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National Weather Service officials issued a dense fog advisory for the second day warning of visibility of one quarter of a mile in portions of Illinois. According to officials, fog is expected to blanket portions of central, north-central and northeast Illinois, and northwest Indiana going into Thursday evening. The advisory is set to expire at […]

Donald Trump will be back Thursday in a federal courthouse in New York City, where he’s expected to testify in his own defense in E. Jean Carroll‘s defamation case against him. Trump was initially expected to testify Monday, but the proceedings were postponed after a juror fell ill and Trump attorney Alina Habba told the […]

The fighting in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis has isolated its two main hospitals, stranding hundreds of patients and thousands of displaced people inside. A third hospital was evacuated overnight, White said. Thousands of people rushed to escape farther south in recent days, crowding into shelters and tent camps near the border with […]

A ransomware attack impacted the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority early Tuesday, according to a news release. Regional call centers and KCATA landlines cannot receive calls because of the attack. All services continue to operate, including fixed-route buses, Freedom and Freedom On-Demand paratransit service. The authority said it contacted authorities including the FBI and was […]

NEW YORK — Attorneys for E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump, pitted against each other in a civil defamation trial in Manhattan, know little about the nine people considering her claim for millions of dollars in damages against the former president. So, their lawyers have been left making pitches to those nine, the jurors, about […]

A U.S. man who founded an orphanage in Haiti once supported by Triangle residents was charged Monday with traveling from Florida to the Caribbean country to have sex with underage children after spending a decade dodging accusations that he abused minors in his care. Michael Karl Geilenfeld, 71, who was arrested Saturday in Denver, had […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The last time President Joe Biden visited Superior, Wisconsin, he warned of the danger posed by the deteriorating John A. Blatnik Memorial Bridge — pointing out the decades-old corrosion that had weakened the overpass connecting the two port cities in Wisconsin and Minnesota and vowing to fix it. Biden is returning to […]

Alabama plans to carry out the first known judicial execution of a prisoner using asphyxiation with nitrogen gas on Thursday evening, a closely watched new method the state hopes to advance as a viable, simpler alternative to lethal injections. Kenneth Smith, convicted of a 1988 murder-for-hire, is a rare prisoner who has already survived one […]

VATICAN CITY – A bishop appointed by Pope Francis was installed in a diocese in China on Jan 25, the Vatican said, in an apparent thaw in relations following friction when government-backed bishops were named without papal permission. The Vatican said Reverend Taddeo Wang Yuessheng, 58, was ordained as bishop for the diocese of Zhengzhou, […]

A Spanish High Court judge proposed on Thursday that former football federation chief Luis Rubiales stand trial over the kiss he planted on player Jenni Hermoso’s lips after Spain’s victory in the Women’s World Cup. Judge Francisco de Jorge ruled that his probe points to Rubiales’ kiss “being unconsented and carried out unilaterally and in […]

ATHENS – Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday repeated calls for the return of the Parthenon Sculptures to Athens from the British Museum, months after a diplomatic spat with Britain over the 2,500-year-old pieces. In his first public statement on the issue since November, Mitsotakis said his government has been in talks with the […]