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TOKYO -- Asian shares fell Thursday after heavy selling of big-name tech stocks pushed benchmarks lower on Wall Street. Stocks fell in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul and Sydney but rose in Shanghai. U.S. futures were lower. Oil prices retreated. The declines came despite a sharp upward revision in Japan’s estimated... Read more

NEW YORK -- On air quality maps, purple signifies the worst of it. In reality, it's a thick, hazardous haze that’s disrupting daily life for millions of people across the U.S. and Canada, blotting out skylines and turning skies orange.And with weather systems expected to hardly budge, the smoky blanket... Read more

DENVER -- Authorities say they have wrapped up their investigation into what started the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history and will announce their findings on Thursday.The blaze destroyed nearly 1,100 homes as heavy winds pushed it across the heavily populated suburbs between Denver and Boulder on Dec. 30, 2021.... Read more

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- At Cleveland's Urban Kutz Barbershop, customers can flip through magazines as they wait, or help themselves to drug screening tests left out in a box on a table with a somber message: “Your drugs could contain fentanyl. Please take free test strips.”Owner Waverly Willis has given out... Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden has invited thousands of LGBTQ+ individuals to celebrate Pride Month in a high-profile show of support at a time when the community feels under attack like never before and the White House has little recourse to beat back a flood state-level legislation against them. Biden... Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Connecticut’s Democratic-controlled General Assembly passed protections for abortion providers and gave more power to libraries facing book challenges — and they did it with Republican support.All but 13 Republicans voted for the $51 billion two-year state budget and a handful even voted for a major gun control... Read more

WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is welcoming Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for wide-ranging talks on Thursday as the British leader makes his first White House visit as premier.The leaders' Oval Office talks are expected to cover the war in Ukraine, China, economic security, international cooperation on regulating... Read more

NEW YORK -- After a trio of new announcements this week, the Republican Party's 2024 presidential field is all but set.A handful of stragglers may jump in later, but as of now there are at least 10 high-profile Republican candidates officially seeking their party's nomination. And with the announcement phase... Read more

WASHINGTON -- As it pushes to renew a cornerstone law that authorizes major surveillance programs, the Biden administration faces an American public that's broadly skeptical of common intelligence practices and of the need to sacrifice civil liberties for security. Congress in the coming months will debate whether to extend Section... Read more

When Pam Knox walked into the peach orchard at the University of Georgia horticulture farm this spring, there was nothing on the trees except leaves and a couple of brown fruits — the result of one of the state's warmest winters ever followed by two nights of freezing weather in... Read more

The thick, hazardous haze blanketing the Northeast disrupting daily life for millions of people across the U.S. and Canada could persist until the weekend, a U.S. National Weather Service meteorologist said. The weather system that’s driving the great Canadian-American smoke out,  a low-pressure system over Maine and Nova Scotia, "will probably... Read more

President Biden offered additional resources to Canada during a phone call with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday as historic wildfires rage through the country, pushing smoke into American states as far south as North Carolina.The president has directed all available federal firefighting assets to be deployed in efforts to... Read more

Missing Minnesota mom Madeline Kingsbury's family say they believe "the right person is in custody," after police confirmed the arrest of the father and former partner of the 26-year-old who mysteriously disappeared in March, Fox News Digital has learned. "The family believes the right person is in custody and holding out... Read more

An Austin, Texas, resident is raising awareness of the city’s homeless problem and its unseen impact on greenbelt areas.  Jamie Hammonds, an investigative filmmaker who runs the organization Documenting Austin’s Streets and Homeless, or DASH, shared videos Wednesday on Twitter, showing a homeless encampment in the Violet Crown Trail after... Read more

A fugitive wanted in the fatal shooting of three people, including two children who’d been playing with kittens in the backyard of their Pennsylvania home, has been captured in Philadelphia, federal officials said Wednesday.The U.S. Marshals Service said Ivan Claudio Rosero, 27, was located at a park and taken into... Read more

An Oklahoma board has denied clemency for Jemaine Cannon, who was convicted of the 1995 murder of Tulsa resident Sharonda Clark.The 3-2 vote clears the way for Cannon's July execution by lethal injection."I am deeply disheartened that the act of defending my life and the acts that she initiated against... Read more

A man convicted of sexually attacking and fatally stabbing two young Phoenix women in separate killings in the early 1990s was sentenced to death by a judge Wednesday.Bryan Patrick Miller, 50, was convicted in April on two counts of first-degree murder, kidnapping and attempted sexual assault.He had waived his right... Read more

George Winston, the Grammy-winning pianist who blended jazz, classical, folk and other stylings on such million-selling albums as "Autumn," "Winter Into Spring" and "December," has died at age 73.According to an announcement on his website www.georgewinston.com, confirmed by a spokesman, Winston died Sunday after a 10-year battle with cancer.MARTIN AMIS,... Read more

A man police say gunned down a woman outside an Austin-area gas station last week has been charged with murder, and the woman's family says the killing should be investigated as a hate crime as she was targeted because she was gay.Akira Ross, 24, was fatally shot Friday night while... Read more

A report on the Chesapeake Bay released Tuesday found strong disparities between communities in different parts of the bay's watershed in terms of health, economics and social justice concerns.The findings show a larger context for the challenges of improving the health of the nation's largest estuary, since this was the... Read more