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New Jersey wants to withdraw from a commission the states formed decades ago to combat the mob’s influence at their joint port

Kyiv urgently requires ammunition as the Kremlin seeks a breakthrough on the eastern front, where Moscow is sending waves of infantry to deplete the defenders’ stocks of heavy shells

Mexican federal sources confirm that a diplomatic letter has been issued requesting that the Sinaloa Cartel leader be sent to the US to stand trial for trafficking with marijuana and cocaine

U.S. overdose deaths hit a record in 2021, about three-quarters of those from opioids during a crisis that was first spun into the making by drug makers

Federal investigators released a preliminary report into the fiery derailment that prompted a toxic chemical release and an evacuation

The National Weather Service warns of “life-threatening” conditions due to a brutal winter storm across the Midwest and North

Jeremy Bertino is testifying against the group’s former national leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants as part of a cooperation deal with federal prosecutors

The average American juggled 6.7 subscriptions in 2022, up from 4.2 in 2019, according to Rocket Money, a personal finance app

Joe Biden’s surprise visit Monday was the first time in modern history that an American leader visited a war zone outside the protection of the US military

The US president made an unannounced trip to Kyiv to meet with Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a gesture of solidarity days before the anniversary of Moscow’s invasion

Officials, environmentalists and representatives of global industries that depend on the sea are watching negotiations closely

The competition between the two powers – each seeking global hegemony – is increasing pressures, risks and opportunities for other countries

The city has been struggling to accommodate 45,000 new arrivals. Mayor Eric Adams – who insists that there is no more room – is asking them to go to Canada

Blinken and Wang Yi, the Chinese Communist Party’s most senior foreign policy official, held talks in Munich after the US shot down an alleged surveillance device

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said the White House chief of staff is a kind of a “chief operating officer of the country”

Beijing imposes sanctions on US companies for selling military equipment to Taiwan following the surveillance balloon incident

Workers in white jumpsuits used rakes, shovels and pitchforks to clear McPherson Square, tossing the remnants of the tent city into a pair of garbage trucks

Anger briefly turned physical at Payton Gendron’s sentencing when a man in the audience rushed at him

The senator, who turns 90 in June, is the oldest member of Congress and has faced questions in recent years about her cognitive health and memory

Rodriguez’s guilty plea comes about two weeks before jury selection was supposed to begin in his trial in Washington

Craig was assaulted in the elevator at about 7:15 a.m., called 911 and the assailant fled

Currently Maine and Vermont, as well as the District of Columbia, are the only states where felons never lose their right to vote

The discovery of the documents at the office blocks away from the US Capitol led to a search of the president’s homes, including his residence in Wilmington, Delaware

The young Black man died in Memphis, three days after being beaten by five police officers – all of them African-American – with the violent arrest being caught on video. The ambulance took 22 minutes to arrive on the scene

The two haven’t had the smoothest of relationships with the president, a big supporter of labor unions, disappointed by the Tesla owner’s refusal to allow them into his factories

The retail giant said Tuesday that it will launch RxPass, a program for customers who have Prime memberships