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Nine NATO nations on the alliance's eastern flank held talks Friday in Romania ahead of a key NATO summit later this month, with some leaders urging NATO to step up protections for them in light of Russia's protracted war against Ukraine. Friday's summit in Bucharest provided a platform for...

Angered by the unrelenting toll from gun violence, tens of thousands of people are expected at rallies this weekend in the nation’s capital and around the United States demanding that Congress pass meaningful changes to gun laws. The second March For Our Lives rally will take place Saturday in...

A woman accused of intentionally providing wrong information in the search for a missing man in Grand Teton National Park has been banned from the park and ordered to pay restitution. Heather Mycoskie, 40, must stay out of the park in northeastern Wyoming for five years and pay $17,600 under a...

Authorities say a man who tried to enter an Alabama elementary school where a summer program was being held was shot to death by police. Gadsden’s school superintendent says a man went to several doors trying to enter Walnut Park Elementary School on Thursday while a summer literacy program for...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is set to appear before a group of conservative Jewish leaders in New York City, despite efforts by gay rights advocates to get the event canceled. LGBTQ groups still raw over the “Don’t Say Gay” law DeSantis championed in his home state are vowing to protest the...

Donald Trump was told the same thing over and over, by his campaign team, the data crunchers, and a steady stream of lawyers, investigators and inner-circle allies: There was no voting fraud that could have tipped the 2020 presidential election. But in the eight weeks after losing to Joe Biden...

The U.S. government is buying more monkeypox vaccine as a surprising international outbreak continues to grow, health officials said Friday. As of Friday, the U.S. had identified 45 cases in 15 states and the District of Columbia. More than 1,300 cases have been found in about 30 other...

Police say a man found dead in a Florida lake while searching for Frisbees and other flying discs was missing three limbs after a likely encounter with alligators. Largo Police Department spokeswoman Megan Santo said in an email Friday that the medical examiner’s final report on the death of...

A new documentary about Rudy Giuliani premiering at the Tribeca Festival weaves in musical performances to give the ups and downs of the man once commonly referred to as “America’s Mayor” an operatic flavor. “Rudy! A Documusical," directed by Jed Rothstein, is in large part a sober...

British health officials said they cannot tell if the spread of monkeypox has peaked in the country as they announced another 45 cases Friday, bringing the total in the disease's biggest-ever outbreak beyond Africa to 366 cases. Britain’s Health Security Agency said 99% of the total cases were...

President Joe Biden's administration has scrapped former President Donald Trump's red, white and blue design for the new generation of presidential aircraft after an Air Force review suggested it would raise costs and delay the delivery of the new jets. Boeing is currently modifying two Boeing...

Police are looking for the woman who they believe handed off a 9-month-old baby at a Chinese restaurant in Sweetwater on Thursday afternoon after stealing a car with the child inside. “What I can tell you is that this person is facing some serious charges including grand theft auto and false...

The world's ocean freight shipping companies recently called on international maritime authorities to exclude pollution that their vessels spew in bad weather from new regulations, a condition that would apply almost a third of the time in the Atlantic. But the effort failed Friday. Under...

When Raevahnna Richardson spotted a woman standing outside a library in Salem, Oregon, gathering signatures for a gun-safety initiative, she made a beeline to her and added her name. “I signed it to keep our kids safe, because something needs to change. I have a kid that’s going to be in first...

Divers visiting the ancient seaport of Caesarea on Israel’s Mediterranean coast occasionally find treasure, but on Friday they searched for trash. Twenty six scuba-diving volunteers removed around 45 kilograms (100 pounds) of garbage from between the sunken pillars and submerged ruins of the...

A federal appeals court has halted enforcement of a district judge’s order for Louisiana to redraw new congressional districts by June 20 to include a second majority Black district. A panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals acted Thursday night, hours after U.S. District Judge Shelly...

An around-the-clock effort of killing mosquitoes that could potentially spread diseases, not to mention cause those annoying itchy bites, is on at Broward County Mosquito Control. They’re gearing up to spray the area with the larvacide chemicals that will go through special trucks. BCMC showed...

South Florida’s Republican leaders are saying they fear a source of conservative voices could be lost with the impending sale of Radio Mambí. “We have to make sure that there are always voices. That there is the opportunity always exists for voices that have a contrary point of view and a...

A senior Ethiopian official says his country is interested in resuming talks with Egypt and Sudan on a huge and controversial Blue Nile dam that will be Africa’s largest hydroelectric power plant. The comment by Sileshi Bekele, Ethiopia’s former negotiator on the dam and now the country’s...

Since the late 1990s, El Salvador has had a complete ban on abortion including in cases of rape, incest, fetal malformation or danger to a pregnant woman’s life. Not only planned abortions but also miscarriages, stillbirths and other pregnancy complications can sometimes result in prosecution...