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New COVID-19 XEC variant circulating just before fall

September 21, 2024, 10:15am Health

A new COVID-19 variant, XEC, has arrived just before fall. Read story

Ha Kum Chul, one of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission&#039;s investigators, speaks to the media during a news conference at the commission in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024.

Adoption fraud separated generations of South Korean children from their families, AP finds

Ha Kum Chul, one of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission&#039;s investigators, speaks to the media during a news conference at the commission in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024.

September 21, 2024, 6:35am Nation & World

South Korea’s government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to supply some 200,000 Korean children to parents overseas, despite years of evidence they were being procured through questionable or downright unscrupulous means, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found. Read story

New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks to members of the press at a news conference in New York, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024.

Federal authorities subpoena NYC mayor’s director of asylum seeker operations

New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks to members of the press at a news conference in New York, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024.

September 20, 2024, 12:40pm Nation & World

Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed the director of New York City's Office of Asylum Seeker Operations, the latest sign of escalating federal scrutiny into Mayor Eric Adams' administration. Read story

Highway crash injures 8 Southern California firefighters

September 20, 2024, 10:37am Nation & World

Eight firefighters were injured Thursday in a severe highway crash involving a fire truck in Southern California, authorities said. Read story

Israeli soldiers pushed 3 apparently lifeless bodies from roofs during a West Bank raid

September 20, 2024, 9:44am Nation & World

Israeli soldiers pushed three apparently lifeless bodies from rooftops during a raid in the northern part of the occupied West Bank on Thursday, according to an Associated Press journalist at the scene and video obtained by AP. Read story

Ursula von der Leyen, left, President of the European Commission, shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, following a joint press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024.

The EU’s chief is trying to help Ukraine prepare for winter. Half its energy network is destroyed.

Ursula von der Leyen, left, President of the European Commission, shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, following a joint press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024.

September 20, 2024, 9:41am Nation & World

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrived in Ukraine on Friday focused on helping the country to repair and reconnect its war-damaged electricity grid and boost its heating capacity as winter approaches. Read story

Rescuers carry a body at the scene of a missile strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024.

Israel’s military says its strike on Beirut killed senior Hezbollah official Ibrahim Akil

Rescuers carry a body at the scene of a missile strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024.

September 20, 2024, 9:32am Nation & World

Israel launched a rare airstrike that killed a senior Hezbollah military official in a densely populated southern Beirut neighborhood on Friday, the Israeli army said. It was the deadliest such strike on Lebanon’s capital in years, with Lebanese health authorities reporting at least 14 people killed and dozens more wounded… Read story

The outside of the Letcher County courthouse is shown on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024 in Whitesburg, Ky.

Kentucky sheriff charged in judge’s death allegedly ignored deputy’s abuse of woman in his chambers

The outside of the Letcher County courthouse is shown on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024 in Whitesburg, Ky.

September 20, 2024, 9:22am Nation & World

The sheriff charged with murder in the shooting of a rural Kentucky judge in his courthouse chambers was accused in a federal lawsuit of failing to investigate allegations that one of his deputies repeatedly sexually abused a woman in the same judge’s chambers. Read story

This June 2023 United States Coast Guard still frame from video provided by Pelagic Research Services, shows remains of the Titan submersible, center, on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. (U.S.

Passenger on a previous Titan sub dive says his mission was aborted due to apparent malfunction

This June 2023 United States Coast Guard still frame from video provided by Pelagic Research Services, shows remains of the Titan submersible, center, on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. (U.S.

September 20, 2024, 9:21am Nation & World

A paid passenger on an expedition to the Titanic with the company that owned the Titan submersible testified before a U.S. Coast Guard investigatory panel Friday that the mission he took part in was aborted due to an apparent mechanical failure. Read story

U.S. troops finish deployment to remote Alaska island amid spike in Russian military activity

September 19, 2024, 3:26pm Nation & World

About 130 U.S. soldiers are returning to their bases after being deployed last week to a remote western Alaska island with mobile rocket launchers amid a spike in Russian military activity off the western reaches of the U.S., a military official said Thursday. Read story