The United States will withdraw more than 1,000 troops from Niger as the African nation deepens ties with Russia. A citizens' petition seeking the removal a progressive district attorney in Austin under Texas' recently enacted "rogue prosecutor" statute is proceeding after a ruling by a local judge this week. President Joe Biden on Saturday signed the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act hours after its passage in the Senate, renewing a controversial but reformed warrantless surveillance law. David Pryor, Arkansas' 39th governor for two terms and its U.S. senator for three terms afterward, died of natural causes Saturday in Little Rock, Ark., his family announced. He was 89. A potential U.S. ban of the popular social media video app TikTok inched closer to reality Saturday after the House passed the legislation tucked within a long-sought foreign aid package. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Saturday passed a long-delayed $95 billion foreign aid package that includes funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Officials in Maryland have opened a third shipping channel near the site of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. The Environmental Protection Agency has designated two PFAS substances, commonly known as "forever chemicals" as hazardous substances under the United States' Superfund law. Fire officials say fireplace embers likely triggered a three-alarm blaze at the historic Timberline Lodge on Oregon's Mount Hood, made famous by its appearance in Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror film "The Shining." The University of Southern California will now have no outside speakers or honorees at the school's graduation ceremony following a controversy earlier this week over its valedictorian address. CBS has opted not to renew "CSI: Vegas" and "So Help Me Todd" for additional seasons. A "senior skip day" gathering at a Maryland park turned violent, leaving five people shot and one in critical condition, according to police. Nine people, including six children, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza Strip refugee haven of Rafah on Saturday, local Palestinian officials said. North Korea said Saturday it has conducted a cruise missile test with what its state-run media called a "super-large warhead." Overnight explosions at an Iraqi military base not far from the capital Baghdad on Saturday left one person dead and at least eight others with degrees of injuries, officials said. Beyonce's first country record, "Cowboy Carter," is the No. 1 album in the United States for a second weekend. Nearly three-fourths of workers at Volkswagen's Chattanooga factory in Tennessee have voted to join the United Auto Workers in what the union hailed as an historic landslide victory. A man who set himself on fire outside the New York City courtroom where former President Donald Trump is facing a criminal trial has died of his injuries, police said Saturday. Actor Jessica Lange turns 75 and actor Andy Serkis turns 60, among the famous birthdays for April 20. On April 20, 1999, two teenage boys killed 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., before turning their guns on themselves. More Recent Articles |
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