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Temperatures in the area reached 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius), breaking by four degrees the previous record for this date that was set in 2011

Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters told a news conference that the attack that left two men and one woman dead was definitely “racially motivated”

The company said two people were injured and 10 others evaluated for heat stress. The fire damaged two giant storage tanks for naphtha, a component in the production of gasoline and jet fuels

Saturday’s gathering was a precursor to the actual anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington

The charismatic 38-year-old businessman was met Friday by hundreds of GOP activists in small central cities near Des Moines

The documents were released Friday by the State Department in Washington, on the verge of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the overthrow of the government of socialist Salvador Allende

The Sinaloa Cartel leader asks Judge Brian Cogan to authorize visits from Emma Coronel and the two daughters he has with former beauty queen

The storms featured lightning displays erupting across the night sky and dumped multiple inches of rain on communities across the lower portion of the state

The GOP hopes to cement support in Texas even as Democrats bet that a booming Hispanic population and other key demographic shifts could eventually turn the United States’ largest reliably red state blue

Maui County accused Hawaiian Electric of negligently failing to shut off power despite exceptionally high winds and dry conditions, saying that the destruction from the deadly Aug. 8 fires could have been avoided

New rulings on the bans may be imminent in Florida, Missouri and Texas in the coming week. A federal appeals court panel allowed Alabama to enforce its ban on the medical care for youth

After Trump was booked Thursday evening, seven co-defendants who had not yet surrendered did so Friday morning

In the photo, the former president confronts the camera in front of a bland gray backdrop, his eyes meeting the lens in an intense glare

Democrats consistently outpace Republicans and independents in their belief gun laws in the U.S. should be strengthened, according to an AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll

Police Chief John Pelletier says that releasing the names isn’t easy but that officials want to be thorough

‘We are prepared to raise rates further if appropriate and intend to hold policy at a restrictive level until we are confident that inflation is moving sustainably down toward our objective,’ the Fed chair said Friday

It is estimated that some 10 million people speak it, especially in Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, and Bolivia. It is also an official language of the Mercosur trade bloc

Legislators have reached an agreement to extend a system that has brought about a shift, making lower-middle class students the majority

They already face gaps in health care and nursing home facilities properly trained to meet their needs. That’s likely to be compounded by restrictions to transgender health care

A child’s tomb in the cemetery of the Peruvian city was vandalized. Another body was stolen from the morgue

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published two studies Thursday about the health impacts of the smoke, which shrouded city skylines with an orange haze in late spring. A medical journal also released a study this week

The Republican Party doesn’t seem able to reconcile rising concerns about climate change — especially young people — with the GOP’s older base, which largely rejects climate science as a liberal conspiracy theory

At least two-dozen women have come forward in recent months not only about sexual assaults, unwanted touching and coercion but of what they contend is a campaign by the spy agency to keep them from speaking out

Trump and 18 others were indicted last week, accused by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis of participating in a sprawling scheme to undermine the will of Georgia voters

The complex push-pull over Maui stream diversions recalls other battles over water rights in drought-stricken Western states that have pitted Native American tribes against farmers and farmers against urban areas

Retail sales at restaurants and bars surged from May through July compared with a year ago, despite prices remaining relatively elevated

The gunman was a retired law enforcement officer. The shooting occurred Wednesday evening at Cook’s Corner in rural Trabuco Canyon in Orange County