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Santa Fe (United States) (AFP) - Alec Baldwin's trial for involuntary manslaughter over a fatal shooting on the set of Western movie "Rust" got under way Tuesday with the selection...

Cape Coral (United States) (AFP) - Fernando Dayan Jorge Enriquez, a champion sprint canoeist who fled his native Cuba two years ago, feels sick but still wakes up early to...

New York (AFP) - Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein may face new sexual assault charges ahead of his retrial this fall, Manhattan prosecutors said Tuesday. Authorities are investigating "additional violent...

Houston (AFP) - At least eight people were killed in the southern United States after storm Beryl felled trees and caused heavy flooding, before being downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone...

Santa Fe (United States) (AFP) - Alec Baldwin arrived at a New Mexico courthouse on Tuesday for the start of his long-awaited involuntary manslaughter trial over a fatal shooting on...

Washington (AFP) - The US Federal Reserve is making "modest" progress in its inflation fight, the head of the US central bank told lawmakers Tuesday, on the first of two days...

Washington (AFP) - Patients taking Eli Lilly's new drug Mounjaro achieved significantly greater weight loss than those on Novo Nordisk's Ozempic, a head-to-head study published Monday showed.  Researchers analyzed the...

Houston (AFP) - A flood watch was in place Tuesday across multiple US states as tropical depression Beryl lashes the country's south with heavy rain after killing at least four...

Houston (AFP) - Beryl was downgraded Monday evening to a tropical depression after slamming the southern US state of Texas as a Category 1 hurricane, killing at least four people...

Washington (AFP) - US aviation regulators said Monday that thousands of Boeing 737 airplanes would need to be inspected, amid concerns that passenger oxygen masks could fail in emergencies. The...