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The couple designed the gold wedding band together before they got married, in 1981, carefully selecting a cross in the center and grapevines around it, signifying "the vine of life," said Mary Ann Novetske, 71. When he couldn't find the ring, "I was dispirited," said Joseph Novetske.

Alexander Mokin had lost the will to live. Convicted of selling drugs and ostracized by his family, he endured abuse from guards and frequent spells in solitary confinement at a high-security Russian prison. He told a friend he felt alone and wracked with guilt. Then, in the summer of 2022, Mokin and other inmates in Penal Colony No. 6, known at IK6, in the Chelyabinsk region started hearing rumors. One of Russia's most powerful men was reportedly touring jails and offering pardons for prisoners who survived six months of fighting in Ukraine.

A man suspected in a shooting Sunday in Dallas that killed four people, including a 1-year-old, shot and killed himself after he was pursued by authorities, law enforcement officials told The Dallas Morning News.  

Three people are in federal custody after a migrant landing on Key Biscayne Monday morning, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis squared off against California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday in what was billed as “The Great Red vs. Blue State Debate” on Fox News.

Five bodies and the bulk of the wreckage are thought to have been located under water after a U.S. military Osprey aircraft crashed in southwestern Japan last week, Kyodo News reported, citing a source close to the matter.

Israel is expanding military operations into southern Gaza, putting at risk hundreds of thousands of Palestinians escaping the north as U.S. officials grow increasingly uneasy about the war’s toll on civilians.

A U.S. Navy destroyer shot down three drones during a sustained attack in the Red Sea Sunday, the Pentagon said, in what could signal another escalation in the tit-for-tat attacks between the U.S. military and Iranian-backed militants.

Up to 1.8 million residents of the Gaza Strip -- around 80% of the population -- have been forced to leave their homes since Israel began its bombardment in response to Hamas' attack Oct. 7.

At least four people were killed and dozens of others injured Sunday in an explosion at a Roman Catholic Mass inside a university gymnasium in the southern Philippine city of Marawi, officials said.

The U.S. government is making an intense effort to persuade Israel and Hamas to resume negotiations so they can once again pause hostilities and exchange more prisoners for hostages, a White House spokesperson said Sunday.

Artificial intelligence has been a breakout star in the opening days of COP28, the United Nations climate summit in Dubai.

Four family members, including two children, were stabbed to death at a home in Queens early Sunday, police said. The suspect also started a fire at the house and then stabbed two police officers who arrived at the scene before one of them shot him dead, according to New York Police Department officials.

Vice President Kamala Harris said Saturday that the United States fiercely opposes forcibly relocating residents of the Gaza Strip outside the enclave as Israel resumes its bombardment of Hamas terrorists, or in the days and weeks after the war eventually ends.

Former President Donald Trump rallied his campaign volunteers for Iowa’s Republican Party caucuses on Jan. 15, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made good on his pledge to visit all of the state’s 99 counties.

More than 100 teens and young adults were at an Aurora, Colorado, house party early Saturday when gunfire erupted, wounding four people. Four people were shot and taken to hospitals: an 18-year-old woman, two 19-year-old men and a 17-year-old boy, police said.