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Jurors have heard opening statements in the trial of the man accused of choking a distressed Black subway rider to death last year in New York

For the first time, New York City’s public school students have the day off to mark the holiday of Diwali, celebrated in India and among the global Indian diaspora as the victory of light over darkness

South Carolina has put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection for the fatal shooting of a store clerk in Spartanburg

South Carolina is scheduled to kill death row inmate Richard Moore by injection

More than a year into a war that has ricocheted across the Middle East, Israeli troops are still battling Hamas in the most heavily destroyed and isolated part of the Gaza Strip

A ride-hailing driver has recounted how he had narrow escape when a huge tree smashed onto his vehicle as Typhoon Kong-rey swept over Taiwan, also sweeping away metal roofs and sending landslides onto roads and into houses

Heidi Klum and Janelle Monáe have opted for out-of-this-world Halloween costumes this year — both choosing the stubby alien E

Up and down Florida’s Gulf Coast, residents are deciding whether to stay or go following two recent hurricanes

North Carolina had been projected as the state with the most closely watched race for governor this fall

Hakeem Jeffries has said this election is about the economy, and stopping Project 2025 and MAGA extremes