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Ray Alvarez, owner of Ray's Candy Store, was outside his legendary business on Avenue A early Tuesday morning when his attacker came up with a package around 3 a.m....

One person died and others were blinded after using eye drops tainted with a rare strain of bacteria that has become resistant to most antibiotics, the CDC announced Tuesday....

A continuing winter storm has forced the cancellation of hundreds more airline flights in Texas, although not as many as in previous days...

He gets most of the PR, at least nationally, but Punxsutawney Phil isn't the only groundhog to purport to predict the weather...

The funeral of Tyre Nichols had all the hallmarks of what's known as a homegoing service in Black American communities: comforting gospel hymns, remembrances from loved ones and a stirring eulogy from a clergyman...

President Joe Biden's top economic adviser, Brian Deese, is leaving his post...

Two men who began their careers on factory floors are competing to lead the 373,000 members of the United Auto Workers, a union that helps set standards for wages across the nation's manufacturing sector...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet with France's president amid one of the deadliest periods of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in years...

President Joe Biden is playing host to former President Bill Clinton to mark the 30th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act...

A man injured an officer as he resisted arrest during a traffic stop on Long Island on Wednesday afternoon, Nassau County Police said....

The 15-year-old victim was walking at E. 172nd Street and Rosedale Avenue in the Soundview section around 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 22 when he was assaulted....

A whale that washed ashore in Hawaii over the weekend likely died in part because it ate large volumes of fishing traps, fishing nets, plastic bags and other marine debris...

President Joe Biden attended the annual National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday in Washington and delivered a message of unity...

Ayahuasca is a psychedelic tea whose roots go back hundreds of years to ceremonial use by Indigenous groups in the Amazon rainforest...

Embattled Indian billionaire Gautam Adani's flagship company says it is reviewing its fundraising options after calling off a $2.5 billion share offering that was seen as a crucial test of investor confidence...

A protracted legal fight over how city council districts were drawn in Jacksonville, Florida, reflects an aspect of redistricting that often remains in the shadows...

A furry critter in a western Pennsylvania town has predicted six more weeks of winter during an annual Groundhog Day celebration...

The Bank of England has raised interest rates by half a percentage point as it sought to tame double-digit inflation that is fueling a cost-of-living crisis, public-sector strikes and fears of recession...

The U.K. energy regulator is investigating revelations that debt collectors working for British Gas broke into customers' homes to install prepay gas meters that left vulnerable people at risk of having their heat cut off...

A former "Dances With Wolves" actor who faces at least five felonies for allegedly sexually abusing Indigenous girls is scheduled to face a judge...

The European Parliament has removed the protective immunity of two lawmakers linked to one of the EU's biggest corruption scandals...

Senior members of the European Union's executive branch are in Ukraine looking to boost relations with the war-torn country and pave the way for it to one day join the bloc...

The European Central Bank is set to go big again, with another half-point interest rate increase...

Embattled Indian billionaire Gautam Adani's flagship company says it is reviewing its fundraising options after calling off a $2.5 billion share offering that was seen as a crucial test of investor confidence...

An Austrian court has convicted four men of terrorist offenses and participation in murder over their alleged links to a sympathizer of the Islamic State group who carried out a deadly shooting in Vienna in 2020...

The Bank of England is expected to raise interest rates by as much as half a percentage point...

Police converged in force on the tiny, unincorporated community of Wolf Creek in southwest Oregon the night of Jan. 26 as they hunted for a suspect who was wanted for kidnapping and torturing a woman nearly to death...

Florida could make it easier for juries to hand down the death penalty...

It's Groundhog Day and people are waiting to learn whether a furry critter in a western Pennsylvania town will predict an early spring or six more weeks of winter...

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has welcomed the former head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command who warned in 2021 that the island could face an invasion from China this decade...

The United States and the Philippines have announced an agreement to expand America's military presence in the Southeast Asian country, with U.S. forces granted access to four more Philippine military camps, effectively giving Washington new ground to...

President Joe Biden is facing fresh pressure to make progress on police legislation after the killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis...

Bitter divisions dominated a recent national Republican Party gathering...

House Republicans are preparing to oust Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee...

The United States and the Philippines have announced plans to expand America's military presence in the Southeast Asian nation, with access to four more bases as they seek to deter China's increasingly aggressive actions toward Taiwan and in the d...

A judge says Pacific Gas & Electric must face trial for involuntary manslaughter over its role in a 2020 wildfire in Northern California that killed four people...

Police and sanitation workers on Wednesday night swept the encampment at Watson Hotel in Midtown where asylum seekers had been sleeping after refusing to go to the refugee camp at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal....

Australia is removing the British monarchy from its bank notes...

A 22-year-old Queens man was arraigned on Wednesday for possessing child pornography, trying to have sex with children and weapons charges, according to the DOJ....

The Biden administration has issued a long-awaited study that recommends allowing a major oil development on Alaska's North Slope...

Texas has executed an inmate convicted of fatally shooting a Dallas police officer nearly 16 years ago following a high-speed chase...

Power was briefly knocked out at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday afternoon, leaving many passengers at one of the world's busiest airports in the dark and halting security checks...

North Korea has threatened the "toughest reaction" to the United States' expanding joint military exercises with South Korea to counter the North's growing nuclear weapons ambitions, accusing the allies of pushing tensions to an "extre...

Lawyers for President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, have asked the Justice Department to investigate close allies of former President Donald Trump and others who they say accessed and disseminated personal data from a laptop he dropped off at a Delaware co...

President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have met for more than an hour at the White House, aiming to avert a national debt limit crisis...

The FBI and Bloomfield Police Department arrested a man suspected of throwing a Molotov cocktail at a New Jersey synagogue early Sunday morning, Bloomfield Mayor Michael Venezia announced on Facebook Wednesday....

The most expansive federal report in over two decades on guns and crime shows a shrinking turnaround between the time a gun was purchased and when it was recovered from a crime scene...

Police in Oregon say the suspect in a violent kidnapping killed two men before being cornered by officers and fatally shooting himself...

Disgraced Los Angeles celebrity lawyer Tom Girardi has been indicted in Los Angeles and Chicago on charges of stealing more than $18 million from clients...

The Federal Reserve extended its fight against high inflation by raising its key interest rate a quarter-point, its eighth hike since March...