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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — No species lasts forever — extinction is part of the evolution of life. But at least five times, a biological…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — No species lasts forever — extinction is part of the evolution of life. But at least five times, a biological…
Continue ReadingBy Anna Chernova, Richard Quest, Anna Gorzkowska, Julia Puckette and Jessie Gretener, CNN (CNN) — Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was…
Continue ReadingBy Nic F. Anderson and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — Newly released footage from law enforcement in Maine shows officials were aware of…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press The list of sports teams seeking new or improved stadiums is getting longer and longer. In the past year alone,…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Proposals for new and improved sports stadiums are proliferating across the U.S. and could come with a hefty price…
Continue ReadingBy Abeer Salman and Kareem Khadder, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli soldiers raiding a hospital in northern Gaza desecrated the bodies…
Continue ReadingBy GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Legislatures returning to session in states across the U.S. early in 2024 will consider condemning the Oct. 7…
Continue ReadingBy FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press ACOLMAN, Mexico (AP) — María de Lourdes Ortiz Zacarías swiftly cuts hundreds of strips of newsprint and…
Continue ReadingBy Svitlana Vlasova and Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — Children in Ukraine have wishes beyond just toys this holiday season, as Russia…
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — While reindeer are famous for pulling Santa’s sleigh, it’s their vision that really sets…
Continue ReadingBy KRISTEN GELINEAU, EDNA TARIGAN and REZA SAIFULLAH Associated Press PIDIE, Indonesia (AP) — The screams were heard soon after the ailing boat…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — The Cuban government says it will have to either increase prices for fuel and electricity, or…
Continue ReadingBy KRISTEN GELINEAU, EDNA TARIGAN and REZA SAIFULLAH Associated Press PIDIE, Indonesia (AP) — Their screams and sobs could be heard from the ailing…
Continue ReadingBy Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — The family of a woman who was shot and killed by a responding deputy after calling for help in a domestic…
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press A Washington state law aimed at improving police accountability is in the spotlight after Tacoma three officers were…
Continue ReadingBAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Malian authorities say the West African nation has recalled its ambassador in Algeria after accusing it of interference in its…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Charlie Sheen’s neighbor was arrested after being accused of assaulting the actor in a Malibu, California, home this week,…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — Two Denver-area paramedics were convicted Friday in the 2019 killing of…
Continue ReadingBy Emma Tucker and Jeremy Harlan, CNN (CNN) — Two paramedics were found guilty of criminally negligent homicide Friday in the death of Elijah…
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A report by a city oversight agency has found that inmates at New York City’s Rikers Island…
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A jury on Friday found a homeless man not guilty in the beating with a metal pipe of a former San Francisco businessman, an…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco; Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press”…
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — A Seattle hospital filed a petition this month against the Texas Attorney General’s Office in an effort to…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — When 43-year-old Ernseau Admettre left Haiti and headed north with his young family in tow, very…
Continue ReadingBy Nick Valencia and Alta Spells, CNN (CNN) — The Board of Aldermen of a Mississippi town voted nearly unanimously Thursday to reinstate…
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Police bodycam footage shows a North Dakota lawmaker making homophobic and anti-migrant remarks…
Continue ReadingROY, Utah (AP) — A Utah man who served two years in prison breaking a child’s arm seven years ago was charged Friday with killing a…
Continue ReadingLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has called for the immediate resignation of Board of Corrections Chairman Benny…
Continue ReadingBy JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The new NBC sitcom “Extended Family” is loosely based on the real-life family dynamics between…
Continue ReadingBy ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer The NFL has denied Eagles security chief Dom DiSandro’s appeal of a $100,000 fine in addition to banning him…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden joined first lady Jill Biden, for a Christmas season visit to Children’s National…
Continue ReadingBy RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — Delaware’s largest hospital system will pay more than $47 million to settle whistleblower…
Continue ReadingBy TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s anti-corruption commission has charged the country’s former tourism minister and…
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press SHAMONG, N.J. (AP) — New details are emerging about the fatal crash of a Philadelphia TV news helicopter earlier…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court has overturned Republican-drawn legislative…
Continue ReadingBy SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — One person is still missing a week after residents were scattered when St. Louis’…
Continue ReadingELKHART, Ind. (AP) — Attorneys for a mentally disabled man who was wrongfully convicted in the slaying of a 94-year-old woman say he has reached an…
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s statistics agency says more Brazilians declared themselves as being…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Drugmaker Bristol Myers Squibb is acquiring Karuna Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company that has developed a new…
Continue ReadingWINNEMUCCA, Nev. (AP) — U.S. land managers are planning to round up more than 2,800 wild horses across four Nevada counties beginning next week.…
Continue ReadingBy MARCO DiMARCO Associated Press GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Residents of the small fishing town in Iceland where a volcano erupted this week have…
Continue ReadingThe federal government on Friday reopened railroad crossings in two Texas border towns, five days after the shuttering of rail operations there…
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says it will not immediately take up a plea by special counsel Jack Smith to…
Continue ReadingGLENVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A tractor-trailer loaded with natural gas containers slammed into the bottom of an overhead railroad bridge in upstate New…
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A conservative-led Missouri school board has voted to drop elective courses on Black…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A lawsuit by a Seattle hospital says Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked for records…
Continue ReadingCAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A British sea trade monitoring agency says another boat has been hijacked near the coast of Somalia. That and the…
Continue ReadingBy RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Florida State has sued the Atlantic Coast Conference, challenging a contract that binds the school to…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Sudan’s former leader, Omar al-Bashir. Personal Birth date: January 1, 1944…
