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The leader of Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militia, said it would escalate its fight against Israel following a worsening spate of attacks between the two sides this week.

Psychedelics are becoming so mainstream that the Department of Veterans Affairs is examining the use of MDMA - also known as ecstasy - and psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms, to fight post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression.

CHARLESTON, S.C. – The pastor meant to devote Bible study to the gravity of marriage, but here they were, once again, talking about guns.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a long-term security cooperation deal as Ukraine’s worsening artillery shortage threatens to force a further rationing of shells.

Alexey Navalny, the Russian lawyer and anti-corruption activist who became the most potent voice in opposition to President Vladimir Putin, a calling that landed him in a maximum-security prison camp, has died, according to the prison service. He was 47.

District Attorney Fani Willis Thursday accused defense lawyers of lying about her romantic relationship with a subordinate in an attempt to use her personal life to derail Fulton County’s election subversion case.

The Russians were already so close that the road to the Avdiivka coke and chemical plant was only dared taken at night. Vehicle headlights were shut off and covered, hoping to prevent glare visible to an enemy drone hovering overhead.

Missouri’s firearms laws, a gun rights fortress that protects concealed weapons and seeks to limit federal law enforcement, was built over the years by state lawmakers brick by brick.

With its troops poised to attack Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city and possibly Hamas’s final stronghold, Israel is confronting a dilemma largely of its own making: what to do with nearly a million and a half displaced Palestinians that its military has corralled along the Egyptian border.

Authorities in Kansas City said Thursday that they were keeping two teenagers in custody after a shooting that tore through the city's Super Bowl celebration, killing one person and wounding nearly two dozen others, in what appeared to be the result of an argument.

Hurricane season is still more than three months away, but in parts of the tropical Atlantic, it feels like we might as well already be in the thick of it. Across a strip of ocean where many cyclones are born, February ocean temperatures are closer to what scientists expect in July.

A judge in New York ruled Donald Trump’s trial over alleged hush-money payments to a porn star to influence the 2016 election will start as planned on March 25, making it the first of four criminal cases against the former president to go before a jury.

On graduation day in 1956, Patricia Banks was excited to start a career as a stewardess. Airlines came to the Grace Downs Air Career School in Manhattan to recruit candidates. Though she was a top student in her class, she received no offers. An instructor pulled her aside and told Banks the carriers would never hire her because of her race.

Rapidly rising seas are wreaking havoc on Louisiana’s coastal wetlands, and could devastate three-quarters of the state’s natural buffer against hurricanes in the coming decades, scientists found in a study published Thursday.

Nikki Haley has spent far more money and time on the upcoming South Carolina Republican primary than her rival Donald Trump, yet still trails the former president by a wide margin there, despite it being her home state.

President Joe Biden entered 2023 with a divided Congress and his fellow Democrats holding the narrowest of majorities in the Senate. And like recent predecessors who lost one-party control in midterm elections, Biden saw the average support rate for his position on votes in Congress drop last year, to 70.4% from 94.9% a year earlier, CQ Roll Call’s annual Vote Studies analysis found.

Four students were shot Wednesday afternoon at Benjamin E. Mays High School, Atlanta Public Schools officials said. Officials said the victims have non-life-threatening injuries, and no other students, faculty or staff members were injured.

The United States has informed Congress and its allies in Europe of new intelligence about Russian nuclear capabilities that could pose an international threat, according to officials briefed on the matter.