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Munich (Germany) (AFP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he sought "security guarantees" as he met with the US vice president on Friday to discuss the Trump administration's efforts to...

San Francisco (AFP) - OpenAI's board chairman on Friday said it has unanimously rejected an Elon Musk-led offer to buy the hot artificial intelligence company for $97. 4 billion

(AFP) - The US Justice Department filed court papers Friday to dismiss a corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams, despite a barrage of resignations from prosecutors who refused to...

Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - Mudslides blocked roads around Los Angeles on Friday after heavy rain pounded areas burned by last month's wildfires, sending denuded hillsides tumbling. Parts of...

New York (AFP) - A top prosecutor who brought corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams resigned on Friday, saying only a "fool" or a "coward" would comply with...

(AFP) - Nearly half of an elite US epidemiology program known as the "disease detectives" were dismissed by the Trump administration on Friday, according to sources familiar with the matter,...

(AFP) - The White House said Friday it was indefinitely blocking Associated Press journalists from Air Force One and the Oval Office, escalating a row with the US news agency...

Washington (AFP) - Faulty instruments and communication problems may have caused a passenger jet and army helicopter to collide in the worst US air disaster in two decades, flight safety...

(AFP) - A growing measles outbreak in west Texas has infected 48 people, according to official state data released Friday -- the latest sign that the once-vanquished childhood disease is...

Washington (AFP) - US retail sales plunged by the most in almost two years in January -- a bigger drop than forecast and one that follows an unexpected uptick in...