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MUNICH — Shock, grief and then fury rippled through the hallways and conference rooms of the Munich Security Conference on Friday as the news of Alexei Navalny’s death spread, announced by authorities in the Siberian prison where he’d been taken late last year. It did not come as a surprise …

Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, a site in Colorado that once held thousands of Japanese Americans opened its doors this week as the country’s newest national park. The Department of the Interior reopened what was Camp Amache on Thursday, nearly two years after President Joe …

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a new cancer therapy that could one day transform the way a majority of aggressive and advanced tumors are treated. The treatment, called Amtagvi, from Iovance Biotherapeutics, is for metastatic melanoma patients who have already tried and failed other drugs. It’s known …

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s campaign and abortion rights advocates ripped into former President Donald Trump on abortion Friday following a report that he has given private signals in favor of a national ban on abortions after 16 weeks of pregnancy that would include exceptions in cases of rape, incest …

Passengers aboard a Delta flight from Amsterdam to Detroit got a surprising, and disgusting, announcement from the pilot an hour into their flight — they’d be turning around due to maggots falling from a bag in an overhead bin, showering a passenger in the process. Maggots — the larvae of …

The judge who presided over a civil business fraud trial against Donald Trump and his company has issued his decision in the case. Judge Arthur Engoron ordered the former president and the Trump Organization to pay over $300 million in damages, and bars Trump “from serving as an officer or …

WASHINGTON — Progressive lawmakers and immigration advocates are pushing back against Democrats who say the lesson from their recent special election victory in a bellwether New York district is to actively champion stricter migration and border laws. “I don’t think that’s the lesson at all,” Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, the …

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers from both sides of the political divide united to condemn President Vladimir Putin for the death of Alexei Navalny on Friday and pay tribute to Russia’s most prominent opposition figure. Democratic and Republican lawmakers from both the Senate and the House were quick blame the Russian leader and his …

Two people were found fatally shot in a dormitory room Friday morning, an incident that prompted officials to put part of the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs on a short lockdown. University police got a report of gunfire in the room just before 6 a.m. local time. Officers “discovered two deceased …

Twenty tech companies working on artificial intelligence said Friday they had signed a “pledge” to try to prevent their software from interfering in elections, including in the United States.  The signatories range from tech giants such as Microsoft and Google to a small startup that allows people to make fake …

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden sought to reassure the American public Friday that there’s “no nuclear threat” to the U.S. even as Russia considers using an anti-satellite capability that officials say would be used in space. “First of all, there is no nuclear threat to the people of America or anywhere …

Angela Chao, the CEO of Foremost Group and the sister-in-law of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, died after her car went into a pond on a private ranch about 40 miles west of Austin, Texas, authorities said Friday. Chao’s family on Wednesday announced she died in a car accident Sunday, but …

Jewish American singer Matisyahu is accusing music venues in Tucson, Arizona, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, of canceling his scheduled performances at the last minute due to issues involving the Israel-Hamas war, but the venues said the shows were axed over safety concerns and staff shortages. In his statement on …

Two juveniles have been charged in connection with a shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade that left one person dead and 22 others injured, officials said Friday. The juveniles were charged Thursday and are being held at a juvenile detention center on gun-related and resisting arrest charges, …

As consumers continue to struggle with persistently high inflation, Target is unveiling a low-price, in-house brand it’s calling dealworthy. Target’s dealworthy products will start at less than $1, with most items coming in under $10, the company said. The retailer is marketing some 400 items under the label, including apparel …

Although Vince Staples has been in the limelight for more than a decade, he still thinks fame is a weird thing. And while the Southern California rapper isn’t necessarily concerned with “making the best thing” or reaping critical praise, he’s willing to endure the publicity machine if it means he …

PORTLAND, Maine — An Army reservist responsible for Maine’s deadliest mass shooting told state police in New York before his hospitalization last summer that fellow soldiers were worried about him because he was “gonna friggin’ do something.” Reservist Robert Card told troopers who escorted him to a hospital in upstate …

The suburban Philadelphia man charged with decapitating his father and posting a video online in which he held up the severed head had a device with photos of federal buildings and apparent instructions for making explosives when he was arrested, authorities said Thursday. Justin Mohn, 32, faces a dozen new charges, including …

Jenny Cavnar is in a league of her own. Last week, Cavnar was named the primary play-by-play announcer for the Oakland A’s, making her the first woman to hold such a position in Major League Baseball history. Cavnar will pair up with her broadcast partner, former A’s pitcher Dallas Braden, …

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza — The video shows a woman in a hijab walking down a tunnel, followed by a young girl and two boys. One of the boys holds a light against the gloom. And then a man with white hair and prominent ears enters the frame, his back to …