Continue ReadingBy Xiaofei Xu and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Maalim Ayman, a senior leader of the Al-Shabaab militant group operating in Somalia and Kenya,…
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump says he is eager to debate President Joe Biden, even if the debates…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, who succeeded his half brother King…
Continue ReadingStacker describes the events after the Emancipation Proclamation leading to the full abolition of slavery, using records, academic commentary, and…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Look for flu and COVID-19 infections to ramp up in the coming weeks, U.S. health officials say,…
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Police in Maine feared that confronting an Army reservist prior to the worst mass…
Continue ReadingBy LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s parliament has voted to lift the legal immunity of former Prime Minister Sali…
Continue ReadingBy GISELA SALOMON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A former Colombian soldier has pleaded guilty to conspiring in the 2021 assassination of Haitian…
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — In an extraordinary pushback against Pope Francis, some Catholic bishops in Africa,…
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece is planning to offer exclusive guided tours of the ancient Acropolis, its most powerful tourist magnet, to handfuls of…
Continue ReadingBy KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Officials say a 24-year-old student owned eight guns when he opened fire at a university building…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An influential policing think tank is pushing law enforcement agencies to change how they…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Even at age 80, Michael Mann has lost little of his velocity. “Ferrari” is Mann’s first film…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French authorities have grounded a flight carrying 303 Indian passengers on suspicions it could be carrying victims of human…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The Department of Transportation is investigating possible deceptive practices in airline loyalty programs after federal lawmakers…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The elusive artist Banksy displayed his latest work on a London street corner and it was taken less than hour after he confirmed its…
Continue ReadingTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Former NFL player Mike Williams died from a rare form of sepsis related to dental health problems, according to a medical…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has scheduled a vote after many delays on a watered-down…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says he is willing to help with a crush of migrants that led to the closure of border crossings with…
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press DERRY, N.H. (AP) — A judge has fined the New Hampshire publisher of a weekly community newspaper $620 after…
Continue ReadingBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Romanian court on Friday rejected a request by the divisive influencer Andrew Tate to temporarily leave the country to…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Science is revolutionizing our understanding of the past. Paleogenetics teases out astonishing secrets from DNA…
Continue ReadingBy JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it has seized “thousands of units” of counterfeit Ozempic, the…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Police say they’ve launched a criminal investigation into the alleged abduction of British teenager Alex Batty who was missing…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include the return of “Night Court” and the release of an early K-pop…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Donald Trump pressured two elections officials not to certify 2020 vote totals in a key Michigan county. That’s…
Continue ReadingGENEVA (AP) — The U.N. health agency says it has tallied a tenfold increase in the global count of reported cases of dengue over the last…
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — France has completed the withdrawal of its troops from Niger after they were asked to leave…
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities in southern Greece have rescued 81 people stranded on a ship south of the mainland, on a route frequently used to…
Continue ReadingSTONINGTON, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut State Police dog has been killed in a shooting involving troopers and a man they say they were trying to…
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN and JENNIFER MCDERMOTT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration released its highly anticipated proposal for…
Continue ReadingBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Retailers are stepping up sales and other enticements in the final days before…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation fell last month in another sign that…
Continue ReadingRICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Police said one person was injured at a Richmond hospital when a man who had come into the hospital for a mental health…
Continue ReadingBy DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press The holidays, a time where families and friends can get together to talk, to laugh — or get into screaming…
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A congressional oversight committee has launched an investigation into the V-22 Osprey program…
Continue ReadingBy MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The current Israel-Hamas war is by far the deadliest and most destructive of the five wars…
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MLLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is pardoning thousands of people who were convicted of use and simple…
Continue ReadingBy MARIAM FAM Associated Press It’s normally a moment of pure joy for the Rev. Khader Khalilia: the excitement, the giggles, the kisses, as his…
Continue ReadingBy JIWONG SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean religious sect leader whose sex crimes were featured in the popular…
Continue ReadingBy RAHMA NURJANA Associated Press PADANG, Indonesia (AP) — Volcanic ash spewing from Indonesia’s Mount Marapi has shut down airports and…
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.N. atomic agency and outside experts say North Korea may have started operating a…
Continue ReadingBy ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The holiday travel rush hit its peak Friday as mild weather and lower flight cancelation…
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to sign a new executive order aimed at targeting…
Continue ReadingCNN By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Near Prague, Czech Republic (CNN) — Prague was in shock and mourning Friday after a gunman killed 14 people and…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Nicholls, CNN London (CNN) — Alex Batty, a British boy who was found in France after going missing for six years, says it feels…
Continue ReadingBy WILL GRAVES AP National Writer There were jitters, of course. Considering all that happened, how could there not be? When Simone Biles walked onto…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — India has invited French President Emmanuel Macron to be the chief guest at the country’s national day celebrations next month.…
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Inhale, exhale. It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but it’s also a time when holiday stress may…
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered in a surprise ruling the release of former Prime Minister…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — American electric automaker Tesla’s plans to produce energy-storage batteries in China are moving forward with a signing ceremony…
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