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UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council postponed Wednesday’s vote on extending the U.N. political mission in Haiti after China called for closed consultations on the proposed resolution. China has no diplomatic relations with Haiti, which is the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country and is being wracked by an increase in […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An investigation has been launched after a person believed to be an Anchorage, Alaska, police officer was shown in a photo with a woman in town for a Donald Trump rally flashing a novelty “White Privilege card.” The social media post caused concerns about racial equality in […]

FILE – An American Airlines flight that took off from Miami sits on the tarmac at the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, on Nov. 15, 2021. The U.S. government is giving American Airlines permission to resume flights to five cities in Cuba outside the capital of Havana. (AP […]

PHOENIX — Arizona’s Republican attorney general on Wednesday asked a court to lift an injunction blocking the enforcement of a law that bans all abortions except when the life of the mother is at risk. The filing from Attorney General Mark Brnovich asks a court in Tucson to lift an […]

LOS ANGELES — The 7-Eleven convenience store chain offered a $100,000 reward Wednesday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a masked gunman suspected of robbing six Southern California stores, killing two people and wounding three others. A clerk, Matthew Hirsch, 40, was shot and killed at a […]

ORLANDO, Fla. — The University of Central Florida has removed anti-racist statements from departmental websites, a move that one professor has decried as an “infringement on academic freedom” in the wake of the passage of a Republican-backed law that restricts how race can be taught. Ann Gleig, a religious studies […]

An helicopter takes part in a search and rescue operation near the eastern Aegean Sea island of Samos, Greece, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. A firefighting helicopter battling a blaze on the Greek island of Samos has crashed into the sea, authorities say. Three of the crew of four have been […]

The fifth shark attack in two weeks off Long Island was reported Wednesday evening. A 49-year-old man from Arizona was bitten by a shark shortly after 6 p.m. at Seaview Beach, Suffolk police said. The man “was standing in waist-deep water when a shark came up from behind and bit […]

NEW YORK — A former CIA software engineer was convicted Wednesday of federal charges accusing him of the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history. Joshua Schulte, who chose to defend himself at a New York City retrial, had told jurors in closing arguments that the CIA and FBI […]

A Manhattan bar agreed Wednesday to pay $500,000 to current and former employees who said managers called them “cows,” remarked on their underwear and used racial slurs to refer to colleagues of certain origin, according to the New York Attorney General’s Office. The bar, Sweet & Vicious in the Nolita […]