Nobel Laureate María Corina Machado has left Norway, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store told Bloomberg on Wednesday.

Machado’s whereabouts are currently unknown, and Store provided no further details. Spokesperson Magalli Meda said by text message that Machado “is taking care of her health” and that she needs some time off.

The ...Read more

The U.S. is preparing a fresh round of sanctions on Russia’s energy sector to increase the pressure on Moscow should President Vladimir Putin reject a peace agreement with Ukraine, according to people familiar with the matter.

The U.S. is considering options, such as targeting vessels in Russia’s so-called shadow fleet of tankers used to ...Read more

Australian authorities charged the surviving gunman in Sydney Hanukkah attack that killed 15 with 59 offenses, including murder and terrorism.

The 24 year-old, who’s been identified as Naveed Akram, remains under police guard in the hospital, New South Wales police said in a statement Wednesday. He was shot by authorities during the attack, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When Greg heard about the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner, and the alleged involvement of their son Nick, the news struck a painfully familiar chord.

It wasn't the violence that resonated, but rather the heartache and desperation that comes with loving a family member who suffers from an illness that the best efforts and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When Greg heard about the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner, and the alleged involvement of their son Nick, the news struck a painfully familiar chord.

It wasn't the violence that resonated, but rather the heartache and desperation that comes with loving a family member who suffers from an illness that the best efforts and ...Read more

John Weiser, a doctor and researcher, has treated people with HIV since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. He joined the CDC’s HIV prevention team in 2011 to help lead its Medical Monitoring Project, the only in-depth survey of HIV across the United States. The project has shaped the country’s response to the epidemic over two ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — A shop owner facing threats shutters the clothing store that had been in his family for generations.

A leader of a citrus growers association is kidnapped and killed after refusing mob demands for a cut of profits.

Enraged peasant farmers fed up with paying graft turn on cartel thugs in a bloody showdown.

In Mexico, these ...Read more

Nancy Hunt arrived at an emergency room from a Genesis HealthCare nursing home in Pennsylvania in such dreadful shape, including maggots infesting her gangrened foot, that the hospital called an elder abuse hotline and then the police, her son alleged in a lawsuit.

Hunt died five days later. Her death certificate said the foot injury was a “...Read more

CHICAGO — “I’ve always had this idealistic impression about the United States,” says musician Wanees Zarour, who is co-director of the Chicago Immigrant Orchestra. “This country is diverse and embraces multiculturalism, to an extent. So the fact that I’m not white — I’m brown — shouldn’t pose any issues from a security ...Read more

In a move that reverses nearly a decade of practice, California wildlife officials have quietly begun to allow killing mountain lions in order to protect another iconic native — bighorn sheep.

Though limited to the Eastern Sierra — the steep, rugged home of a rare type of the wild sheep — it marks a sea change for California, where ...Read more

MIAMI — At 3 pm on a Tuesday in July, a man from Georgia contacted the Collier County Sheriff’s Office to report a woman with purple hair sitting in a car on the south side of Route 41, across from the gates of Alligator Alcatraz. She was live on TikTok, recording the license plates of vehicles entering and leaving the facility.

“She’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two partners are each taking the lead in a dance to celebrate America’s 250th birthday next year: Rosie Rios, chair of a bipartisan commission created by Congress to plan events to commemorate the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and President Donald Trump, chair of a White House task force that is making its own ...Read more

Citizens of Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica will face new restrictions on entry into the United States after President Donald Trump on Tuesday expanded a partial travel ban to include 15 new countries as of Jan. 1.

In adding the two eastern Caribbean nations to the list, Trump cited concerns about their Citizenship by Investment, or CBI, ...Read more

Lake Mead may be facing historic shortages, but officials from the Colorado River state that uses the most water are celebrating unprecedented water savings.

At a briefing for reporters at Tuesday’s Colorado River Water Users Association conference at Caesars Palace, leaders from California’s biggest water districts said the state is on ...Read more

Citizens of Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica will face new restrictions on entry into the United States after President Donald Trump on Tuesday expanded a partial travel ban to include 15 new countries as of Jan. 1.

In adding the two eastern Caribbean nations to the list, Trump cited concerns about their Citizenship by Investment, or CBI, ...Read more

The House passed a bill Tuesday that would give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authority to require retiring power plants to remain open if their closure could pose reliability concerns.

Under the bill, known as the Power Plant Reliability Act, FERC would determine whether a plant scheduled to retire should remain open if a complaint ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Tuesday designated the government of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro a foreign terrorist organization and ordered “a total and complete” blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers moving in and out of the South American country.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump claimed that the “illegitimate Maduro Regime” stole ...Read more

Canada wants to work more closely with China to stop the chemicals used to create the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl from reaching North America, said Prime Minister Mark Carney’s point person for fighting the opioid crisis.

“We’re looking to collaborate with China, because it’s not an indictment against the Chinese government, per se...Read more

Nick Reiner is said to have stormed out of Conan O’Brien’s holiday party after a tense moment with Bill Hader, the night before his parents were found stabbed to death in their Los Angeles home.

It all started at Saturday night’s annual event, where 32-year-old Reiner, who now faces murder charges in connection with the slayings, ...Read more

It was late in the night when Yisroel Goldstein received a call from a relative notifying him of the shooting at Bondi Beach.

After that, the rabbi and former director of a suburban San Diego County synagogue was glued to his phone, filtering calls and messages for updates on his brother-in-law, his niece and other family members who ...Read more