As tens of thousands of Americans die each year from synthetic opioids, namely fentanyl, federal officials say the illicit narcotics trade remains a critical problem [Read more]

A protester is in critical condition after setting themselves on fire in a "political protest" outside an Israeli Consulate office in Atlanta, police said. [Read more]

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who forged a path for women in the law and championed ideological compromise, has died. [Read more]

Former U.S. Olympic swimmer Klete Keller was sentenced Friday for his participation in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. [Read more]

To celebrate 40 years since the release of their self-titled debut, the spirited acoustic punk band Violent Femmes have prepared a new deluxe edition, out Friday [Read more]

Something is different on the comics pages this week [Read more]

There's much that happened in 2023 best left behind come the new year [Read more]

The frontman of The Pogues, best known for “Fairytale of New York,” has died. [Read more]

Nearly all the world's nations finalized the creation of a fund to help compensate countries struggling to cope with loss and damage caused by climate change, seen as a major first-day breakthrough at this year's U.N. climate conference as early cash s... [Read more]

Full Medicaid coverage starts this week for hundreds of thousands of uninsured adults in North Carolina [Read more]

A West Virginia coalition that helps support a network of anti-abortion pregnancy centers in the state is receiving $1 million to distribute to organizations committed to encouraging people not to end their pregnancies [Read more]

An alternative healer who advocates a technique known as “slapping therapy” has been charged over the death of a woman at one of his workshops in England [Read more]

Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo has been hit with a billion dollar class-action lawsuit over his role in promoting cryptocurrency-related “non-fungible tokens,” or NFTs, issued by the beleaguered cryptocurrency exchange Binance [Read more]

Meta says it has found and disabled thousands of fake Facebook accounts linked to China that were used to spread politically partisan content in the United States before next year's election [Read more]

Walmart is the latest company to publicly join the growing flock of major advertisers to pull spending from X, Elon Musk's beleaguered social media company, amid concerns about hate speech — as well as reaching a sizeable audience on the platform [Read more]

A federal judge has blocked Montana's first-in-the-nation law banning the video-sharing app TikTok in the state while a legal challenge to the law moves through the courts [Read more]

Holiday travelers are starting their final sprint [Read more]

Venice authorities have rolled out a pilot program to charge day-trippers 5 euros ($5.45) apiece to enter the fragile lagoon city on peak weekends next year [Read more]

Three weeks after Hurricane Otis smacked Acapulco, businesses of all types and sizes hum with activity as residents work with a singular purpose: restart as soon as possible the tourism engine of this city of 1 million people [Read more]

More than 55 million people are expected to travel at least 50 miles from home for Thanksgiving this year, and there's no Butterball hotline to help them with any bumps along the way [Read more]

The U.S. has charged an Indian national in what prosecutors allege was a failed plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist at the behest of an unnamed Indian government official [Read more]

Japan has suspended flights of its Osprey aircraft after a U.S. Air Force Osprey based in Japan crashed into the sea during a training mission [Read more]

Russia's Supreme Court effectively outlaws LGBTQ+ activism in the country in a broad crackdown on beleaguered community [Read more]

Somalia's maritime police force has intensified patrols in the Gulf of Aden following a failed pirate hijacking of a ship earlier this week [Read more]

Americans could have a harder time finding electric vehicles that qualify for a full $7,500 federal tax credit under new rules being proposed [Read more]

Stocks gained ground on Wall Street as the market comes off its best month in more than a year [Read more]

Growing oil producer Brazil joining OPEC+, potentially expanding the oil bloc's future control over some global supply [Read more]

The prospective new owner of the Dallas Mavericks is one of the richest women in the world, a Las Vegas casino mogul, and a U.S. and Israel power broker and newspaper publisher [Read more]