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The U.S. unveiled its biggest one-day sanctions package against Russia since the invasion of Ukraine two years ago, targeting more than 500 people and entities in a fresh bid to squeeze the country’s economy and send a message over the death of dissident Alexey Navalny.

As relations between the United States and China have soured in recent years, Beijing has been making its unhappiness known by recalling its softest power: pandas. Three of the black-and-white fluff balls departed the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington last year, triggering a long and tearful farewell. Only one zoo in the country, Atlanta, still had pandas.

The day Chris and Brittany Tyler heard the news that a newborn baby was surrendered at a Louisville Fire Department station, they sat by their phones hoping they’d get the call to pick him up.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer made a surprise visit to Ukraine to reassure President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the U.S. will follow through on the next round of aid, even as it faces obstacles in Congress.

Mike Johnson promised a “well-oiled machine” the night he won the U.S. House speaker’s gavel. Four months later, he hasn’t delivered.

“Good Night. Malaysian Three Seven Zero.” Those six words were the last radio transmission from the cockpit of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, less than an hour after the aircraft took off late at night from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. Minutes later, the plane disappeared from air-traffic control radar screens.

Hurricane season is still months away, but warm winter waters in the Atlantic Ocean are already concerning some forecasters.

The United States plans to impose sanctions on more than 500 targets Friday in its response to Russia over the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the largest single package in a flurry of economic restrictions since the country's invasion of Ukraine two years ago.

Russian authorities have declared that opposition leader Alexei Navalny died of natural causes but are refusing to release his remains until his family agrees to a "secret funeral," Navalny's mother and his spokesperson said Thursday.

The FBI informant charged with telling lies about President Biden and his son Hunter was rearrested Thursday in Las Vegas, apparently out of concern he might flee - just days after a federal magistrate decided he could be released on bond.

For the first time in more than 50 years, a U.S. spacecraft has landed on the moon.

American law enforcement officials spent years looking into allegations that allies of Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, met with and took millions of dollars from drug cartels after he took office, according to U.S. records and three people familiar with the matter.

A new study from Emory University researchers has found an association between traffic-related air pollution and Alzheimer’s disease in humans.

As the general paced the briefing room, he displayed a piece of lethal technology and detailed the death and chaos it has caused in Ukraine.

Climbers ascending Mount Everest will be expected to collect their poop in doggy bags and carry their waste back to base camp, according to new regulations from local officials as they attempt to address a long-festering littering problem on the world’s tallest peak.

President Joe Biden called Vladimir Putin a “crazy SOB” and took a swipe at Republican rival Donald Trump for likening himself to Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who died last week in a remote prison.

Nearly one-quarter of menthol cigarette smokers quit in the year or two after a ban on menthol went into effect, according to a study published Wednesday.

Houthi militants and their Iranian backers are preparing for a lengthy confrontation with the U.S. and allies around the Red Sea regardless of how the Israel-Hamas war plays out.