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Slovakia will sign an agreement on nuclear power cooperation with the United States next week, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Saturday, as the country moves toward a deal to build a ‌new nuclear power unit with U.S. help.

A Montana woman who was illegally feeding multiple bears on the family property pleaded guilty to one count of felony criminal endangerment and received what some might consider a light sentence, considering the resultant death of five bears.

DUBAI – Iran's authorities indicated on Saturday they could intensify their crackdown on the biggest anti-government demonstrations in years, with the Revolutionary Guards blaming unrest on terrorists and vowing to safeguard the governing system.

With more than 1,000 protests this weekend amid heightened tensions over two recent shootings by federal immigration enforcement agents, this might have seemed like a good opportunity for the Justice Department to deploy its "peacemaking" unit that for decades de-escalated confrontations at demonstrations and helped prevent deadly police responses.

SAVAGE, Minn. – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Australia and several other countries would join a meeting of finance ministers from the Group of Seven advanced economies that he is hosting Monday in Washington to discuss critical minerals.

DENVER — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday determined Colorado cannot order the closure of coal-fired power plants under the Clean Air Act, and, therefore, the agency will deny the state’s plan to reduce the haze that clouds views at Rocky Mountain National Park and other federal lands. The move is part of the Trump administration’s push to make sure no federal regulations stand in ...

NEW YORK – A U.S. judge on Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from freezing access by five Democratic-led states to more than $10 billion of federal funds for child care and family assistance based on what it said were concerns about fraud.

LOS ANGELES – The workers’ uniforms are smudged with stains earned underneath a car, wrench in hand.

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MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota’s top prosecutors moved Friday to preserve a state role in reviewing the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis, repeatedly emphasizing their actions were not a challenge to federal authorities but a response to being cut off from evidence they say is essential for transparency. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and Minnesota Attorney General ...

BARTOW, Fla. — The state of Florida announced Friday that its testing has uncovered a variety of toxins at amounts above federal standards in 16 infant formulas on the market. But officials during a news event in Bartow led by Gov. Ron DeSantis did not share specific testing data, methodology or contaminant levels found in each brand. The broad findings are the result of a state testing ...

BEIRUT — Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivered a defiant speech on Friday, excoriating protesters as "saboteurs" and insisting the Islamic Republic would "not back down," even as the country remains in the throes of a full communications blackout amid growing antigovernment demonstrations. Speaking before a crowd that periodically broke into chants of "Death to America," ...

MINNEAPOLIS – The White House on Friday reposted on social media a new video taken from the cellphone of the Immigration officer who fatally shot a Minnesota woman in her car this week, adding to the documentation of an incident that has sparked days of nationwide protests.

A guide, who spends most days in Yellowstone National Park, on Thursday enjoyed a welcome snowfall that softened the roads for bison travel.

Kyiv’s mayor made an unprecedented call to residents to seek temporary refuge outside the Ukrainian capital after a Russian aerial barrage triggered widespread shortages amid frigid temperatures.