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ISLAMABAD – Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed to an immediate ceasefire during talks in Doha, both sides said on Sunday, after a week of fierce border clashes, the worst violence between the South Asian neighbours since the Taliban seized power in Kabul in 2021.

NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione’s lawyers said his federal death penalty case should be dismissed because comments made by President Donald Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi and other top officials have damaged his ability to get a fair trial. Mangione, 27, is accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive Brian Thompson in December outside a midtown Manhattan hotel. He has pleaded ...

The Federal Aviation Administration will allow Boeing to increase production of its 737 Max, clearing a hurdle the regulator put in place after a nearly catastrophic panel blowout last year. The FAA capped Boeing’s Max production at 38 planes per month after a door-sized panel flew off an Alaska Airlines 737 Max in January 2024, revealing production lapses in Boeing’s Renton, Washington, ...

There are two disturbances in the Atlantic basin, one of which could become the next named storm of the season in the Caribbean in the next week or so. The National Hurricane Center currently gives both disturbances a low chance of developing anytime soon. As of 2 p.m. Eastern time Friday, the disturbance nearest to the Caribbean had no chance of strengthening into a tropical depression or ...

The lone independent federal agency responsible for ensuring safety at U.S. nuclear weapons sites – including Hanford in Washington state – will lose its ability to issue recommendations for safer work by January if the Trump administration does not replenish its board, which this month dwindles to one member.

CHICAGO – A U.S. judge in Chicago on Friday ordered federal law enforcement officers involved in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the city to wear body cameras, citing concerns they were not complying with a previous court order governing their interactions with protesters.

Inadequate funding over the past 25 years has left needed road maintenance uncompleted and could result in higher future repair costs, Washington transportation officials said this week.

LOS ANGELES — In a rare public rebuke, the Los Angeles City Council pressed the city’s top lawyer to abandon her attempt to halt a federal judge’s order prohibiting Los Angeles Police Department officers from targeting journalists with crowd control weapons. One day before “No Kings” demonstrations against the Trump administration were set to launch in L.A. and elsewhere, the council voted ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — For decades, state and federal officials have been warning about the kind of catastrophic damage wrought by the storm that hit Western Alaska over the weekend. But those predictions, along with hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for mitigation efforts, were not enough to prevent dozens of homes from floating away when struck with the remnants of Typhoon ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration in court filings submitted Friday said that it was holding off firing thousands of federal workers in order to comply with a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge in California. The filings came ahead of a 6 p.m. Eastern time Friday hearing on the status of the TRO preventing the Trump administration from carrying out the reductions in ...

False rumors have spread that there will be a "No Kings" protest tomorrow morning at Riverfront Park. 

President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the more than seven-year prison sentence of former U.S. Representative George Santos for fraud and identity theft, ordering his immediate release.