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Families that lost loved ones to overdoses are divided over Purdue Pharma’s plan to settle with governments

The vehicle had raced through an intersection, hit a median and was launched through the air before slamming into a line of booths and exploding at the Rainbow Bridge crossing in Niagara Falls

Geert Wilders provided a major boost to Europe’s far-right populists with his election win in the Netherlands. Suddenly on Thursday they felt there was hope in the air again. Especially with a European Parliament election coming up in June

Officials told residents to stop using their taps and began distributing vouchers for bottled water. Lead can have devastating effects on childhood development

Lisandro Alonso Martínez’s ‘Eureka,’ screening at the Gijón International Film Festival this week, is the latest in a wave of films that address Indigenous massacres and brutal dictatorships through fantastical elements

Two people in the vehicle that exploded were dead at scene. The FBI’s field office in Buffalo is investigating the explosion on the Rainbow Bridge

The arrival of Venezuelans on the Honduran border has multiplied. So far this year, almost 500,000 people have crossed through the dense rainforest of the Colombia-Panama border, double the number from the previous number year

The term is most often traced to Philadelphia in the mid-20th century — when police and other city workers had to deal with large crowds who collected before the annual Army-Navy game

60 years ago, Lee Harvey Oswald shot the President in an event that left a profound impact in American society

Among the leaders he’s praised are Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un

It is one of a growing number of states to do so. It will start limiting the amount of new gasoline-powered cars that can be sold in the state starting in 2027

At least 10 states have enacted laws prohibiting or restricting students from using pronouns or names that don’t match their sex assigned at birth

His will had brief instructions: $3.8 million to the town of Hinsdale to benefit the community in the areas of education, health, recreation and culture

The Sandinista apparatus, accused of frequent human rights violations, condemned the organization for aligning with the United States

The Transportation Security Administration expects to screen 2.6 million passengers on Tuesday and 2.7 million on Wednesday. 55.4 million Americans will travel at least 50 miles from home

The presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine advocacy and inflammatory comments about everything from the Holocaust to the pandemic, have led to a rare public family breach

All around the town of Plains, GA, neighbors mourned the death of their matriarch, while worrying about their patriarch, former President Jimmy Carter

Authorities say the city is in the midst of a crime crisis. Homicides are up 34% compared with this time last year. Car theft is up 98%, and carjackings have more than doubled — up 104%

The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s optimistic outlook for inflation underscores why analysts increasingly think the Fed’s next move will be a rate cut, rather than an increase

The eight-year ban is only the latest firearm restriction added to Michigan law since Democrats took control of both chambers of the state

The Republican National Committee mulling rules changes would force presidential candidates to sign a pledge saying they won’t participate in any debates sponsored by the CPD

Prosecutors say those restrictions are necessary to prevent Trump from undermining confidence in the court system and intimidating people who may be called to testify against him

The tradition dates to 1947 when the National Turkey Federation, which represents turkey farmers and producers, first presented a National Thanksgiving Turkey to President Harry Truman

The ultra-neoliberal economist obtained 56% of the votes in the runoff election against Peronist Sergio Massa

Nearly half of the 27,000 migrants who have arrived in Denver since November 2022 have received a ticket from the city to travel onward. In New York and Illinois, taxpayer dollars are also being spent on tickets out of town

The endorsement Sunday comes as the former president campaigns on a hard-line immigration agenda that would be far more expansive than the policies he pursued during his first term in the White House