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A 6-year-old Palestinian girl and the two rescuers who went looking for her nearly two weeks ago were found dead Saturday, the Palestine Red Crescent said, ending a desperate effort to discover their fates.

Brazil is experiencing an enormous outbreak of dengue fever, the sometimes fatal mosquito-borne disease, and public health experts say it is a harbinger of a coming surge in cases in the Americas, including Puerto Rico.

Special counsel Robert Hur’s description of President Joe Biden’s demeanor as that of a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” infuriated Biden’s aides, who saw it as sharply at odds with what occurred as the president sat for voluntary questioning.

Heading up the hill, on the way to the neighborhood, everything looked black. The air still carried the acrid smell of the historic wildfires that left at least 131 Chileans dead. But at the crest of the hill, there was a stunning sight. In this desert of ash and soot, an oasis.

Seven people died when Russian drones struck a fuel depot late Friday night in one of the most calamitous attacks yet on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Burning fuel poured down the street from the destroyed depot, setting a line of houses ablaze so quickly that two families were burned alive in their homes.

Over 1 billion people around the globe are celebrating the Lunar New Year, often referred to as Chinese New Year, this weekend. Out with the quick-witted rabbit and in with the auspicious, fiery dragon for 2024.

A winter storm known as a nor’easter is expected to bring significant weather and travel impacts to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Monday and into Tuesday, after first dumping heavy rain and causing possible severe thunderstorms along the Gulf Coast and in the Southeast on Sunday and Monday.

The party of the imprisoned former prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, won the most seats in parliamentary elections this past week, delivering a strong rebuke to the country's powerful generals and throwing the political system into chaos.

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Friday in which an imprisoned Saudi Arabian dissident and his American sister accused the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, of conspiring with the Saudi Arabian government.

President Biden arrived in the Diplomatic Reception Room on Thursday evening aiming to demonstrate that what the special prosecutor had written about him in a report released earlier that day – that Biden was a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” – was false.

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck near Malibu on Friday and was felt across a wide swath of Southern California. The temblor was reported at 1:47 p.m., with an epicenter about 2½ miles northeast of Leo Carrillo State Beach and about 3 miles northwest of El Matador State Beach. It was followed by several aftershocks. An earlier estimate listed a magnitude of 4.7.

The first angry calls to the Pretty in Pink Boutique began last August, confusing staff at the Franklin, Tenn., provider of wigs, mastectomy bras and other accessories for cancer patients. Medicare recipients from around the country claimed that a company called “Pretty in Pink” had charged their health insurance companies thousands of dollars for urinary catheters that they never ordered or received.

Heather Pressdee, the former nurse from Harrison linked to the deaths of 17 nursing home patients at five facilities, appeared to be frustrated with her defense attorneys during a brief status hearing Friday in Butler County.

When Rep. Adam B. Schiff stood before the U.S. Senate on the final day of President Donald Trump's first impeachment trial, he reprised a familiar role: prosecutor.

Prince Harry on Friday settled a long-running phone hacking lawsuit against the Mirror tabloid, winning “substantial” costs and vowing to continue his “mission” to change Britain’s unruly tabloid press.

 At first glance, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach look like any others in the world. Among the world’s busiest, the neighboring facilities hum with massive container ships, tankers and auto carriers making their way in and out and cranes swinging containers onto waiting trucks.

U.S. President Joe Biden criticized the extent of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, as tension builds over Israeli plans to push into Rafah, where more than one million people have sought refuge.