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At least 304 people died and hundreds were injured or missing after a major earthquake struck southwestern Haiti on Saturday, authorities said, reducing churches, hotels and homes to rubble in the latest tragedy r to hit the impoverished Caribbean nation.

Temperatures are expected to reach up to 94 degrees Fahrenheit (34 Celsius) in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday as an excessive heat warning is set to expire in the evening.

Nearly 20,000 Rohingya have been relocated to Bhashan Char island, which takes the full force of cyclones that roar across the Bay of Bengal each year.

Oregons governor said Friday she will send up to 1,500 National Guard troops to hospitals around the state to support healthcare workers as the COVID19 surges amid the rapid spread of the Delta variant.

As the standoff in Texas over new voting laws drags on, Republicans have turned to a drastic option to end the stalemate: using law enforcement to find and retrieve more than 50 Democratic legislators who refuse to return to the state Capitol.

The upcoming 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks as well as approaching religious holidays could inspire extremist attacks, the Department of Homeland Security said in a terrorism alert issued Friday.

A new Oregon law that suspends a requirement for a basicskills test in math, reading and writing to graduate high school is being praised by advocates as a way to rethink education standards and sharply criticized by others as a misguided effort that will...

Ariya Jutanugarn had five birdies in a sixhole stretch on the back nine and shot a 6under 66 on Friday to take the secondround lead in the LPGA Tours windy and rainy Trust Golf Womens Scottish Open.

A storefront collapsed into rubble at a Las Vegas supermarket at opening time early Friday, injuring four people but none seriously, a fire official and witnesses said.

A jury found a massage therapist guilty Thursday of sex crimes against five people, including three female soccer players at the University of Kansas.

What began as an investigation into how election equipment passwords from a rural Colorado county got posted on a right wing blog has turned into a feud between the state's Democratic secretary of state and the county's conservative clerk.

New Mexico has retained its title as the nation's most heavily Hispanic state, with 47.7% of respondents to the 2020 census identifying ancestry linked to Latin America and other Spanishspeaking areas.

Elisa Xolalpa has had three daughters and found a job she enjoys since a former boyfriend tried to destroy her life by tossing acid on her when she was 18. Two decades later, she is still seeking justice.

The Afghan conflict has escalated dramatically since May, when US-led forces began the final stage of a troop withdrawal due to end later this month following a 20-year occupation.

Russian news reports say a helicopter carrying tourists crashed Thursday on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russias far east, leaving about 10 people missing.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday that the country is not ready yet to fully reopen, but border settings can be eased in a phased manner from early next year.