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The United States is to become the first country to skip a regular review of its human rights record at the U.N.'s Human Rights Council

China says its trade surplus exceeded $1 trillion for a 2nd straight year, as exports in October surged 35%

The U.S. Attorneys Office for the Western District of Washington says it no longer has the staffing to defend every habeas corpus case and will let judges rule without government opposition

The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to resume border wall construction in the Big Bend region of Texas

A fraternity at Ohio State University has been temporarily suspended while authorities investigate a video that appears to show two people engulfed in flames

Democrats in Congress are gearing up to challenge President Donald Trump's education policies, including the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department

Former Washington Post opinion writer Karen Attiah has decided not to return to her old job

Kyle Larson becomes first back-to-back NASCAR Cup Series champion since 2010

Students in Vallejo, California, faced a challenging start to the school year as they adjusted to a new school after their previous one closed

President Donald Trump said he thinks his administration was too aggressive on deportations

A Florida chimpanzee sanctuary briefly had to deliver food to one of its 200 apes by drone this week because the property was swamped by heavy rain

It is too early to tell whether the shootings were connected, police say.

Israels president officially gives opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot the first chance to form the next government

Record rainfall in the U.S. Southwest is providing rare relief to the region's depleted reservoirs

The tiny U.S. government division charged with assessing the safety of new artificial intelligence offerings doesnt have a permanent leader and has stopped publishing its research

Melania Trump is set to travel to Louisiana to announce a partnership with Louisiana State University to provide scholarships for students who were once in foster care

Teslas Cybertruck, the hulking, stainless-steel pickup that inspired devotion and derision with its science-fiction looks, will cease production next year

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Pena has formed in the Pacific Ocean

Residents are cleaning up from catastrophic flooding along the Tennessee-Georgia border that forecasters are calling a once-in-a-1,000 year event

The father of the co-pilot who died along with eight others when her Learjet crashed in Florida feels immense pride when he listens to his daughters heartbreaking final radio transmissions to try to figure out why it plunged from the sky

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has met with nonprofits in Puerto Rico as officials announced a $280,000 partnership to help the U.S. territory confront emergencies

Former NFL star Antonio Brown has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault with a firearm in connection with a 2025 shooting in Miami

Two iconic rock formations that long attracted tourists and photographers to a remote part of New Mexico have collapsed

Closing arguments are set to begin in the case of a former Massachusetts police officer accused of killing a pregnant woman to keep her from revealing they had an illicit sexual relationship when she was 15

Pope Leo XIV is returning home to the continent where he spent two decades as a missionary priest and learned to be a pastor, visiting Uruguay, Argentina and his second homeland of Peru

Matthew Martinez has lived nearly all his 60 years on a piece of property on the Navajo River and never saw severe flooding until now

Four men named in a former Cornell University students lawsuit are joining a co-defendants effort to block New Yorks attorney general from leading a reopened criminal investigation into the womans gang rape allegations

Catcher Bo Naylor, a former teammate of Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, says he didnt know gamblers could place bets on individual pitches until the criminal case against the pitchers arose

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said hell change all death sentences in the state to life in prison without the possibility of parole

Authorities say a female postal employee shot two colleagues at the main post office in Iowas capital city before being captured nearby

Paraguay President Santiago Pea resigns following bank collapse

Thunderstorms with heavy rain have caused record flooding in two towns straddling the Georgia-Tennessee border

A fire in a two-story home in New York has killed six people and injured seven others

Bank of England raises main interest rate a quarter point to 4% as Iran war stokes inflation

Shares are mixed in Asia as heavy selling of AI-related stocks offset gains for some markets following the U.S. midterm elections

Authorities are still trying to piece together how a convicted murderer in Tennessee evaded capture for more than a week

Florida, Indiana and Alabama are scheduled to carry out executions Thursday

3M has agreed to pay up to $7.35 billion to settle lawsuits over groundwater contamination from potentially harmful chemicals in firefighting foam and other products

Emergency crews responded to an explosion at a chemical plant in Mississippi that sent a large plume of black smoke into the air

Authorities say the two Colorado college students whose bodies were recovered last week died when an anchor they were using to climb failed and they fell a substantial distance.

Kenya has released five Ebola patients after they tested negative for the virus and showed no symptoms

Arizona Cardinals left tackle Jayden Williams is among a growing number of NFL players who have worn Guardian Caps during games

Doctors say Pope Leo XIV is eating regularly and has begun walking and doing respiratory exercises, and his post-operative tests are normal following surgery to remove a cancerous mass from his lung