A $42,000 sculpture by the artist Jeff Koons was accidentally knocked over and shattered at an art show in Miami on Thursday. An Islamic State official believed to have been involved in planning attacks in Syria was captured Saturday in U.S. military raid. An owl who became a celebrity after he escaped from the Central Park Zoo in New York City and defied capture for weeks will be allowed to keep his freedom. For now. The operator of several popular boardwalk games down the Jersey Shore has been banned for scamming beachgoers out of prizes, the state's Attorney General Matthew Platkin announced. North Korea on Saturday fired a likely long-range ballistic missile that is believed to have fallen into the waters off Japan's exclusive economic zone, the Japanese government said. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday accused Russia of committing war crimes during its year-long invasion of Ukraine. The striking graduate students at Temple University have reached an agreement with the school that could end a more than two-week long strike. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday warned Chinese officials during a meeting Saturday that there will be "consequences" if Beijing aids Russia in its war in Ukraine. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says the city is taking steps to remove homeless people who have been sleeping in O'Hare International Airport, calling their presence a risk to security. Power levels in Terminal 1 of John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City were returned to normal on Saturday after the facility was temporarily closed due to major outage this week. More than 20,000 students at Michigan State University have signed a petition to delay the return of classes after three students died in a mass shooting this week. United Nations officials on Saturday said they were "shocked" after 18 people, believed to be migrants from Afghanistan, were found dead in an abandoned truck in Bulgaria. Former President Jimmy Carter, who led the country from 1977 to 1981, has chosen to receive hospice care at home "to spend his remaining time," the Carter Center announced Saturday. At least 17 people were hospitalized and hundreds more evacuated after a fire spread through a high-rise apartment building in Silver Spring, Md., authorities said Saturday. Nine children, including a five-year-old boy, were shot and injured outside a Georgia gas station, authorities said Saturday. Avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has been detected in Santa Barbara County, Calif., as worries about the disease's spread to mammals continued to mount. An estimated five million people began descending on Rio de Janeiro Saturday as Brazil's Carnival celebration returned at full blast following a two-year hiatus. A group of Chinese delegates visited Taiwan on Saturday, marking the first official group from China to visit the country since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The Biden administration has moved to reestablish the legal underpinnings used to enforce federal mercury emissions standards for power plants first set during the Obama administration. The body of professional soccer player Christian Atsu was discovered under the rubble of the earthquake-damaged building where lived in Turkey, his agent confirmed Saturday. "Vampire Diaries" alum Paul Wesley has filed for divorce from jewelry designer Ines de Ramon nearly a year after they split up. Warner Bros. has canceled its long-running, legal-themed series, "Judge Mathis" and "The People's Court." Baseball legend and sports broadcaster Tim McCarver has died in Memphis, Major League Baseball announced. He was 81. SZA's "SOS" is back at the top of the U.S. album chart for an eighth week. Songwriter Kyle Jacobs, the husband of country music star Kellie Pickler, has died at home of an apparent suicide, according to the Nashville Police Department. |
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