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North Korea test-fired what appeared to be at least one ballistic missile just as its envoy was preparing to address the United Nations, in a pointed gesture of defiance against international resolutions meant to prevent ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — An ex-U.S. Army Ranger from Connecticut faces extradition to the Netherlands where authorities say he was part of a plot by former and active duty American soldiers who hired themselves out as a ...Read more

MIAMI — U.S. Coast Guard crews based in Key West stopped a speedboat off the Dominican Republic last week that the agency said was hauling 10 bales of cocaine.

The total weight of the drugs was around 250 kilograms with...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The nation’s largest prosecutor’s office is moving to dismiss roughly 60,000 marijuana convictions, the latest step to undo what some reform advocates consider the damage caused by narcotics enforcement...Read more

NEW YORK — They believe R. Kelly can die — in prison.

A Brooklyn federal jury found the sex trafficking R&B superstar guilty on all nine counts Monday, delivering a verdict that could put him behind bars for the rest ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Nearly six years after the worst methane gas leak in U.S. history forced more than 8,000 families in Porter Ranch to flee their homes, Southern California Gas Co. has agreed to pay a settlement of up to $1....Read more

MIAMI — A second federal lawsuit aimed at stopping sports betting in Florida was filed Monday in the District of Columbia, this time with the backing of two of Miami’s most outspoken critics of gambling, developer ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Monday received a COVID-19 booster shot as part of a broader, public push to promote vaccinations in the hopes of slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus.

“Now, I know it doesn�...Read more

New York City may begin to bar thousands of unvaccinated school personnel from their jobs after a three-judge federal appellate court panel lifted a temporary injunction preventing such a move.

The court issued the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge on Monday ordered that all correctional officers and staff entering California’s prisons be vaccinated.

The judge sided with a federal court-appointed receiver overseeing the medical care...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy accidentally opened fire inside a Van Nuys courtroom last month, potentially injuring a colleague and prompting an internal investigation, officials said.

The Sheriff'...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska, already the state with the country’s worst COVID-19 recent-case rate, now also holds one of the country’s highest rates of recently reported deaths.

The state reported another 21 deaths ...Read more

NEW YORK — Chicago-born R&B singer R. Kelly sat nearly motionless in a federal courtroom in New York on Monday, surrounded by his attorneys but looking very much alone.

Gone was the superstardom and all the trappings ...Read more

DETROIT — COVID-19 transmission is at the highest risk level designated by the federal government in every county in Michigan with the addition of Sanilac County in data released by the federal Centers for Disease ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Nearly six years after the worst methane gas leak in U.S. history forced more than 8,000 families in Porter Ranch to flee their homes, Southern California Gas Co. has agreed to pay a settlement up to $1.8 ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed Monday the Republican-controlled state Legislature's latest attempt to transfer executive-branch powers — this time, the attorney general's — to itself.

Senate Bill ...Read more

NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul took executive action Monday to allow medically trained National Guard troops to fill in for hospital workers who are refusing to get their COVID-19 shots despite the state’s vaccine ...Read more

Amid a deafening public outcry, Mayor de Blasio finally visited Rikers Island on Monday after staying away from the troubled jail complex for four years and as lawmakers and advocates demanded he see firsthand what they’...Read more