The Associated Press

Gang warfare has increasingly plagued Haiti since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. Criminal control has worsened and today the innocent are often killed, raped and held for ransom.

The historic heat began blasting the Southwestern U.S. in June, stretching from Texas across New Mexico and Arizona and into California's desert.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for Sunday's bombing, which killed dozens and wounded nearly 200 people.

The former president claimed that references in news articles or by the network's hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as "the Big Lie" was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler.

The attack tore through a rally by supporters of a hard-line cleric and political leader in the country's northwestern Bajur district. Nearly 200 others were wounded in the blast.

Thousands of supporters of the junta that took over Niger in a coup this week marched through the streets of the capital waving Russian flags, chanting Vladimir Putin's name, and denouncing France.

African leaders are leaving two days of meetings with Vladimir Putin with little to show for their requests to resume a deal that kept grain flowing from Ukraine and to find a path to end the war.

A historic heat wave that has gripped the U.S. Southwest throughout July, blasting residents and baking surfaces like brick, is beginning to abate with the late arrival of monsoon rains.

Arkansas is temporarily blocked from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing "harmful" materials to minors.

Russian authorities say three Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow in the early hours on Sunday, injuring one person and prompting a temporary closure for traffic of one of four airports near the capital.

The 26-year-old American won the 800-meter freestyle on Saturday at the world championships to become the first swimmer to win six golds in the same event at worlds.

The flag belonging to Shigeyoshi Mutsuda was returned to his son from a U.S. war museum where it had been on display for 29 years. "It's a miracle," 83-year-old Toshihiro Mutsuda said.