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Police are still searching for the gunman who killed the head of a major American health insurance company in New York on Wednesday in what the city's top officer described as a "brazen targeted attack."

The long-running gang and racketeering trial that led Atlanta rapper Young Thug to plead guilty in October ended on Tuesday with the last two defendants found not guilty of racketeering, murder and gang-related charges.

Israeli tanks pushed into northern parts of the Khan Younis area, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, and Palestinian medics said Israeli airstrikes had killed at least 47 people across the enclave.

Cuba said it was generating only enough electricity to cover about one-sixth of peak demand late on Wednesday, hours after its national grid collapsed leaving millions without power.

The search for a woman who is believed to have fallen into a sinkhole in western Pennsylvania is moving into a recovery effort after two days of searching produced no signs of life, authorities said Wednesday.

Some 135 people were killed in a crush at a soccer stadium in southeast Guinea on Sunday, a local group of human rights organizations said, sharing an estimated death toll more than twice as high as the official toll of 56.

Kendrick Lamar and SZA announced Tuesday that they will tour together next spring and summer, playing 19 stadiums across North America, including a lone Canadian stop in Toronto.

The U.S. government said Tuesday it has closed its investigation into an E. coli outbreak tied to McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers after determining there is no longer a safety risk.

Israel threatened on Tuesday to return to war in Lebanon if its truce with Hezbollah collapses — and said this time its attacks would go deeper and target the Lebanese state itself, after the deadliest day since the ceasefire was reached last week.

A Hawaii woman who vanished after landing in Los Angeles three weeks ago was seen crossing into Mexico with her luggage, police said at a news conference where they urged her to contact her distraught family.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s government early Wednesday lifted the martial law he imposed during a tense night of political drama in which troops surrounded parliament and lawmakers voted to reject military rule.

Sex workers in Belgium will now be treated like any other worker in the country, with access to employment contracts, maternity leave, health benefits, pensions and more.

The retaking of Aleppo marks the first major development in years in Syria's grinding civil war, which had largely fallen from the world's headlines. It also raises fresh questions about the opposing sides, who supports them, and what might happen next. Here's what we know.

A Winnipeg man has been charged with first-degree murder of an American woman 27 years ago in New Jersey and extradited to the U.S.

The French government appears but certain to collapse later this week after far-right and left-wing parties submitted no-confidence motions on Monday against Prime Minister Michel Barnier.

A Stellantis joint venture with Samsung SDI has won a commitment from the U.S. government for up to a $7.54 billion loan to help build two electric vehicle battery plants in Kokomo, Ind.

One of two men who was indicted along with rapper Young Thug and is awaiting a jury verdict was stabbed in jail but is expected to be in court Monday, his lawyer said.