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A Southwest Airlines passenger opened a plane’s emergency exit door, got onto the wing and was caught on the ground as the plane was readying to pull back from the gate at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on Sunday night.  

Rosalynn Carter was set to lie in repose at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta on Monday evening as the funeral for the formidable first lady approaches later this week.  

Israel and Hamas agreed to extend a cease-fire, which was initially due to end Tuesday morning, in their devastating war following tense negotiations over the release of more hostages held by the militant group in Gaza.

 President Joe Biden has rescheduled his Colorado trip and will arrive in the state for a two-day visit Tuesday, marking his second trip to Colorado this year, the White House announced over the weekend.

North Korea appears to have deployed soldiers and weapons to guard posts near the border that were shut in a 2018 deal with South Korea as tensions between the neighbors ratchet up in the wake of Pyongyang’s recent spy satellite launch.

Elon Musk, under fire for amplifying antisemitic content on X, accompanied Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a visit to a town devastated by the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks.

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia – When lawmakers return to the Capitol this week from their Thanksgiving break, the prospects for sending further aid to U.S. allies in Ukraine and Israel will depend on Congress solving an international crisis much closer to home – on the United States’ southern border.

Change in water rights is being actively resisted by many of the agribusinesses, multinational companies and big landowners who depend on enormous amounts of water.

President Joe Biden on Sunday hailed the release of Avigail Idan, who turned 4 years old during her seven weeks in Hamas captivity and was the first U.S. citizen to be freed by the group. The president vowed to keep working to secure freedom for others in captivity and to extend the pause in the fighting.

Nearly 14 million people were under various winter weather alerts Sunday as a post-Thanksgiving snowstorm moved over the Rockies and Central Plains and travelers trekked home after the holiday, forecasters said.

Russia launched a fierce swarm of explosive drones at Kyiv and other targets early Saturday, interrupting a weeks-long lull in the Ukrainian capital and adding to its darkening mood.

No one else volunteered as tribute over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend as Lionsgate's "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes" took home the box office title for the second straight week.

Below the shattered windows of the high-rise hotels in downtown Acapulco, people walk alongside hills of garbage bags filled with rotting food and debris. Volunteer firefighters from distant states clear the waste, wiping away swarms of cockroaches from their arms.

It’s a perennial annoyance during quiet weekends in U.S. suburbia: the roar of the neighbor’s lawn mower, the whine of a trimmer, the howl of the leaf blower.

A temporary truce between Hamas and Israel held for a second day Saturday, but a challenge by Hamas to Israel's implementation of the agreement delayed the planned release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners into the night, underscoring the fragility of the deal.A day after the two sides successfully exchanged the first groups 

In May, Marielle Williamson, along with the advocacy group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, filed a federal lawsuit against her school administrators and the Los Angeles Unified School District, alleging that her First Amendment rights were violated when school officials barred her from sharing material about plant-based milk options without also including information on dairy milk. 

Eric Darnell Wright Jr. remembers his father driving down Muriel Avenue in Compton for Thanksgiving dinner. It was there that his now 86-year old grandmother, Katie Wright, would prepare large meals for all her kin, including her son Eric Lynn Wright — better known as the late N.W.A rapper Eazy-E.

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of murdering George Floyd during a 2020 arrest that set off a wave of protests, was stabbed at a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona, on Friday, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.