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VADODARA, India — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez inaugurated India’s first private military aircraft plant Monday, boosting New Delhi’s ambitions of growing local manufacturing in its defense and aerospace industries. Sanchez was welcomed to the country with a roadshow in Gujarat state’s Vadodara city where hundreds of people cheered…

Chris and Alex Tafone were smiling so wide you could see their teeth. It was December 2013, and Christopher had brought his son, then 5, to celebrate Christmas with Christopher’s identical twin cousins, John and Thomas Reistetter. Alex tugged on his father’s hand as the four posed for a photo. On Sunday, the Tafones posed…

Anthony Rizzo wasn’t making a plea or demand when it comes to fans bringing the noise and electricity Monday night at Yankee Stadium. Loud sellout crowds have been a part of each of the four home games the Yankees have played so far this postseason. It’s just, Rizzo said, the expected cacophonous throng packing the…

Israel unleashed a series of pre-dawn airstrikes against military sites in Iran on Saturday, saying it targeted facilities used to make the missiles fired at Israel and surface-to-air missile locations. The attack risks pushing the archenemies closer to all-out war at a time of spiraling violence across the Middle East, where militant groups backed by…

Buddy Krumenacker is in his 32nd season as Farmingdale’s head football coach, but he said he had never seen a performance like the one junior running back Josh Kama had Friday night. Senior quarterback Dennis Finkel had not witnessed a showing like Kama’s either. Even Kama himself, just minutes after host Farmingdale’s 63-42 win over…

SUPAI, Ariz. — The Havasupai Tribe is set to receive federal emergency aid to help repair damage caused by severe and deadly flooding this summer. President Joe Biden on Friday approved a disaster declaration for the Havasupai, whose reservation at the southwestern edge of Grand Canyon National Park is one of the most remote in…

CAIRO — A senior United Nations official on Friday called for more international attention to “the forgotten crisis” in Sudan, where more than a year and a half of war pushed the African country to the brink of famine. The appeal by Ted Chaiban, deputy head of the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF, came as the…

Daily Point Former gov, Trump adviser to discuss Italian values A boy from Queens and a girl from New Jersey, each with some knowledge of politics, will be talking about the presidential election Saturday as the headliners at a luncheon of the National Italian American Foundation in Washington, D.C. That would be Kellyanne Conway —…

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby is the 10th player in NHL history to record 1,600 regular-season points in a career. Crosby recorded the secondary assist on Bryan Rust’s power-play goal at 11:01 of the first period in Wednesday’s game against the Buffalo Sabres. The 37-year-old Crosby is the first player to reach the…

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Luke Foster hauled in a 19-yard pass from Grant Jordan for a go-ahead touchdown with 8:15 remaining and Yale held off Central Connecticut 23-22 on Saturday in the first meeting between the programs. The Yale defense held strong in the fourth. Trailing 22-17, the Bulldogs’ Joshua Tarver intercepted a pass in…