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A man set himself on fire outside the New York headquarters of the United Nations on Thursday and died of his injuries, the city’s police department said.

Just days after authorities removed 16 siblings from a squalid home and arrested their parents and grandparents, the question looms over their southern Ohio village: How could this have happened, for years, unnoticed, right here?

A US Air Force major was arrested on the steps of the US Capitol on Wednesday after delivering a speech calling for the impeachment and removal of U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

Sen. Mitch McConnell remains hospitalized as “he continues his recovery,” a spokesperson for the Kentucky Republican said in a statement on Thursday.

The explosion near the main courthouse complex left 22 others wounded, the ministry said as reported by Syria’s state-run Al-Ikhbariya network.

The U.S. Embassy in The Bahamas is warning travellers to avoid jet ski rentals after reports of sexual assaults and serious injuries. Canada’s travel advisory also flags crime, violence and safety concerns for visitors.

A former U.S. Olympian was indicted Thursday on a felony charge in what U.S. President Donald Trump has called vandalism of the Reflecting Pool.

A man charged in a Lexington double homicide appeared in court on Tuesday.

The Trump administration and AI giant Anthropic have not discussed the government taking stakes in the firm, a source familiar with the matter said.

Consultants tied to U.S. President Donald Trump may have engaged in financial fraud, tricking donors who wanted to support the nation’s bipartisan 250th anniversary organizer into sending their money instead to a rival group set up by his administration, according to a report released Thursday by House Democrats.

President Donald Trump last week signed “Lulu’s Law,” which requires the Federal Communications Commission to allow the emergency messages. The legislation authorizes the warnings by classifying a shark attack as an event for which an emergency alert can be issued.

A Massachusetts city home to one of the U.S.’ largest Cape Verdean communities will impose a nighttime curfew ahead of Cape Verde’s World Cup match Friday after police said recent postgame celebrations were marred by shootings, stabbings and other violence, prompting city officials to request National Guard assistance.

Amanda Hendricks, a former Arby’s manager in McCurtain County, is speaking out after a felony charge and a lawsuit claim she spit in a customer’s food and transmitted herpes.

The rule would apply to hospitals that serve low-income patients under what is known as the 340B program, which lets hospitals buy outpatient prescription drugs at discounted prices but charger higher costs to patients

A man who flew his plane into Beijing’s tallest skyscraper last week was a 66-year-old local resident who had expressed suicidal thoughts, Chinese authorities said Thursday, amid intense speculation about the pilot’s identity and motivation.