Salt Lake City is still cruising toward being named the 2034 Winter Olympics host next month
Noah and Kristen Dweck have seen a number of black bears around their home in Vermont but this was a first
Two advocacy groups have asked a judge to unseal court records and preserve public access to hearings in the class action lawsuit against the federal Bureau of Prisons over the sexual abuse of incarcerated women at a now-shuttered California prison
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A woman armed with a handgun has been taken into custody after an hourlong standoff at the FBI building in Seattle
A widespread power outage has hit Puerto Rico and left more than 340,000 customers without electricity after two of the U.S. territory’s power plants shut down
A summit meeting of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations has focused on migration on its second day, seeking ways to combat trafficking and increase investment in countries from where migrants start out on often life-threatening journeys
Greek authorities have closed down the Acropolis for much of the afternoon for a second day as the country swelters under unseasonably high temperatures
Wimbledon’s total prize money fund will rise to a record 50 million pounds, which is about $64 million
Tensions in Italy’s lower house over a government proposal that opponents says will further impoverish the poorer south erupted into a fist-fight that sent an opposition lawmaker to the hospital
Poland has reintroduced restrictions on movement along parts of the border with Belarus because of increased migration pressure that has involved violence against Polish security officials
Former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has invited his political opponents to hold talks on forming a new government
It was an emotional graduation ceremony for high school seniors in Newtown, Connecticut
The European Commission is asking three of the world’s biggest pornography sites to provide details of the measures they have taken to better protect minors from accessing their content and prevent gender-based violence
Russian officials say U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich, jailed in Russia for over a year on espionage charges, will stand trial in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg
The president of California State University, Los Angeles, says demonstrators protesting Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza are no longer welcome on campus after some of them occupied and trashed a building while she was inside
The Supreme Court has made it harder for the federal government to win court orders when it suspects a company of interfering in unionization campaigns in a case that stemmed from a labor dispute with Starbucks
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously to preserve access to mifepristone, the drug most commonly used in medication abortions
South African health authorities say two people have died this week after contracting mpox, and it appears there is local transmission of the disease
Twenty-three sets of twins have graduated from a Massachusetts middle school, making up about 10% of the eighth-grade class
There’s a new big-hitter in the world of soccer soothsayers and this one is going for a win for Germany to open the European Championship
Author-activist Naomi Klein has won the inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction with “Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World.”
The family of a bystander killed during a 2021 police chase in Minneapolis is suing the city and alleging that dangerous pursuits are more common in areas of the city with predominantly Black residents
Republican former Gov. Larry Hogan, one of former President Donald Trump’s fiercest critics in the GOP, has received Trump’s endorsement in his Maryland Senate bid
The United States has imposed a $1.8 million fine against Middle Eastern airline Emirates for flights that passed too low over Iraq, in violation of U.S. restrictions
Global offshore wind industry poised to miss big targets as obstacles mount
ECB's Nagel says Trump's tariffs may have minor impact on inflation
Airbnb urges Barcelona to reconsider crackdown on tourism rentals
Price hikes offer chance for Guinness rivals as Diageo pushes zero alcohol brew
China's Oct youth jobless rate drops to 17.1%, official data show
How 1,000 days of conflict fuelled robot wars between Russia and Ukraine
Late Quincy Jones, Bond film producers bestowed with honorary Oscars
Beyoncé will perform at halftime of Ravens-Texans Christmas Day game on Netflix