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President Joe Biden says France was America’s “first friend” at its founding and is one of its closest allies more than two centuries later

President Joe Biden says France was America’s “first friend” at its founding and is one of its closest allies more than two centuries later

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is defending her decision to block a plan to reduce New York City traffic and raise billions for its ailing subway system through a new toll on Manhattan drivers

A state judge has ordered academic workers at the University of California to temporarily halt their weekslong strike over the war in Gaza

New charges brought against the man accused of a string of killings on New York's Long Island are raising questions about another man’s murder conviction

A teenager who was convicted of fatally shooting four students at his high school in Michigan is appealing his life sentence

Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, has been killed when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state

Vice President Kamala Harris has focused on stopping gun violence during a campaign stop in Maryland to support U.S. Senate Democratic nominee Angela Alsobrooks in a race that could determine control of the Senate

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has been assaulted by a man on a square in the capital of Copenhagen

Danish local media say a man reportedly assaulted Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in central Copenhagen