking to blunt criticisms from a United Auto Workers union leadership that has said a second term for him would be a "disaster" for workers.

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) -- It's a Monday in September, but with schools closed, the three children in the Pruente household have nowhere to be. Callahan, 13, contorts herself into a backbend as 7-year-old Hudson fiddles with a balloon and 10-year-old Keegan plays the piano.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- A Missouri judge tossed Republican-written ballot summary language Monday that described several proposed constitutional amendments as allowing "dangerous and unregulated abortions until live birth."

NEW YORK (AP) -- Growing up in the Boston suburbs, Suzyn Waldman fell madly in love with two things: baseball and Broadway shows.

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Five conservative cardinals from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas have challenged Pope Francis to affirm Catholic teaching on homosexuality and female ordination ahead of a big Vatican meeting where such hot-button issues are up for debate.

CAIRO (AP) -- A huge fire broke out early Monday in a police headquarters in northeastern Egypt, injuring at least 38 people, the health ministry said.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Early voting began on Monday in New Zealand for the nation's Oct. 14 general election, with conservative contender Christopher Luxon casting his ballot.

TOKYO (AP) -- Business sentiment among big Japanese manufacturers improved in July-September for the second straight quarter, according to a central bank survey released Monday.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Opposition leader Donald Tusk told supporters that political "change for the better is inevitable" in Poland as he opened a massive march Sunday to try to boost his political coalition's chances of unseating the country's conservative government in an upcoming parliamentary election.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesian President Joko Widodo inaugurated Southeast Asia's first high-speed railway on Monday as it was set to begin commercial operations, a key project under China's Belt and Road infrastructure initiative that will drastically reduce the travel time between two key cities.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Late-night talk shows are returning after a five-month absence brought on by the Hollywood writers strike, while actors will begin talks that could end their own long work walk-off.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday selected Laphonza Butler, a Democratic strategist and adviser to Kamala Harris' 2020 presidential campaign, to fill the vacant U.S. Senate seat held by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- Taylor Swift couldn't just shake off another chance to watch Travis Kelce on the football field.

CIUDAD MADERO, Mexico (AP) -- The roof of a church collapsed in northern Mexico during a Mass on Sunday, killing at least nine people and injuring around 50, authorities said as searchers probed in the wreckage late into the night looking for survivors and other victims.

BANGKOK (AP) -- Asian shares were mostly higher in thin trading Monday with many markets closed for holidays.

SAN MIGUEL DE LOS JAGÜEYEZ, Mexico (AP) -- In the middle of a military base outside Mexico City, an army colonel runs what he calls a kindergarten for dogs.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans view college campuses as far friendlier to liberals than to conservatives when it comes to free speech, with adults across the political spectrum seeing less tolerance for those on the right, according to a new poll.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- An alternative mental health court program designed to fast-track people with untreated schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders into housing and medical care -- potentially without their consent -- kicked off in seven California counties, including San Francisco, on Monday.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- "How would you be different as speaker, compared to Mr. Boehner?" a reporter asked then-House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy in September 2015 as the California Republican pursued, and eventually gave up, his first attempt at the speakership.

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- A few years ago, Pope Francis told the head of the main Vatican-backed Catholic women's organization to be "brave" in pushing for change for women in the Catholic Church.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The justices are taking the bench at the Supreme Court for the first time since late June. Their new term is beginning Monday with ethics concerns swirling around the court.

DENVER (AP) -- When Kirsten Hawkes, a one-time elite fencer, reached out to her childhood coach for advice about starting her own fencing club, their meeting turned awkward right away.

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CIUDAD MADERO, Mexico (AP) -- Mexician officials say at least nine people are confirmed dead from the collapse of a church roof.