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A 14-year-old was fatally shot in the back Sunday by a South Carolina convenience store owner who wrongly accused him of shoplifting and chased him after a confrontation, authorities said. Rick Chow, 58, was arrested Monday and charged with murder in the death of Cyrus Carmack-Belton. “He did not shoplift …

The head of the U.S. Border Patrol is retiring after more than three decades with the agency, and after helping oversee policy changes this month aimed at curbing irregular crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border following the end of Title 42 pandemic restrictions. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Troy …

A woman who had been feared missing has been contacted and is safe, officials said Tuesday. Authorities in Cheatham County, Tennessee, had earlier said Nikki Alcaraz was believed to be on a cross-country trip with her boyfriend and was considered missing. Alcaraz was seen at a Walmart store in Redding, …

WASHINGTON — As criticism builds in Republican ranks over the debt ceiling deal struck by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and President Joe Biden, some hard-line conservatives have begun floating the idea of toppling the speaker. On a House Freedom Caucus call Monday night, Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., floated using …

Many of the biggest names in artificial intelligence have signed a short statement warning that their technology could spell the end of the human race. Published Tuesday, the full statement states: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics …

The violence was the latest incident as tensions soared over the past weekend when ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo tried to block recently elected ethnic Albanian officials from entering municipal buildings. Kosovo police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd and let the new officials into the offices. Serbia put the country’s …

New Yorkers and tourists alike spending their Memorial Day in the Big Apple on Monday will be treated to a city-stopping spectacle: Manhattanhenge. Manhattanhenge, a portmanteau of “Manhattan” and “Stonehenge,” is a twice-a-year solar event when the sunset lines up directly with the city’s grid, casting golden rays down city …

A judge sentenced former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes to 14 years in prison Monday for negotiating with gangs during his administration. Funes’ trial began in April with the former leader living in Nicaragua. El Salvador changed its laws last year to allow trials in absentia. Prosecutors had accused Funes …

TOKYO — North Korea on Monday notified neighboring Japan that it plans to launch a satellite in coming days, which may be an attempt to put Pyongyang’s first military reconnaissance satellite into orbit. Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada said he ordered Japan’s Self Defense Force to shoot down the satellite or debris, …

Part of a historic six-story apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, collapsed Sunday, triggering the rescues of seven people and injuring an unknown number of others, officials said. Concern over the possibility some could be buried in the rubble remained Sunday night as a secondary search of the property was underway, …