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Ukraine's military intelligence says North Korean troops are suffering heavy losses in Russia's Kursk region and face logistical difficulties as a result of Ukrainian attacks

Authorities say 16-year-old actor Hudson Meek has died after he fell out of a moving vehicle in Alabama

New data shows holiday sales rose this year even as Americans wrestled with still high prices in many grocery necessities and other financial worries

Americans still dreaming of a really big Christmas present can keep that dream alive during Friday’s Mega Millions drawing for a jackpot worth an estimated $1.15 billion

Police are investigating a Christmas shooting at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix that left three people wounded by gunfire and another person stabbed

Police are investigating a shooting at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix that left two people wounded by gunfire and another person stabbed

Mozambique’s police chief has said that at least 6,000 inmates have escaped from a high-security prison in the capital on Christmas Day after a rebellion, as widespread post-election riots and violence continue to engulf the country

Amada Cardenas, a Mexican American woman who lived in the tiny border town of Mirando City in South Texas, played an important role in the history of the peyote trade

The Native American Church is the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America

Peyote, a cactus that contains mescaline, a hallucinogen, grows naturally in South Texas and northern Mexico