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Opioid makers Allergan and Teva have agreed to pay $54 million in cash and overdose reversal drugs to settle a federal lawsuit brought by San Francisco alleging the drug industry fueled an overdose and addiction surge that created a public nuisance. City Attorney David Chiu made the...

Poland and Israel have taken a step toward normalizing diplomatic ties, the Polish president said Tuesday, as the Israeli ambassador officially presented his credentials in Warsaw. President Andrzej Duda tweeted that he and Israeli President Issac Herzog have “agreed that it's time to return to...

Premier Mario Draghi insisted Tuesday his government was able to keep working despite tensions with the 5-Star Movement, but he warned that it can’t function if coalition members make ultimatums. Draghi briefed reporters after meeting with unions on the government’s latest efforts to mitigate...

A 14-year-old accused of raping a woman who was walking to work in Hollywood appeared in Broward County court for a hearing Tuesday, as prosecutors decide whether he will be tried as an adult. After his arrest in mid-June, police said Terry Berger Smith may be connected to other similar crimes...

Deputies arrested a Florida Keys man Monday, accusing him of falsely claiming to be a New York state trooper in an ill-fated effort to get his ex-girlfriend arrested. According to a Monroe County Sheriff’s Office news release, the case began in March, when 36-year-old Claude Francis Tristram of...

A BBC investigation alleged Tuesday that British special forces killed dozens of detainees in suspicious circumstances during counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan a decade ago. Citing newly obtained military documents, the broadcaster alleged that one SAS unit may have unlawfully killed...

Parents and students returned to the Lubavitch Educational Center in Miami Gardens Tuesday morning, a day after a 3-year-old boy was found unresponsive inside of a hot car. “I don’t know them very well, but it’s sad for everyone,” one parent said after dropping off their child Tuesday...

The toll of drug-resistant “superbug” infections worsened during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. health officials said Tuesday. After years of decline, 2020 ushered in a 15% increase in hospital infections and deaths caused by some of the most worrisome bacterial infections...

Jumana Zakir knows who she is going to be for Halloween this year. Hint: Her new favorite superhero is a lot like her – female, teen, Muslim, American and “totally awesome.” “Kamala Khan is me,” said the exuberant 13-year-old from Anaheim, California. “She is just like me.” Khan is the Marvel...

NASA on Tuesday unveiled a new batch of images from its new powerful space telescope, including a foamy blue and orange shot of a dying star. The first image from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope was released Monday at the White House — a jumble of distant galaxies that went deeper...

Ilona Khomenko was widowed nearly two months ago when her husband died in fighting in Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine. Now, she's looking to make a difference on the battlefield. Khomenko is helping to train soldiers and civilians in combat first aid to help save lives as Russia's war in...

In calculations designed to help nations hurt by climate change get compensation for decades of carbon pollution from rich, high-emitting nations, researchers have calculated just how much losses and benefits each country has caused to others. The new figures quantify what scientists, officials...

Surveillance video from the Robb Elementary School hallway where police waited as a gunman opened fire in a fourth-grade classroom will be shown this weekend to residents of Uvalde, a Texas lawmaker leading an investigation into the massacre of 21 people said Tuesday. The 77-minute video, which...

New York researchers transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people over the last month, the latest in a string of developments in the long quest to one day save human lives with animal organs. The experiments announced Tuesday come after a historic but failed attempt earlier this year to...

Relatively low-key commemorations are taking place in Angola to mark the death of former longtime President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who died last week in Spain where his family is taking steps to prevent his body from being returned to the southern African country. As part of five days of...

Detectives with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Homicide Cold Case Unit are asking for the public’s help identifying a woman who was found dead in a canal in southern Palm Beach County in 1980. On Tuesday, detectives released a reconstruction image representing the victim’s appearance at...

The Pentagon said Tuesday that it killed a leader of the Islamic State group in Syria in a drone strike. U.S. Central Command said in a news release that Maher al-Agal was killed Tuesday and an unidentified senior official in the Islamic State group was seriously injured. The Pentagon said...

Peloton will stop making its own interactive stationary bikes and treadmills, outsourcing those duties to a Taiwanese manufacturer as it attempts to revive sales that surged during the pandemic. The New York City company, which recorded its only profitable quarters during the pandemic, is...

Fort Lauderdale police announced Tuesday that investigators are seeking to identify a woman accused of stealing more than $52,000 worth of items, including a $40,000 Rolex watch, from a man she met at a bar in June. According to a police report, the victim met the woman at the American Social...

The Biden administration is calling on people to exercise renewed caution about COVID-19, emphasizing the importance of getting booster shots for those who are eligible and wearing masks indoors as two new highly transmissible variants are spreading rapidly across the country. The new variants...