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FBI Agent-turned-traitor Robert Hanssen, who spied for the old Soviet Union and later the Russians, died Monday in the cell where he was serving 15 consecutive life sentences for betraying his country, federal prison officials said. Hanssen, 79, was “found unresponsive” around 6:55 a.m. at the federal “Supermax” prison in …

Nearly 80 girls were poisoned and hospitalized in two separate attacks at their primary schools in northern Afghanistan, a local education official said Sunday. It is thought to be the first time this kind of assault has happened since the Taliban swept to power in August 2021 and began their …

An 18-year-old Pennsylvania man was shot and killed after he allegedly hit two state troopers with his car early Sunday, police said. Troopers said they were trying to make contact with Anthony Allegrini Jr. when he allegedly struck two of them after he “failed to yield” Sunday, Pennsylvania State Police …

The Washington, D.C., region was rattled Sunday afternoon by a blast that officials said was a sonic boom from fighter jets scrambling to investigate a private plane’s unexpected flight path. Pilots from the Capital Guardians, a unit of the 113th Wing of the D.C. National Guard, determined that the pilot was …

A mother and her teenage daughter were charged in connection with the murder of the latter’s 71-year-old grandmother in Maryland, police said. Candace Craig, 44, was charged with first and second degree murder while her 19-year-old daughter, Salia Hardy, was charged with accessory after the fact, according to a news …

SINGAPORE — China’s defense minister defended sailing a warship across the path of an American destroyer and Canadian frigate transiting the Taiwan Strait, telling a gathering of some of the world’s top defense officials in Singapore on Sunday that such so-called “freedom of navigation” patrols are a provocation to China. …

Evacuations and shelter-in-place orders remained in place for residents and businesses around a lightning-sparked tank fire that sent a plume of smoke over Lake Charles, Louisiana, on Saturday. By evening, Louisiana State Police determined a lightning strike was the cause of the single-tank fire at the Calcasieu Refining Co. tank …

NEW DELHI, India —Rescuers ended a search for survivors as the death toll from a train crash that killed almost 300 people and injured hundreds more in one of the worst rail disasters in India’s history, officials said. At least 288 people died on Friday and over 800 were injured …

President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law a bill extending the debt ceiling for two years, averting an economically disastrous debt default ahead of Monday’s deadline. The Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 suspends the public debt limit through January 1, 2025, after the 2024 presidential elections. “If we had failed to …

The Blue family, Sacramento Les Robinson had to leave a family cookout to compose himself. A cousin told him to look up an ancestor on his phone — Daniel Blue. Robinson had never heard of him, but a search revealed the longtime pastor in the Sacramento area, who was integral …