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ADIYAMAN, Turkey — As the human death toll topped 28,000, the desperation mounted with each hour that passed for those who hoped to find their relatives alive in the rubble days after two earthquakes devastated Turkey and Syria. But as rescue workers continued their round-the-clock search in freezing temperatures Saturday, …

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s decision to break the recent tradition of sitting for an interview with the news network broadcasting the Super Bowl came after a series of discussions between Fox and White House officials. Fox proposed having one of its news anchors, such as Bret Baier or Shannon …

A Utah teenager fell about 30 feet to her death while hiking at Kane Creek Canyon on Friday afternoon, according to a news release from the Moab City Police Department. The 17-year-old girl, identified by officials and a loved one as Zoe Afton McKinney, was hiking the Moab Rim Trail …

Hundreds of wild sea lions in South America, a farm of minks in Europe, and more than 58 million poultry birds have died. All of these animals fell victim to the impact of avian influenza — a virus rapidly circulating the globe, killing wild and domesticated animals, disrupting ecologies and …

JACKSON, Miss. — A relative of Emmett Till is suing to try to make a Mississippi sheriff serve a 1955 arrest warrant on a white woman in the kidnapping that led to the Black teenager’s brutal lynching. The torture and killing of Till in the Mississippi Delta became a catalyst for the …

The family of a Colorado man who was seen on security video being struck by a squad car before he was fatally shot by police is demanding answers about the circumstances of the man’s death. Stephen Poolson Jr., 41, died Feb. 2 after an unnamed Littleton Police officer rammed a …

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military on Friday afternoon shot down a “high-altitude object” flying over Alaska airspace that the Department of Defense was tracking over the last 24 hours, National Security Council official John Kirby confirmed at the White House. “The object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet …

SpaceX is a big step closer to sending its giant Starship spacecraft into orbit, completing an engine-firing test at the launch pad on Thursday. Thirty-one of the 33 first-stage booster engines ignited simultaneously for about 10 seconds in south Texas. The team turned off one engine before sending the firing …

The defense in the double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh objected ahead of testimony to one of the prosecution’s witnesses Thursday after it was revealed he had donated to a GoFundMe campaign set up by the children of Murdaugh’s mother’s caregiver “for her bravery” following her testimony. Mark Tinsley, the lawyer …

The Shelby County District Attorney’s office in Tennessee said Thursday it will review all cases previously handled by the five Memphis police officers charged in the beating and killing of Tyre Nichols. District Attorney Steve Mulroy did not say how many cases would be reviewed but said in a statement that …