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President Biden is scheduled to arrive outside Philadelphia on Friday afternoon to deliver his first speech of this election year, attempting to cast the 2024 presidential campaign as a battle for the future of American democracy and portray former president Donald Trump as its chief antagonist.

The missiles the US has accused North Korea of sending to Russia appear to be from its newest family of nuclear-capable rockets that are easy to hide, quick to deploy and hard to shoot down.

North Korea fired some 200 artillery shells near a South Korean border island off the west coast of the peninsula, turning up pressure on Seoul after leader Kim Jong Un said it was impossible to unify with his neighbor.

Nearly three months of war have left Gaza in ruins. Israel's quest to eradicate militant group Hamas after it carried out its deadly Oct. 7 attack looks far from finished, no matter the skyrocketing death toll for Palestinians. More than 20,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip due to Israeli bombardments and the ongoing offensive. A sprawling humanitarian crisis has seen close to 90 percent of Gazans displaced and the majority of the embattled territory's more than 2 million population teetering on the brink of famine.

The world’s largest alpine lake and a California jewel is being littered with plastic. In a study published late last year, scuba divers found 673 pieces of plastic in the lakebed of Lake Tahoe at five different locations, raising concerns about the extent of plastic pollution across the lake.

A subway train carrying about 300 people collided with a work train near West 96th Street in Manhattan on Thursday afternoon, causing the work train to derail, Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said.

A U.S. airstrike in Baghdad on Thursday killed an Iran-linked militia commander and risked accelerating the regional fallout from Washington's support for Israel's military operation in Gaza, even as the Biden administration scrambles to contain the bloodshed.

A convicted felon is facing seven charges after a female juvenile who left her family at a casino to take a walk on the Strip was allegedly lured into prostitution and then kidnapped in a motel room, according to Las Vegas police.

When the raids come, a lot of things happen at once in this Palestinian refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.

Gunfire erupted inside an Iowa high school on what should have been the first day of students’ spring semester, police said, though the extent of the violence remains unclear.  

Andrew Lloyd Webber may know a thing or two about phantoms on Broadway, but he sought help from a higher power to remove a poltergeist from his home.

During Donald Trump's presidency, his businesses received at least $7.8 million in payments from the foreign governments and officials of 20 countries, including China, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, according to a report released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

On the morning of his first crossing of the Dnieper River - where his unit was being sent in a desperate effort to claw back occupied land from Russia - the 21-year-old Ukrainian marine woke up "ready to die."

Many Americans watched video footage of the crowd attacking the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but few have a firsthand account of what happened inside. Three years ago, Los Angeles Times reporter Sarah D. Wire wrote about her experience, typing it out on a cellphone from the House safe room. She was one of three reporters to make it inside.

President Biden is scheduled to travel to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, on Friday to give remarks on the eve of the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection as his campaign attempts to take a more aggressive posture toward Donald Trump and center the election on a fight for democracy.