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Author Salman Rushdie, marking his return to the literary world after a violent attack last year that left him permanently injured, says he doesn’t want pity. “I’ve always tried very hard not to adopt the role of a victim,” he recently told New Yorker magazine editor David Remnick. The story …

“Ten major cities were affected by shaking,” Tobin said. “The scale is remarkable.” The location of the earthquakes wasn’t a surprise. They ruptured near what seismologists call a “triple-junction” — where the African, Arabian and Anatolian tectonic plates meet. The East Anatolian Fault is a known, mapped fault system.  The …

The FBI captured two people, one a nationally known neo-Nazi leader, before they could launch an attack on Baltimore’s power grid that could “completely destroy this whole city,” authorities said Monday. The suspects, Brandon Russell and Sarah Clendaniel, were taken into custody last week, in Florida and Maryland, respectively, officials …

The National Enquirer, the tabloid at the center of many controversies involving former President Donald Trump, will be sold to a joint venture involving Theodore Farnsworth, the former MoviePass chairman who has been criminally charged with securities fraud. The Enquirer’s parent company, a360 Media, agreed to sell the publication — along with …

As federal investigators worked to find out why a 150-car train derailed in northeastern Ohio, the state’s governor warned late Sunday that unstable temperatures in a car transporting chemicals could lead to an explosion. The area most at risk of being affected by the Friday crash, that within a 1-mile …

Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., the freshman lawmaker accused of fabricating key parts of his résumé, is being accused of ethics violations and sexual harassment by a former prospective congressional aide, according to a letter posted Friday on Twitter. In the letter to the House Ethics Committee, Derek Myers accused Santos …

A vendor that provides food service to schools apologized for an “unintentional insensitivity” Black History Month menu, echoing similar apologies its made for more than a decade amid backlash for racially insensitive menus. Students at Nyack Middle School in New York were served chicken and waffles with an option of watermelon …

Last month’s killing of a nonbinary activist known as “Tortuguita,” who was shot during an occupation protest in Atlanta’s South River Forest, marked the first police killing of a demonstrator in the history of the U.S. environmental movement. Police entered the forest on Jan. 18 after months of tension with …

SANTIAGO, Chile — Chile extended an emergency declaration to yet another region on Saturday as firefighters struggled to control dozens of raging wildfires that have claimed at least 22 lives amid a scorching heat wave that has broken records. The government declared a state of catastrophe in the La Araucanía …

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