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Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Authorities in southern China said Thursday that 39 people have died in flooding from tropical storm …

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi will appear before a House of Representatives committee today, where lawmakers are expected to press her on the Justice Department’s ‌handling of files involving the late financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Bondi’s testimony before the House’s judiciary committee comes as lawmakers, including some …

From tech titans to Wall Street power brokers and foreign dignitaries, a who’s who of powerful men make appearances in the huge trove of documents released late last week by the U.S. Justice Department in connection with its investigations of Jeffrey Epstein. All have denied having anything to do with …

Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The United States carried out airstrikes against Islamic State militants in northwest Nigeria at the request …

Portable gaming systems are making a comeback this year — but the landscape looks very different from their heyday a couple of decades ago. This year marked the first time all three major gaming hardware companies — Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft — have handheld devices on the market. And they’re …

Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. The Israeli military carried out powerful airstrikes in two villages in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, witnesses said, pressing a campaign of near-daily attacks in the border region …

Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice-presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84. Cheney died Monday night due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, according to a …

The video call is grainy, but it’s crystal clear what the person on the phone is trying to sell: illicit drugs, packaged and ready to be shipped to Canada.  The seller, who goes by the name Kim, says he sells cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA and nitazenes, a powerful class of synthetic …

Deadly and destructive wildfires are tearing through the Los Angeles area, and powerful winds are literally fanning the flames.  As of Wednesday afternoon, four fast-moving blazes had killed two people, injured many and destroyed more than 1,000 structures, while threatening 28,000 more and forcing at least 70,000 people to evacuate. …

A strong earthquake shook a high-altitude region of western China and areas of Nepal on Tuesday, damaging hundreds of houses, littering streets with rubble and killing at least 126 people in the autonomous Chinese region of Tibet. Many others were trapped as dozens of aftershocks shook the remote region. Rescue …