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Before Taliban took over, the Afghan Air Force was operating 167 aircraft, including attack helicopters and planes, at the end of June.

Hurricane Ida is looking eerily like a dangerous sequel to 2005s Hurricane Katrina, the costliest storm in American history. But there's a few still-to-come twists that could make Ida nastier in some ways, but not quite as horrific in others.

Most agencies also assess with low confidence that SARS-CoV-2 probably was not genetically engineered; however, two agencies believe there was not sufficient evidence to make an assessment either way, said the report.

Two men have been arrested in the fatal shooting of an offduty New Orleans police officer during a holdup while he was dining at a Houston restaurant, police said Friday.

A young husband with a child on the way who wanted to teach history one day and another man who always wanted to serve in the military were among the 13 U.S. troops killed in a horrific suicide bombing at Afghanistan's Kabul airport, which also claimed t...

R&B star R. Kelly once compared himself to rock legend Jerry Lee Lewis notorious for marrying his 13yearold cousin decades ago saying they were both misunderstood geniuses, a witness at Kellys sextrafficking trial testified Thursday.

Federal officials said Thursday they are shutting down an embattled jail in New York City after a slew of problems that came to light following Jeffrey Epsteins suicide there two years ago.

Gunmen have released some of the children kidnapped from a school in northern Nigeria back in May, some of whom were as young as 5 years old, the school's head teacher said late Thursday.

The night before he was indicted this week, a Long Island dentist suspected of exchanging painkillers for sexual favors was sending text messages suggesting hed give a woman a Percocet prescription if she wanted to hang out and party a bit, federal prosec...

The United States and allies urged Afghans to leave Kabul airport on Thursday, citing the threat of an attack by Islamic State militants, as Western troops race to evacuate as many people as possible and get out themselves by Aug. 31.

FBI agents on Wednesday searched offices at Detroit City Hall and the homes of two City Council members, just a few weeks after another councilman was charged in an alleged bribery scheme.

The prospect of being forcibly married to the Taliban now afflicts millions of Afghan girls and women.

When asked about the inability of the Afghanistan government to assess what was happening on the ground, Saleh said little could be done to change the attitude of a superpower.

A Washington state tech executive has been sentenced to two years in prison after fraudulently obtaining nearly $1.8 million in federal COVID19 disaster relief loans.

A small airplane made an emergency landing on an interstate highway north of San Diego on Tuesday, causing a huge traffic jam.

A Kentucky lawmaker who won reelection despite facing criminal charges for allegedly choking a woman and trying to hog tie" her during a domestic dispute resigned on Tuesday.