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By BEN FINLEY and MELANIE LIDMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio along with Israel and Lebanon’s ambassadors announced a framework agreement Friday that was described as a first step toward peace following months of conflict …

By SIMINA MISTREANU TAIPEI (AP) — A small aircraft crashed into Beijing’s tallest building on Friday, the global flight tracking service provider Flightradar24 confirmed, following witness accounts and evacuations in the city’s business district. In a social media post, Flightradar24 …

A Juneteenth event, presented by Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation, celebrated Black culture with activities and performances on Thursday at El Cariso Community Regional Park in Sylmar. Annor Hunt Young, 11, has her face painted during a Juneteenth event …

By JAMIE STENGLE and JIM VERTUNO AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas education board will vote Friday on a required reading list for more than 5 million public school students that includes Bible passages, widening conservative efforts to push Christian …

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV said war is “never blessed by God” as he opened a meeting of the world’s cardinals on Friday by insisting the Catholic Church has a prophetic message of peace for a world ravaged …

By SAM MEDNICK, FAY ABUELGASIM and BERNAT ARMANGUE KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Three years of war have devastated much of Sudan. The impact has been pressed into the skin of survivors, and their memories. Thousands of people are dead. Millions …

By KATHY McCORMACK Utah’s governor restricted setting off fireworks and declared a state of emergency Friday ahead of the July fireworks season as the nation’s largest wildfire grew much bigger. The National Weather Service issued a rare extreme weather warning …

By BOB THOMAS LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ann Blyth, a versatile Hollywood star who received an Oscar nomination at 17 as Joan Crawford’s wayward daughter in “Mildred Pierce,” sang opposite Mario Lanza and Howard Keel in such MGM musicals as …

Six Flags Magic Mountain will take a wrecking ball to a shuttered pizza place on Samurai Summit that was once home to a hilltop steakhouse when the Valencia amusement park first opened in the 1970s. Six Flags Magic Mountain has …

By ED WHITE A man who was accused of faking his own death in 2020 and fleeing to Europe to evade rape charges in the U.S. has died after he was taken to a hospital from a Utah prison, authorities …

5 things to do in the garden this week: Woman picking ripe blackberries from bush.(Getty Images) Fruit. Blackberries are ripening now. This is one of the most aggressive ground covers or vines you could plant, and I recommend training it …

By MATT O’BRIEN, AP Technology Writer ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Friday it is restricting the release of its new artificial intelligence model at the request of President Donald Trump’s administration, the latest in an unprecedented government vetting of AI products …

By ALEXA ST. JOHN The record-breaking heat that’s scorching Europe day and night this month would not have been possible without climate change, according to a new study. The World Weather Attribution rapid study released Friday found that the heat …

A man was shot Thursday afternoon in the Near West Side neighborhood, according to Chicago police. The man, 41, was getting out of a vehicle in the 500 block of South Claremont Avenue at 2:40 p.m when a white sedan …

(L-R) Sean Peers, Philip Wild, and Graham Brougham are among the defendants now able to be identified in a case involving a man accused of drugging and raping his wife (Picture: PA) Reporting restrictions on identifying 12 co-defendants of a …

Chicago Public Schools officials say there are some services that won’t be touched as the district works to plug a projected $732 million deficit for the upcoming school year. That includes crossing guards and the Safe Passage program, which provides …

NEW YORK — After an earthquake struck Venezuela on Wednesday, Cubs infielder Pedro Ramirez was relieved to get confirmation from his mother that his family was OK. When a second earthquake struck and things got worse in his home country, …

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next Page Nicholas Rossi, an American fugitive who faked cancer and fled to Scotland to avoid jail, has …

Several punches were thrown towards a male firearms officer and his two female colleagues in the brawl (Picture: Crown Prosecution Service/UNPIXS) A female police officer who was punched during a fracas at Manchester Airport told a court of her anger …

Ava Max (Credit: Petros Kouiouris) Former Maxim cover star Ava Max is teaming up once again with Norwegian DJ Alan Walker for their second collaboration, “Fate.” Grounded in a hypnotic orchestral melody, the new track features Max’s vocals soaring majestically …