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The United Nations is in talks with North Korea over the American soldier who fled across the heavily militarized border and into the secretive state last week, a top U.N. official said Monday. Pvt. 2nd Class Travis King, 23, was about to fly back to the United States from South Korea …

At least six people died and as many as 26 others were injured in gun violence that sprawled across Chicago over the last 48 hours. The identified victims were ages 13 to 64. Early Friday, a 41-year-old man was found in a vehicle in an alley in the Lower West …

MADRID — Spain appears headed for political gridlock after Sunday’s inconclusive national elections left parties on both the right and left without a clear path toward forging a new government. The conservative Popular Party won the elections, but it fell short of its hopes of scoring a much bigger victory …

“Barbenheimer” burst through the box office on opening weekend, showcasing how the might of internet memes and movie buzz can bring people together. Both “Barbie,” released by Warner Bros. Pictures, and “Oppenheimer,” released by Universal Pictures, blew away box office projections. “Barbie” broke records during its opening run, making $155 …

William VanWhy says he was feeling emotionally overwhelmed when he checked himself into the mental health unit at Northwest Medical Center in Arkansas last year. Four days later, he was still in the locked unit but desperate to leave. “I was not receiving any medical care at all,” VanWhy, 32, …

MEXICO CITY — Eleven people were killed in a suspected arson attack on a bar in the northern Mexican border city of San Luis Rio Colorado after an expelled patron set it ablaze with a Molotov cocktail, authorities in the state of Sonora said on Saturday. Sonora state prosecutors said …

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Four people are missing after intense thunderstorms dumped record amounts of rain across a wide swath of Canada’s Atlantic-coast province of Nova Scotia over the past two days, causing flash flooding, road washouts and power outages. The floods submerged multiple vehicles, and Royal Canadian Mounted Police …

An Oklahoma mother is accused of killing her three young children, ages 11, 6, and 10 months old, and then herself during a supervised visitation at her home following an hours-long standoff with police. An officer responded Thursday afternoon to a home in Verdigris, in the Tulsa metropolitan area, because …

Even as the nation is faced with blistering heat waves this summer, Dr. Mandy Cohen, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is already thinking ahead to cold and flu season this winter. “We’re going to have three bugs out there, three viruses: Covid, of course, flu and …

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp was contacted by special counsel Jack Smith’s office as it investigates efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results, a spokesperson for the governor confirmed on Friday. “I can confirm our office has been contacted by Jack Smith’s office,” …