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BOSTON — Sanctuary cities are officially banned in New Hampshire as a set of laws signed by Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte in May took effect while the country celebrated the transition into 2026. “New Hampshire has made it clear that we are not a sanctuary for criminals and we will not go the way of Massachusetts and their billion-dollar illegal immigration crisis,” Gov. Ayotte told the Herald ...

SEOUL – North Korea fired several ballistic missiles from its capital Pyongyang towards the sea off its east coast at around 7:50 a.m. local time on Sunday, South Korea's military said.

Will Smith and his company are facing allegations of sexual harassment by former “America’s Got Talent” contestant Brian King Joseph, who says he was subjected to “predatory behavior” during the Oscar winner’s 2025 tour.

A recent change to how the U.S. Postal Service says it postmarks letters could discount the ballots of thousands of last-minute voters.

LOS ANGELES — In the pantheon of parade float achievement, world-record titles are coveted. The longest parade float, a paper dragon in Gutian, China, spanned a half-mile in 2012. The heaviest, dubbed the "Gnarly Crankin' K9 Wave Maker," was an actual swimming pool on wheels that weighed in at nearly 150,000 pounds. Faced with some stiff competition, one savvy float-building team at this ...

The harrowing news had spread across the country in the fall of 2022: Four college students were found stabbed to death at a house near the University of Idaho campus. Mel Kohberger, who was preparing to start a new job as a mental health therapist in New Jersey, could not help feeling a sense of alarm.

CARACAS, Venezuela – President Donald Trump said Saturday at his Mar-a-Lago Club that the United States will control Venezuela for an unspecified period after a U.S. operation captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.

Hundreds of flights in Puerto Rico and in the Caribbean have been canceled on Jan. 3 after the United States conducted large-scale strikes in Venezuela and captured the country’s leader, Nicolás Maduro.

Evangeline Lilly shared a concerning health update with fans following a concussion she suffered in Hawaii in May. The Ant-Man actress revealed in an Instagram video Saturday that she suffered brain damage in an incident that left her bruised and bloodied, as she fainted and fell face-first into a boulder on the beach.

DUBAI – Yemen’s southern separatists welcomed on Saturday a call for dialogue by Saudi Arabia to end a recent military escalation, a potential sign of an easing in an unusually public confrontation between the kingdom and the United Arab Emirates.

WASHINGTON – A campaign funding group aligned with Republican President Donald Trump, Make America Great Again Inc., entered 2026 with an almost $300 million stockpile ahead of this year’s midterm elections, a filing showed on Friday.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Friday blocked U.S. photonics firm HieFo Corp's $3 million acquisition of assets in New Jersey-based aerospace and defense specialist Emcore, citing national security and China-related concerns.

KYIV, Ukraine – President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine and the United States are 90% of the way toward an agreement to end the war with Russia. Within the 10% still in dispute is who will control Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.

More oil tankers are turning away from Venezuela as the U.S. threatens to seize vessels transporting oil that helps fund the regime of President Nicolas Maduro. At least seven ships have reversed course or halted at sea, according to ship movements tracked Friday by Bloomberg. That adds to four others that turned away in the immediate aftermath of U.S. forces boarding the vessel Skipper in ...

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland – Scrutiny is intensifying over the safety arrangements at a Swiss bar that burst into flames during a New Year's Eve party, killing at least 40, as prosecutors said the blaze likely began when sparkling candles were held too close to a ceiling.

A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that California’s ban on openly carrying firearms in most parts of the state was unconstitutional.