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A demolition company has been slowly pounding the 11-story structure with a wrecking ball that some observers say seems too small for the task.

Alexa Negrón Luciano was shot to death hours after a McDonald's customer complained that Ms. Negrón had spied on her in the women's room.

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An 18-year-old Tennessee mother was arrested for allegedly lying to investigators about the disappearance of her toddler daughter, officials said Wednesday. The 15-month-old girl from Blountville, Evelyn Boswell, was las...

Mike Bloomberg had just finished taking a group photograph with a delegation of New York University students at Bloomberg LP headquarters when he struck up a conversation

Mainland China reported 433 new cases of coronavirus infections on Feb. 26, the National Health Commission said on Thursday, up from 406 on the previous day.

South Korea reported 334 additional cases of the new coronavirus on Thursday, the largest daily increase yet, as the U.S. State Department issued a new travel warning for South Korea and a joint military drill was postpo...

Remember this the next time you go swimming. A woman in Texas made a bizarre catchwhile pier fishing in Port Isabel. Fortunately, she didn't touch the creature as doing socould have left her in pain for hours. Alyssa Ram...

The gunman was identified as a 51-year-old Milwaukee man who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 650 points Thursday, pushing it into a correction for the first time since December 2018 on virus fears.       

The virus, which has now spread to 47 countries, has put pressure on businesses and supply chains around the world.

A California coronavirus patient, the first U.S. case from "community spread," was not tested for days because the case didn't fit CDC criteria.       

Talibshah Hosini played some tough roles as an actor in Afghanistan before he fled. None was as hard as his real-life fight for survival in a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.

Countries in East Africa are racing against time to prevent new swarms of locusts wreaking havoc with crops and livelihoods after the worst infestation in generations.

Supported by Turkey, opposition forces went into Saraqeb overnight, reversing one of the main gains of the Syrian forces.

The UK must 'go big or go home' if it wants to tackle inequality, said the former head of the civil service.

A violent felon is at large after escaping parole custody in New York City, officials said.

The Sanctuary Runners club was set up two years ago to welcome asylum seekers to Ireland. It now has 1,500 runners By Jonathan Drennan for the Guardian Sport Network For many years the Irish journalist Graham Clifford tr...

A vice president of Iran, Masoumeh Ebtekar, has been infected with the coronavirus, a state-owned newspaper says.

Sara Netanyahu faces fresh allegations of mistreating staff a week before Israeli elections A former housekeeper at Benjamin Netanyahu's official residence is suing the Israeli prime minister's wife, Sara, for $190,000 (...

On Monday the jury returned a guilty verdict on two of the five charges against the movie producer, who is now awaiting sentencing. The Guardian US reporter Lauren Aratani discusses covering the trial and what the verdic...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday placed Vice President Mike Pence in charge of the US government response to the novel coronavirus, amid growing criticism of the White House's handling of the outbreak.