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PARIS — Four young children and one adult were stabbed in a knife attack in a French alpine town on Thursday, police said. The suspect was arrested but a motive was unclear, police said. Police said the children were as young as three years old and that three of those …

Hundreds of U.S.-bound passengers who were stranded in Russia are en route to San Francisco on a replacement flight, Air India said. The flight took off from Magadan, Russia, at 10:27 a.m. local time Thursday (7:27 p.m. Wednesday ET) and is expected to arrive in San Francisco at 12:15 a.m. …

OCALA, Fla. — A white woman charged with fatally shooting her Black neighbor through a door has a history of harassing area children and using racial slurs against them, neighbors said Wednesday. Susan Louise Lorincz, 58, was arrested Tuesday on charges of manslaughter with a firearm, culpable negligence, battery and …

Pro wrestling legend and pop culture fixture the Iron Sheik, who embraced his role as “one of the most notorious villains” in the entertainment genre’s history, has died, his team said Wednesday. He was 81. The announcement was made on the wrestler’s popular Twitter feed, which has more than 640,000 …

DES MOINES, Iowa — Former Vice President Mike Pence, who certified the 2020 election results under threat from supporters of then-President Donald Trump, kicked off a bid for the Oval Office on Wednesday. On his 64th birthday, Pence, the former Indiana governor and six-term congressman, released a launch video taking …

A woman accused of fatally shooting her Florida neighbor in a dispute that involved the slain woman’s children was arrested Tuesday, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office said. Susan Louise Lorincz, 58, was arrested on charges of manslaughter with a firearm, culpable negligence, battery and two counts of assault, the sheriff’s …

WASHINGTON — A band of 11 House conservative rabble-rousers on Tuesday took the rare step of joining all Democrats to block a pair of GOP bills to protect gas stoves to express their anger over the debt deal cut by Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden. The procedural vote was …

A lawyer for the Republican billionaire donor Harlan Crow has agreed to speak with staff members of the Senate Judiciary Committee about Crow’s relationship with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, according to a letter obtained by NBC News. Michael D. Bopp, Crow’s attorney, told Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., …

This week’s expansion of the Republican presidential primary field will yield two of the most direct internal challenges to date to Donald Trump’s leadership in the White House. It also could further solidify Trump’s chances of winning yet another contested GOP presidential contest. First up will be former New Jersey …

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is investigating whether migrants recently flown by private plane to Sacramento without prior arrangements were part of a “scheme” by the state of Florida. “We’re looking at the movement in two separate instances of asylum-seekers that were originally contacted in…El Paso, Texas, and then moved …