The Associated Press

China's leaders effectively acknowledged the struggling economy won't hit its official 5.5% growth target this year and said Thursday they will try to prop up sagging consumer demand.

The mayor's announcement allows officials to mobilize personnel and resources and cut through red tape to get ahead of a public health crisis reminiscent of the AIDS epidemic that devastated the city.

Bernard Cribbins, a beloved British entertainer whose seven-decade career ranged from the bawdy "Carry On" comedies to children's television and "Doctor Who," has died.

Teams are still searching for people missing in record floods that wiped out entire communities. Kentucky's governor said 16 people have died, a toll he expected to grow as the rain keeps falling.

The agreement Thursday capped a months-long bidding war and arrives one day after Spirit's attempt to merge with Frontier Airlines fell apart. The deal still needs approval from antitrust regulators.

Gun manufacturers have taken in more than $1 billion from selling the weapons over the past decade, at times marketing them as a way for young men to prove their masculinity.

The man accused of opening fire on a July Fourth parade in suburban Chicago has been indicted on 21 first-degree murder counts, 48 counts of attempted murder and 48 counts of aggravated battery,

The pope apologized to Indigenous peoples for abuses in church-run residential schools. Canada's response suggests that reconciliation over the fraught history is still a work in progress.

Russian forces launched missile strikes on Ukraine's Kyiv and Chernihiv regions while Ukrainian officials, meanwhile, announced an operation to liberate occupied territory in the country's south.

Russia's foreign minister and France's president are visiting this week along with visits by U.S. officials in what some say is the most intense competition for influence there since the Cold War.

Joe Nathan James Jr. was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend nearly three decades ago. He died by lethal injection Thursday night despite the victim's family's preference he serve life in prison.

In a speech marking the 69th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice, Kim said his country is ready to use nuclear weapons in potential military conflicts with the U.S. or South Korea.