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Volcano scientists issued an alert Wednesday, warning that a cloud of ash from an eruption more than century ago was headed toward Alaskas Kodiak Island.

A U.S.sponsored show of alliance with Japan and South Korea stumbled Wednesday when American diplomats couldn't convince their Asian allies to share a news conference stage.

An 82yearold driver who struck and killed a pedestrian in western Michigan will not face charges for leaving the scene after insisting that he believed he had hit a deer, a prosecutor said.

Israel's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a freeze on returning a 6yearold boy who survived a cable car crash in Italy to his relatives there until it decides whether to hear an appeal by family members in Israel.

A federal judge retained jurisdiction Tuesday in a dispute over a Canadian oil pipeline that runs through a section of the Great Lakes, rejecting Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's contention that the case belongs in state court.

Teams that will compete in the 37th Americas Cup now know the rules and conditions that will govern the regatta, as well as some tweaks to the high-tech boats that will fly across the tops of waves.

Adele attracted 10.3 million viewers to a busy Sunday night special where she debuted new music, facilitated a marriage proposal and dished with Oprah Winfrey about her divorce and workout routine.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Tuesday that no athlete should be excluded from competition on the grounds of a perceived unfair advantage due to their gender as it released a new framework on transgender inclusion.

The United States, which brokered Bosnia's 1995 peace accord, may impose sanctions against those who try to unilaterally withdraw from its state institutions or destabilise the deal, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Tuesday.

Will Smith wouldnt seem an obvious candidate for a midlife crisis. Hugely successful, immensely popular, indefatigably sunny.

Washington state's bipartisan redistricting commission failed to meet its deadline for redrawing political maps, meaning the task will now be taken up by the state Supreme Court.

Slovakia is planning new restrictions on unvaccinated people in an effort to tame the latest surge of coronavirus infections that has caused a critical situation in the country's hospitals, the prime minister said Tuesday.

A former Fort Worth police officer faces a murder trial early next year for fatally shooting a Black woman through a back window of her home in 2019 while responding to a call about an open front door.

Wang Huiyao, president of the Center for China and Globalisation, said Xi's use of the expression is a show of genuine goodwill.

The judge in Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial will use a raffle drum that sat in the courtroom throughout the twoweek trial to select the names of alternate jurors who were dismissed from the pool of 18 to get to the final 12 who will decide the case.

Attorneys in Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial sparred for the last time Monday during closing arguments, with prosecutors painting Rittenhouse as an inexperienced instigator and defense lawyers insisting the Illinois man fired in selfdefense.