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President Nicolás Maduro, through allies, is ratcheting up legal and political pressure on the opposition leader by removing his parliamentary immunity.

Scientists infected the cats with toxoplasmosis and later killed them. Bipartisan members of Congress complained about the practice, and the agency ended the program.

A federal court threw out the law enacted in Hot Springs, Ark., that applied to someone approaching a vehicle. The judge ruled the law violated the First Amendment’s protection on free speech.

The utility company is already on probation for its felony conviction related to a 2010 natural gas pipeline explosion.

Motorists will pay a flat daily fee to enter Manhattan south of 60th Street. The new program aims to reduce traffic gridlock while generating revenue for the city’s stressed transit system.

The woman told Secret Service agents she wanted to go to the pool. But she didn’t have a swimsuit. Then she said she wanted to attend a “United Nations” event. None was scheduled.

Tesla’s Model 3 is giving a jolt to Norway’s car market. Also in play: Norway’s lucrative incentives for owners of electric vehicles.

New York Times reporter Nicholas Casey was in Maracaibo, Venezuela, in March 2019 during a six-day power outage. “By the fourth day,” he says, “you started to hear shots getting fired in the street.”

Most beef cattle receive antibiotics in their feed to prevent liver abscesses while eating a high-energy diet. There’s growing pressure on feedlots to stop this — and some have. But it’s costly.

According to the indictment, Robin Hayes and associates promised “millions of dollars of contributions” for “official actions” favorable to the Global Bankers Insurance Group.

The Vermont senator’s campaign says it raised $18.2 million from more than 500,000 donors. Sen. Kamala Harris has raised $12 million, while South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg raised $7 million.

The Trump administration is sounding the alarm about “fake families” amid a surge of Central Americans crossing the southern border. Immigrant advocates say they’re just trying to make it to the U.S.

“That is a terrible, terrible thing to create an event that sends debris in an apogee that goes above the International Space Station,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said.

In theory no one should die of cholera. Yet 90,000 people die each year from the disease, which is surging at a historic pace in Yemen and surfacing in Mozambique in the wake of Cyclone Idai.

The LAPD has identified the suspect in rapper and entrepreneur Nipsey Hussle’s death as 29-year-old Eric Holder, a Los Angeles man. On Monday night, there was a stampede at a Nipsey Hussle vigil.

Is the 76-year-old former vice president too much a man of the last century? His basic vulnerability is being cast as a candidate of the past in a party selling itself as the party of the future.

Daphne Dunne first met Harry in 2015, when he was drawn to her because of the medals she wore from her late husband who died in World War II.

Companies are increasingly using algorithms to set their prices, but is that giving them too much power over consumers?

After back-to-back hurricanes and wildfires, insurers are looking for more-resilient construction materials. That means building model homes and then blowing off their roofs or setting them on fire.

Rugged terrain in the mountainous region of the Sichuan province, including a thick layer of forest and lack of access to water, hindered efforts to put out the fire.

Shipments from friends and family in South Florida have been a lifeline for Venezuelans. But, after months of economic and political turmoil, getting supplies to Venezuela has become more difficult.

President Trump has threatened to close the U.S. border with Mexico in response to a large number of illegal crossings. A closure would likely hit a wide range of industries, from produce to autos.

Reports of thousands of fires and a petition from a consumer advocacy group led the auto regulator to open new investigations into fires that were not sparked by a collision.

No matter who wins, Chicago will be led by an African-American woman for the first time. The free-for-all campaign has represented a sharp contrast to almost every past election in the city.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh is embroiled in a political scandal involving hundreds of thousands of dollars for her self-published children’s books. She says she needs to “focus on her health.”

The president pleaded with the public to remain calm and resist violence as the country’s top “specialists, scientists and hackers” work to put an end to power, water and communications blackouts.

Doan Thi Huong will plead guilty to a lesser charge. All charges against her Indonesian co-defendant, Siti Aisyah, were unexpectedly dropped last month. North Korea very likely ordered the killing.

A study ties an estimated 4,300 premature deaths a year to the air pollution caused by corn production in the U.S. In some regions, the per-bushel health costs exceed the corn’s market price.

Bouteflika has been in power since 1999. Instead of holding an election this month to determine who will succeed the 82-year-old leader, Algeria’s government will enter a new “transition” phase.

The short chapters in Laila Lalami’s novel are narrated by a rotating cast of characters. They conjure a murder mystery, a cross-cultural romance, an immigrant saga, war stories and family dramas.

The Israeli leader and his Likud party are waging a mudslinging campaign on social media, taking a page from the prime minister’s close ally President Trump in style and substance.