Gang violence continues to be responsible for hundreds of deaths and injuries in Haiti, where attacks by criminal groups have slowed in recent months in the capital but have intensified against farming communities and other rural areas outside of Port-au-Prince.

During the third quarter of this year, July 1 to Sept. 30, at least 1,247 people ...Read more

ATLANTA — The rate of international students enrolling in Georgia’s public universities dropped significantly this fall, a possible sign that some of President Donald Trump’s policies are turning foreign students away from the U.S.

Releasing its most recent data on Tuesday, the University System of Georgia saw a 1.1% increase in out-of-...Read more

A never-before-seen email written by Jeffrey Epstein says President Donald Trump once spent hours with one of the victims of the notorious late sex trafficker, according to documents released Wednesday by congressional Democrats.

Epstein told convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell in a 2011 email that Trump spent significant time at Epstein’s...Read more

Donald Trump "spent hours at my house" and "knew about the girls," Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier accused of orchestrating sex trafficking of young girls, wrote in private emails House Democrats released Wednesday.

"Of course he knew about the girls," Epstein said of Trump in an email to author and journalist Michael Wolff in early ...Read more

Donald Trump wrote to Israeli President Isaac Herzog and urged him to legally pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who’s facing charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.

While the U.S. president has previously called for Netanyahu to be pardoned, including while speaking to the Israeli parliament last month, this is the first known ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s reelection comes with a whopping $43,000 raise to bring her salary to $250,000 next year.

Wu and the City Council will both receive pay hikes to start off the new year, thanks to legislation passed by the Council in 2022.

While the Council has seen pay hikes annually since 2024 — with its pay jumping ...Read more

BELÉM, Brazil — The expansive halls of the Amazon's newly built climate summit hub echoed with the hum of air conditioners and the footsteps of delegates from around the world — scientists, diplomats, Indigenous leaders and energy executives, all converging for two frenetic weeks of negotiations.

Then Gov. Gavin Newsom rounded the corner,...Read more

A cargo plane belonging to Turkey’s Ministry of Defense crashed in Georgia on Tuesday, killing all 20 people onboard.

The C130 aircraft was flying from Azerbaijan to Turkey when it crashed in a mountainous area near Sighnagi around 5 kilometers from the Azeri border, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

The plane disappeared from radar minutes...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump wrote to Israeli President Isaac Herzog and urged him to legally pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who’s facing charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.

While Trump has previously called for Netanyahu to be pardoned, including while speaking to the Israeli parliament last month, this is the first ...Read more

It’s no secret that Pennsylvania’s two most powerful Democrats do not get along.

Sen. John Fetterman and Gov. Josh Shapiro are stylistic opposites who have butted heads over the years. Now Fetterman, in his newly released memoir "Unfettered," is recounting his version of why that is.

By Fetterman’s telling, it stems from their time ...Read more

BURTON, Mich. — After living in the Utah desert for two years, Jake Sanford returned to Michigan a different person.

Gone was the lovable goofball, the high school cut-up who would do anything for a laugh.

In his stead was a man ravaged by crystal meth, said friends. He also bore something just as encompassing as a drug addiction — an ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Philip Vance has been waiting four years for the state to decide whether his murder conviction should be overturned.

The 45-year-old is serving a life sentence for the killing of a South St. Paul grocery clerk in 2002. Vance maintains he’s innocent. He points to the lack of physical evidence in the case and the fact that some ...Read more

After Hurricane Melissa’s exceptionally strong winds subsided, the roots of breadfruit trees clung deep into the fertile Jamaican soil — offering hope and a step toward food security in the future.

For the past 16 years, Mary and Mike McLaughlin, Jamaican natives who now live in Winnetka, Illinois, have helped plant almost half a million ...Read more

Julio Rojas was 16 when he entered the United States from El Salvador back in 2016, presenting himself to authorities at the southern border in search of legal asylum, “because of the gangs,” he said.

He went to school for two years, found a girlfriend. She had legal residence, and they had a son, born an American citizen, who is now age ...Read more

The distress that Will Bynum later recognized as shame settled over him nearly immediately.

Bynum, then in his second year of residency training as a family medicine physician, was wrapping up a long shift when he was called into an emergency delivery. To save the baby’s life, he used a vacuum device, which applies suction to assist with ...Read more

Thailand has suspended a peace process with Cambodia that was a condition for tariff negotiations with U.S. President Donald Trump, after Thai soldiers were injured in a land-mine blast near the border.

The suspension will remain in place until the Thai armed forces deem “hostilities” have ceased, Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul told ...Read more

It's no secret that Pennsylvania's two most powerful Democrats do not get along.

Sen. John Fetterman and Gov. Josh Shapiro are stylistic opposites who have butted heads over the years. Now Fetterman, in his newly released memoir, Unfettered, is recounting his version of why that is.

By Fetterman's telling, it stems from their time serving ...Read more

Days after Donald Trump’s party lost several key election contests that centered on cost-of-living concerns, the president floated the prospect of a 50-year mortgage to help voters tackle one of their top concerns: housing affordability.

“All it means is you pay less per month,” Trump said in an interview that aired on Monday.

Yet the ...Read more