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The Jamaican government on Monday said at least 32 deaths have been attributed to Hurricane Melissa, with Information Minister Dana Morris Dixon saying there are possibly eight more unconfirmed deaths.With its tourism season just a month...

Faith leaders denounced Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for rejecting access to give Communion to immigrants being held at an Illinois facility over the weekend.The Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership (CSPL), a...

Trent Schneider, 57, was arrested on Monday, prosecutors said.A suburban Chicago man was federally charged for allegedly threatening to kill President Donald Trump on social media, according to court records unsealed on Monday.Trent Schneider, 57, of Winthrop Harbor, was...

Ashlee Buzzard, the mom of missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard, allegedly switched license plates during their road trip in an apparent effort to avoid detection, according to authorities.On Oct. 7, Melodee and her mom left on a three-day road trip...

The State Department on Monday officially updated its designation for Nigeria as a "Country of Particular Concern" for its alleged severe violations of religious freedom and persecution of Christians. The CPC label is given by the U.S. government to nations "engaged in...

For several weeks now, the Senate has tried, and failed, on 13 separate occasions to advance a short-term funding bill to reopen the government. But now, according to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, that bill has one pretty big...

OpenAI and Amazon have signed a $38 billion deal that enables the ChatGPT maker to run its artificial intelligence systems on Amazon’s data centers in the U.S.OpenAI will be able to power its AI tools using “hundreds of thousands”...

An investigation into allegations that Sheffield Hallam University faced sustained pressure from China to shut down human rights research has been referred to counter-terrorism police.The BBC and the Guardian newspaper has been reporting that documents show that China had...

Diane Ladd, three-time Academy Award nominee and star of Wild at Heart, has died at 89. Her daughter, actress Laura Dern, confirmed her death on Monday. "My amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother, Diane Ladd, passed...

The Trump administration said Monday it would provide partial payments to about 42 million food stamp recipients in November, though the White House warned the funds could take as long as months to reach households.The move promised some eventual...