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BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) — President Donald Trump paid a surprise Thanksgiving visit to Afghanistan, where he announced the U.S. and Taliban have been engaged in ongoing peace talks and said he believes the Taliban want a cease-fire. In his first trip to the site of America’s longest war, Trump arrived at Bagram Air […]

Antwon Moody, 27, is the third man killed in two days during a spate of violence in the small Delta town, population 12,000.

Attorney General Bill Barr decried attacks on religious values in a speech Friday, tying a movement of “militant secularism” to societal maladies including the opioid epidemic and “an increase in senseless violence.”

Congress returns Monday from a month-long recess struggling to resolve the difficult politics of gun control while trying to avoid yet another government shutdown.

Walgreens is asking customers to no longer openly carry guns into its stores, the company announced Thursday.

The gunman in a West Texas rampage “was on a long spiral of going down” and had been fired from his oil services job the morning he killed seven people, calling 911 both before and after the shooting began, authorities said.

Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is in flames, burning at the highest rate since 2013, when that nation’s space research center first began tracking fires there. Here’s what we know. How big is the Amazon rainforest, and what does it matter? The world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon spans eight countries and covers 40% of South America — an […]

Six people were wounded at a street party in Chicago’s West Side early Sunday when at least one person started shooting, the city’s police department said.

Los Angeles-based MS-13 gang members carried out a series of grisly homicides over the past two years, including hacking a victim to death with a machete in the Angeles National Forest and carving out his heart, according to a newly unsealed indictment detailed by officials at a news conference Tuesday.

Delta Air Lines is giving passengers to one of the Dominican Republic’s airports the right to change or cancel tickets without the usual penalty. The flights covered by the waiver are those going to and from Punta Cana, on the eastern tip of the Island, where several American tourists have died in the last year. Delta said […]

The Dominican Republic’s top tourism official on Friday downplayed multiple deaths of American tourists, calling it an exaggeration.