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Four people believed to be homeless have died outdoors in Anchorage, Alaska, as winter weather descended on the city over the past week.

Operations at the Gaza Strip’s main hospital were showing signs of collapse Saturday, with its director and the Gaza Health Ministry describing power outages, shortages of water and medicine and a crisis in treating seriously wounded patients and vulnerable children, while battles between Israeli troops and Hamas fighters raged ever closer.

Three people, including a Texas police officer, were killed during a hostage situation in the city of Austin early Saturday morning, according to Interim Police Chief Robin Henderson. A second officer was wounded, and the suspect was also killed.

With less than a week before federal spending laws expire, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Saturday unveiled a novel and uncertain plan to temporarily extend funding - but it's already been rejected by the Senate and White House, increasing the odds of a government shutdown.

Icelandic authorities declared a state of emergency and evacuated a town of about 4,000 people Saturday after hundreds of earthquakes were detected overnight, signaling an increased likelihood of a volcano erupting in the country's southwestern Reykjanes Peninsula.

Former President Donald Trump is planning an extreme expansion of his first-term crackdown on immigration if he returns to power in 2025 -- including preparing to round up people living in the United States without legal permission on a vast scale and detain them in camps while they wait to be expelled.

A senior Ukrainian military officer with deep ties to the country's intelligence services played a central role in the bombing of the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline last year, according to officials in Ukraine and elsewhere in Europe.

Nikki Haley's stock has risen in the Republican Party, and recent polls bolster her claim that she would be the party's strongest general election candidate against President Biden next November.

A month into the Gaza war, President Biden's steadfast support for Israeli leaders, even as the Palestinian civilian death toll mounts, risks lasting damage to Washington's standing in the region and beyond, Arab leaders and analysts say.

Since 2017, researchers have watched as Asian longhorned ticks, an invasive species not usually found in the Western Hemisphere, have spread across the United States. Now, researchers are using the gruesome deaths of three cows in Ohio to sound the alarm about the parasitic arachnids.

The Middle East has long been a global crossroads for air travel, with hundreds of aircraft bisecting the region every day on long-distance journeys connecting the U.S., Europe and Asia. Plying those routes has become more challenging, with rising tensions forcing airlines to curtail services as a safety precaution.

A barrage of hundreds of earthquakes, including two exceeding a magnitude of 5.0 and at least seven topping 4.5, rattled Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula on Friday. 

FBI agents seized Mayor Eric Adams' electronic devices early this week in what appeared to be a dramatic escalation of a criminal inquiry into whether his 2021 campaign conspired with the Turkish government and others to funnel money into its coffers.

In his first interview since the Oct. 22 incident, Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph Emerson painted a terrifying picture of an flight in which he reached up from his seat in a plane's cockpit and yanked the aircraft's two fire-suppression handles designed to cut the fuel supply and shut down both engines.

NEW YORK – Picasso studies, and exhibitions, seem increasingly like shale oil extraction: It takes ever-greater investment and resources to extract a diminishing supply of desired product. “Picasso in Fontainebleau,” a midsize show at the Museum of Modern Art, digs deeply into just a few months of production, the summer of 1921, when the artists worked in a rented house in a town some 40 miles outside of Paris.

A Sept. 6 attack, described by officials in Pakistan as a cross-border assault from Afghanistan, stunned a Pakistani leadership that had thought the Pakistani Taliban to be virtually eliminated.