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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.

OXFORD, Mich. — Parents of children murdered in the 2021 Oxford High School attack demanded that school staff who declined to be interviewed for the independent investigation be compelled to talk and the report updated with their interviews. Buck Myre and Steve St. Juliana, whose children were among four killed in the Nov. 30, 2021, shooting, told Oxford Superintendent Vickie Markavitch during ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Ellen Kennedy's house in Edina is packed with memories of more than three decades with her late husband, Leigh Lawton. They visited nearly 50 countries together, some for work — she the founder of the human rights organization World Without Genocide, he a business professor at the University of St. Thomas — and some for fun. Near the front door is a samovar from Ukraine. There's ...

Executives at KSK Construction, the Brooklyn-based contractor facing scrutiny as part of a federal investigation into Mayor Eric Adams’ 2021 campaign, have made contributions to and worked with Turkey’s second largest political party.

A surging number of RSV cases and other respiratory illnesses has filled nearly every pediatric bed at area hospitals, the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council reported Friday.

Former President Donald Trump has vowed to unleash federal prosecutors on critics if he wins reelection next year in what he frames as retaliation for his own criminal woes.

The prison system in England and Wales is dangerously close to capacity, with 98% of available spaces full, according to data released by Britain's Ministry of Justice on Friday that experts said underscored an ongoing crisis within the criminal justice system.

A federal judge on Friday put off until at least March the fraught and consequential decision of whether to delay the start of former President Donald Trump's trial on charges of illegally holding on to a trove of highly classified national security secrets after he left office.

Hamas and Israel are negotiating two hostage release proposals, one involving a small number of people and one that could involve 100 or more civilians being held in the Gaza Strip, according to officials briefed on the talks.

Two days after Republicans across the country suffered a drubbing, dragged down by their opposition to abortion rights in the off-year elections, GOP leaders on Capitol Hill appeared not to have gotten the memo.