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Hundreds of American citizens have left Sudan by land, sea and air, the State Department said late Friday as fighting continued despite the extension of a fragile truce between the country’s two top generals. “We are actively helping U.S. citizens who seek to depart Sudan to move overland to a location …

The family of a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused in the leak of top-secret Pentagon documents says they are “standing together in solidarity and support” with him, one day after a judge kept the 21-year-old detained. Jack Teixeira, an airman first class who was assigned to the 102nd Intelligence Wing, …

HELENA, Mont. — Montana became the latest state to ban or restrict gender-affirming medical care for transgender kids Friday when its Republican governor signed legislation that exiled transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr told fellow lawmakers would leave “blood” on their hands. Montana is one of at least 15 states with laws …

President Joe Biden is considering a visit to Finland, NATO’s newest member, to coincide with the 30-member bloc’s July summit in Lithuania, according to three U.S. officials familiar with the discussions. The White House’s discussions of a potential visit have been ongoing for several months and remain active, according to the …

A House committee has unanimously approved a bill to improve how the Forest Service keeps track of wildfire prevention work, citing NBC News reporting that shows the government has long overstated how much of the country’s federal forests it has protected from catastrophic fires. The bill, the Accurately Counting Risk …

Three soldiers were killed and a fourth was injured after the Army Apache helicopters they were in collided in mid-air and crashed in Alaska on Thursday, the military said. The incident happened as the two AH-64 Apache helicopters were returning to Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks after a training flight, the …

A 17-year-old has been arrested in an Atlanta killing that claimed the life of a transgender woman who was featured in an upcoming documentary, police announced Thursday. Koko Da Doll was killed in the shooting that occurred around 10:40 p.m. April 18, Cinetic Media, the publicity firm representing the film …

The husband of Ana Walshe, a missing Massachusetts woman, had his mother hire a private investigator to follow his wife days before she disappeared because he suspected she was having an affair, prosecutors alleged in court Thursday morning. Norfolk Assistant District Attorney Greg Connor claimed that Brian Walshe’s mother hired a private …

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles-area rapper known as MoneySign Suede was killed in a California prison Tuesday, his attorney and the state corrections department said. The rapper, 22, real name was Jaime Brugada Valdez, was found at the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad around 10 p.m. “with injuries consistent with …

Human remains found at diminished Lake Mead in Nevada have been identified as those of a 52-year-old man who disappeared in 1998, Clark County said in a statement Wednesday. The skeletal remains were identified by the county medical examiner’s office as those of Claude Russell Pensinger, of Las Vegas, it …