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LOS ANGELES — An unseasonably cold storm coated Southern California mountains with snow, dumped heavy rain elsewhere and spawned two small tornadoes Thursday as spring struggled to shake the grip of an exceptionally wet winter. More than 4 inches of new snow was reported on Mount Wilson, 15 miles northeast of …

BELGRADE, Serbia — A shooter killed at least eight people and wounded 13 in a drive-by shooting in a town close to Belgrade late Thursday, the second such mass killing in Serbia in two days, state television reported. The attacker used an automatic weapon to shoot randomly at people near …

British pop star Ed Sheeran is not liable in a copyright infringement lawsuit that accused him of taking parts of the melody of Marvin Gaye’s soul classic “Let’s Get It On” in his own hit “Thinking Out Loud,” a jury decided Thursday. The jury reached a unanimous verdict, a requirement …

Russia claimed Thursday that the United States was behind an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin that it said was a Ukrainian attempt to assassinate President Vladimir Putin. The accusation, made without citing evidence, comes less than 24 hours after Moscow said that it had foiled an overnight drone strike …

A man died after a New York City subway rider put him in a chokehold for about 15 minutes following an altercation on a train, according to police and a witness. The incident, partly captured on cellphone video, happened around 2:27 p.m. Monday on a northbound F train. The 30-year-old …

Florida Republicans on Wednesday approved bills to ban diversity programs in colleges and prevent students and teachers from being required to use pronouns that don’t correspond to someone’s biological sex, building on top priorities of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. The two proposals were given final passage by the Republican supermajorities …

The wife of Francisco Oropesa, the man accused of killing five of his neighbors in their Texas home, has been arrested along with several others, officials said Wednesday morning. Chief Deputy Tim Kean of the San Jacinto Sheriff’s Office announced during a news conference that several arrests had been made. …

The man accused of killing five of his neighbors with an AR-15 rifle in their Texas home was arrested Tuesday, after a tip led authorities to a house less than 20 miles from where the crimes took place, officials said. The arrest of Francisco Oropesa, 38, in the city of …

In a response that left many professional writers dispirited, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers — the trade association that represents most of the industry’s big entertainment companies — rejected that proposal. (NBCUniversal’s news division has some employees who are represented by the WGA.) Instead, according to WGA …

A Missouri judge on Monday temporarily blocked a unique rule that would require adults and children to undergo more than a year of therapy and fulfill other requirements before they could receive gender-affirming treatments such as puberty blockers, hormones and surgery. St. Louis County Circuit Judge Ellen Ribaudo issued a temporary restraining …