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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday that inaction by the country’s former president and four others led to Easter Sunday bomb attacks in 2019 that killed nearly 270 people and ordered them to pay compensation for violating the basic rights of the victims and their families. …

A tornado hit parts of Alabama Thursday, causing “significant damage” in Selma, the city’s mayor said. Mayor James Perkins Jr. asked residents to “please refrain from traveling the roadways and stay away from down power lines.” Emergency response crews were already on the ground to provide assistance. The National Weather …

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen announced Thursday that former Gov. Pete Ricketts will fill the Senate seat of Ben Sasse, who officially resigned from Congress this week to return to academia as president of the University of Florida. Ricketts, a Republican like Pillen and Sasse, will serve two years ahead of …

FORT BRAGG, Calif. — Several communities near California’s Monterey Peninsula were told to flee their homes Wednesday after authorities warned that a river swollen by a series of drenching storms is expected to overflow its banks and possibly turn the area into an island. Monterey County Sheriff Tina Nieto compared …

First lady Jill Biden had two cancerous lesions removed Wednesday, the White House doctor said in a memo. The first lady, 71, had gone into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to have a small lesion above her right eye surgically removed. It was discovered in a skin cancer screening. …

Nearly 1 in 4 patients who are admitted to a hospital in the United States will experience harm, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.  The stark findings underscore that, despite decades of effort, hospitals in the United States still have a long way …

Flights across the United States resumed Wednesday after the Federal Aviation Administration suffered a computer outage that forced it to halt all departures nationwide while it scrambled to resolve the issue. The FAA announced that the ground stop had been lifted at around 8:50 a.m. and that normal air traffic …

You still have a shot at becoming a Mega Million billionaire. Nobody matched the six numbers — 7, 13, 14, 15, 18 and Mega Ball 9 — Tuesday night to win the $1.1 billion jackpot, which means the prize will keep growing. When the numbers are drawn again Friday night, the …

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Tuesday addressed the controversy over classified documents found at a former office of his in Washington, saying that he was “surprised” when he learned of their existence and that his attorneys have been “cooperating fully” with the government’s review of the records. “People know …

Last week, police announced they had arrested Bryan Kohberger in the brutal murders of four University of Idaho students. After a weekslong investigation, authorities zeroed in on Kohberger in part by comparing DNA found at the crime scene with DNA of a relative of Kohberger apparently obtained from the family’s …