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NEW DELHI — Indian police on Sunday arrested a separatist leader who has revived calls for an independent Sikh homeland and the secession of India’s northern Punjab state, which has a history of violent insurgency. Amritpal Singh had been on the run since last month after capturing national attention in February, when …

Jeff Shell, the CEO of NBCUniversal, is leaving the company “effective immediately” after an investigation into “inappropriate conduct,” the media company’s owner, Comcast, announced Sunday. Comcast did not specify in a statement how Shell violated company policy. Shell said in a statement that he had “an inappropriate relationship with a …

ORLANDO, Fla. — A former Walt Disney World employee is facing a charge that he surreptitiously took a video up the skirt of a female customer, allegedly telling investigators he had done it more than 500 times over the past six years. Jorge Diaz Vega, 26, worked at the Star …

Online, the “Succession” character Kendall Roy has been described as many things: depressed, desperate for attention, cringe. But to his die-hard following, Kendall — played by Jeremy Strong — is just “babygirl.” In internet speak, that descriptor isn’t a pejorative. The term has been repurposed by fans online to label their favorite …

Police in South Florida said they will not charge a neighbor for shooting at a car being used by a grocery delivery worker who ended up at the wrong address. Officials in Davie, a town about 26 miles north of Miami, announced Friday that charges would not be recommended against …

A year ago, during a meeting at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, Ukrainian government officials pleaded for their Western counterparts to provide any weapons or ammo they could after Russia’s failed siege of Kyiv caused their stocks to nearly run dry.  Now in a better position, Ukraine officials said this …

DES MOINES, Iowa — Republican White House hopefuls are courting influential religious conservatives at an event in Iowa that marks the unofficial start of the state’s 2024 caucus campaign. The Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition’s annual spring fundraiser on Saturday evening is attracting, among others, former President Donald Trump, who’s already a …

The NAACP sued Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves after he signed legislation that allows state authorities to exert more control over law enforcement in Jackson, including by expanding the Capitol Police, which shot four people last year without much public explanation.  The lawsuit, which was e-filed Friday evening in the U.S. …

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Friday agreed to allow a former prosecutor from his office provide testimony in a House GOP inquiry into the DA’s prosecution of former President Donald Trump. Bragg and House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, filed a joint motion Friday that paves the way for …

A newly issued autopsy shows that a Native American girl’s death after collapsing at Diamond Ranch Academy, a Utah boarding school, was the result of a serious infection that usually needs to be treated with antibiotics. Taylor Goodridge, 17, died on Dec. 20, and the state concluded in a subsequent …