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Nearly 3 1/2 decades after leaving the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this weekend will flip a switch to end electricity-grid connections to neighboring Russia and Belarus

Two years on from a devastating earthquake that shattered Turkey's southern region, nearly half a million people remain in temporary “container cities.”

The former interpreter for Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani has been sentenced to four years and nine months in prison

Alabama is planning to carry out its fourth execution with nitrogen gas

Alabama has carried out the nation’s fourth nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was raped and shot during an apartment break-in

Kendrick Lamar aims to infuse his Los Angeles hip-hop flavor into New Orleans while staying true to his storytelling roots during Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime performance

The deadline for federal workers to receive financial incentives to quit is approaching

The deadline for federal workers to receive financial incentives to quit is approaching

A judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to push out federal employees by offering them financial incentives

The European climate service Copernicus says the world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an abnormally chilly United States, a cooling La Nina and predictions of a slightly less hot year