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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line protégé of the country’s supreme leader who helped oversee the mass executions of thousands in 1988 and later led the country as it enriched uranium near weapons-grade levels and launched a major drone-and-missile attack on Israel, has died.

A female student was shot and killed this weekend at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, the university confirmed.

Officials in Mexico say at least 14 people have been killed in three different attacks against political candidates in recent days the violence-torn southern state of Chiapas. The latest attack late Sunday targeted the car driving Nicolás Noriega, who is running to lead the municipal government of the town of Mapastepec.

Office workers are pinching lunchtime pennies to splurge on weekend meals and happy hour drinks, new transaction data shows.

GOP Sen. Marco Rubio, a potential vice presidential pick for Donald Trump, refused to say whether he would accept the results of the 2024 election.

America’s first Black astronaut candidate has finally made it to space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company. Ninety-year-old Ed Dwight blasted off from West Texas with five other passengers on Sunday.

A young boy is among three people dead after an Amtrak train hit a pickup truck in upstate New York. The Friday accident happened in North Tonawanda, a small town along the Niagara River between Niagara Falls and Buffalo. Police say the 6-year-old boy was one of three people in the pickup who died in the crash. The other victims...

An Israeli airstrike has killed 27 people in central Gaza, mostly women and children, and fighting is raging across the north. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces criticism from the two other members of his War Cabinet over the war that is now in its eighth month.

Sean “Diddy” Combs apologized Sunday after footage was released that appeared to show him beating his ex-girlfriend Cassie in 2016.

Colleges and universities have long been protected places for free expression without pressure or punishment. But protests over Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza in its hunt for Hamas after the Oct. 7 massacre have tested that ideal around the world.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash Monday after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region of the country’s northwest, state media reported. Raisi was 63.

Here’s a breakdown of what happened to top-ranked golfer Scottie Scheffler, who was arrested Friday while arriving for the PGA Championship.

President Joe Biden has told the graduating class at Morehouse College that he hears their voices of protest over the Israel-Hamas war, and that scenes from the conflict in Gaza have been heartbreaking.