SOMERS, Connecticut (AP): A fire that raced through a two-family home in northern Connecticut on Tuesday night killed four children and several animals as firefighters struggled with rescue efforts because of clutter, authorities said. The four...
New York (AP): The brother of a powerful leftist senator in Colombia pleaded guilty on Tuesday to federal narcotics charges as part of a sting in which he offered to introduce US drug informants to dissident guerrillas who could help smuggle huge...
MEXICO CITY (AP): A cartel in the embattled central Mexico state of Michoacan set up its own makeshift Internet antennas and told locals they had to pay to use its Wi-Fi service or they would be killed, state prosecutors said Wednesday. Dubbed “...
NEW YORK (AP) — Amid great hype, a court began to release a new batch of previously secret court documents late Wednesday related to Jeffrey Epstein, the jet-setting financier who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking...
A New Jersey imam was gunned down outside his mosque before dawn Wednesday, leaving authorities hunting for a shooter and saying they've found no evidence yet that an anti-Muslim bias played a part in the shooting. Imam Hassan Sharif was in his...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A cartel in the embattled central Mexico state of Michoacan has set up its own makeshift Internet antennas and told locals they had to pay to use its Wi-Fi service or they would be killed, state prosecutors said Wednesday....
Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war in the biggest single release of captives since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. Ukrainian authorities said that 230 Ukrainian prisoners of war returned...
TOKYO (AP) — A transcript of communication between traffic control and two aircraft that collided and burst into flames at Tokyo's Haneda Airport showed that only the larger Japan Airlines passenger flight was given permission...
LONDON (AP) — Thousands of doctors walked off the job in Britain on Wednesday, the start of a six-day strike over pay that was set to be the longest in the history of the state-funded National Health Service. Managers said tens of...
WASHINGTON (CMC): Two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nationals have been named as new commissioners of the Washington-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that has also launched a new institutional cycle. IACHR said that as of...
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP): Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned on Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing, where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on campus for the...
SEOUL (AP): South Korea’s tough-speaking liberal opposition leader, Lee Jae-myung, was stabbed in the neck by an unidentified knife-wielding man who attempted to kill him during his visit to the southeastern city of Busan on Tuesday, the police...
TOKYO (AP): A passenger plane and a Japanese coast guard aircraft collided on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Tuesday and burst into flames, with five people on the smaller plane killed, officials said. All 379 people on Japan Airlines...
WAJIMA (AP): A series of powerful earthquakes that hit western Japan have left at least 55 people dead and damaged thousands of buildings, vehicles and boats. Officials warned Tuesday that more quakes could lie ahead. Aftershocks continued to...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man was found dead inside an airplane engine Monday night at Salt Lake City International Airport after police said he breached an emergency exit door, walked onto the tarmac and climbed inside the jet's engine....
KISSIMMEE, Florida (AP) — A group of volunteer divers believe they have found the remains of a woman in a vehicle submerged in a retention pond near Walt Disney World, apparently solving a 12-year-old mystery about what happened to her....
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday appealed a ruling by Maine's Democratic secretary of state barring him from the ballot over his role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. He was expected to also...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's tough-speaking liberal opposition leader, Lee Jae-myung, was stabbed in the neck Tuesday by an unidentified knife-wielding man who attempted to kill the politician during his visit to the...
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) — Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on campus for...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A man who died after crashing an SUV loaded with gas cans outside an upstate New York concert venue appeared to have been aiming at a pedestrian crossing, but investigators have found no evidence that the...
TOKYO (AP) — A passenger plane and a Japanese Coast Guard aircraft collided on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Tuesday and burst into flames, with five people on the smaller plane killed, officials said. All 379 people on Japan...
WAJIMA, Japan (AP) — A series of powerful earthquakes that hit western Japan have left at least 48 people dead and damaged thousands of buildings, vehicles and boats. Officials warned that more quakes could lie ahead. Aftershocks continued...
TEL AVIV (AP): Thousands of Israeli soldiers are being shifted out of the Gaza Strip, the military said on Monday, in the first significant drawdown of troops since the war began, as forces continued to bear down on the main city in the southern...
DHAKA (AP): A labour court in Bangladesh’s capital has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus to six months in jail for violating the country’s labour laws. Yunus, who pioneered using microcredit to help impoverished people, was present...
LONDON (AP): A Colorado mother suspected of killing two of her young children and injuring a third made an initial court appearance on Monday in London, where she was arrested over the weekend. Kimberlee Singler, 35, appeared in Westminster...
