Deaths from drug overdoses fell last year in the United States as fewer people lost their lives to fentanyl and other opioids, according to newly released estimates from the CDC.
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Defense attorneys for Donald Trump portrayed his former fixer as someone bent on seeing the former president behind bars.
The Biden administration this month put on hold a weapons shipment of 3,500 bombs that are capable of killing hundreds in populated areas.
Police began dismantling a pro-Palestinian encampment early Thursday at DePaul University, hours after the school’s president told students to leave the area or face arrest.
Israel’s defense minister says more troops will be sent into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where the military says it has destroyed Hamas tunnels and killed dozens of terrorists.
A teen who participated in a spicy tortilla chip challenge on social media died from ingesting a high amount of a chili pepper extract, according to an autopsy report obtained by AP.
California gas prices could rise by at least $1.11 per gallon by 2026 if the California Air Resources Board adopts amendments to its low carbon fuel standard program, CARB says.
Mike Johnson referred to himself as a “wartime speaker” of the House and indicated in his strongest self-defense yet he would press forward with a U.S. national security aid package.
It was the first time Iran has launched a direct military strike on Israel after decades of enmity going back to Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The one thing 9-year-old Cal Clifford wanted more than anything since he was a toddler was a pet octopus.
The most recent Powerball jackpot winner was Jan. 1, 2024, when $842.4 million was claimed in Michigan. It was the fifth-largest prize in Powerball history.
An attack by Yemen’s Houthi terrorists targeted a tanker in the Red Sea early Friday but the ship’s crew was unharmed, authorities said.
As American military pilots closed in on the northern coast of Gaza, Associated Press journalists aboard the aid mission watched as three tons of humanitarian aid was airdropped.
Stalled talks aimed at securing a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas are expected to resume in Qatar as soon as Sunday, according to Egyptian officials.
Alexei Navalny had been behind bars since January 2021, when he returned to Moscow after recuperating in Germany from nerve agent poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin.
