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NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on the auction of a bag containing traces of moon dust (all times local):

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on the auction of a bag containing traces of moon dust (all times local):

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on the auction of a bag containing traces of moon dust (all times local):

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on the auction of a bag containing traces of moon dust (all times local):

The Santa Clara County Main Jail in San Jose was briefly placed on lockdown Wednesday after four inmates overdosed, possibly on the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, authorities said. “Based on a totality of the circumstances, we highly suspect the ingested substance to contain fentanyl,” said Sgt. Rich Glennon, a spokesman for the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office. Fentanyl is 25 to 50 times more potent than heroin and can be lethal even at very low doses, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Читать дальше...

MEXICO CITY — Mexican military forces killed the suspected leader of a drug gang and seven others in southern Mexico City Thursday, authorities said. The mid-day shootout and roadblocks of burning buses apparently set up to foil authorities’ advance created a scene that is common in other Mexican cities in the grasp of cartels, but

When suicide happens, it of course unleashes unfathomable grief. 

That anguish was multiplied Thursday when the public learned that Chester Bennington, the frontman for Linkin Park, not only killed himself but died on what would've been Chris Cornell's 53rd birthday. 

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The two men were close friends. They toured together in the late 2000s. Bennington and Cornell reached millions of fans with emotional music about psychological torment and resilience. Читать дальше...

Two Long Island men made and sold their own dangerously addictive fentanyl pills, authorities said Thursday.

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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The mother of an American college student arrested in central China following an altercation with a taxi driver five weeks earlier said police are demanding the equivalent of a $7,400 "ransom" for his release.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The mother of an American college student arrested in central China following an altercation with a taxi driver five weeks earlier said police are demanding the equivalent of a $7,400 "ransom" for his release.

The chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Joseph J. Lhota, at a conference in Midtown Manhattan in June.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The mother of an American college student arrested in central China following an altercation with a taxi driver five weeks earlier said police are demanding the equivalent of a $7,400 "ransom" for his release.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The mother of an American college student arrested in central China following an altercation with a taxi driver five weeks earlier said police are demanding the equivalent of a $7,400 "ransom" for his release.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The mother of an American college student arrested in central China following an altercation with a taxi driver five weeks earlier said police are demanding the equivalent of a $7,400 "ransom" for his release.

The judge ruled that a recent memo from the Justice Department that appeared to narrow the scope of Trump’s executive order did not remove the need for a court-ordered injunction

SAO PAULO (AP) — A judge in Brazil on Thursday ordered the seizure of more than $2.8 million in pension funds from former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in connection with his corruption conviction.

SAO PAULO (AP) — A judge in Brazil on Thursday ordered the seizure of more than $2.8 million in pension funds from former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in connection with his corruption conviction.

SAO PAULO (AP) — A judge in Brazil on Thursday ordered the seizure of more than $2.8 million in pension funds from former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in connection with his corruption conviction.

Half a world away, three students at Catholic University in Nairobi, Kenya, looked back. The screen, which sits inside a gold-painted shipping container, connects people around the world through video chats. The body-size screen in Crissy Field, not far from the Golden Gate Bridge, is part of a network of 30 portals stationed in 11 countries, including such hard-to-reach nations as Iraq, Rwanda and Afghanistan. All that’s required for the other country is to have high-speed Internet and a willing host, such as a university. Читать дальше...

EXCLUSIVE BY KIERAN GILL: West Ham are sponsored by Betway and the London Legacy Development Corporation do not want to cause conflict by getting into bed with a rival bookmaker.

EXCLUSIVE BY KIERAN GILL: West Ham are sponsored by Betway and the London Legacy Development Corporation do not want to cause conflict by getting into bed with a rival bookmaker.

The death of Justine Damond, 40, from a single gunshot wound to the abdomen fired through an open window of a police patrol car, has outraged her relatives and the public in both Australia and the United States. "Justine didn't have to die," Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau told reporters on Thursday in her first news conference about the shooting. Harteau said she apologized to Damond's fiance for the loss of life, adding that the action taken by Officer Mohamed Noor, who fired the fatal shot... Читать дальше...

Muslim Uighurs detained by Egyptian police fear harsh treatment if they are deported to China.