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A Russian official says a Ukrainian drone attack has killed one person and wounded two others in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region. Gov. Gleb Nikitin said Monday that drones targeted two ...

President Donald Trump says he’s placing the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control and deploying the National Guard to make the nation's capital safer. Trump has promised to addres ...

Ford Motor Co. will invest nearly $2 billion retooling a Kentucky factory to produce electric vehicles that it says will be more affordable, more profitable to ...

J.B. Pritzker speaks alongside Gene Wu, right, the Texas House Democratic Caucus chair, and other Texas Democrats on Aug. 3, ...

Some changes are suddenly afoot at Danville’s Schlarman Academy: First, a familiar face will be returning in the principal’s ...

Forecasters say Tropical Storm Erin has formed in the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean, just west of the Cabo Verde Islands. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center says it will initiate advisories ...

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has invited U.S. President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the NATO secretary general and several European leaders to a virtual meeting Wednesda ...

A federal judge in New York has ruled transcripts of secret grand jury testimony in the sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell won’t be released. Judge ...