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Cubans who protested over power cuts in August 2022 have been sentenced to up to 15 years in jail.

The secretary of state calls Israel's latest offer for a hostage release "extraordinarily generous".

A federal judge laced into an ex-National Security Agency worker who admitted to attempting to sell classified secrets to Russia, sentencing the "treasonous" former U.S. intelligence employee to 21 years in prison.

U.S. District Judge Raymond Moore said he could have put Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 32, behind bars for even longer, calling the 262-month sentence "mercy" for what he saw as a calculated action to take the job at the NSA in order to be able to sell national security secrets. The nearly 22-year sentence was the same as what prosecutors...

WNBA star Brittney Griner reflected on learning she was going to be released from Russian prison and voiced her support for bringing other Americans home.

The third week of former President Donald Trump's New York criminal trial will kick off Tuesday with continued testimony from its third witness, bank executive Gary Farro.

Farro testified last Friday that Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney, was his client when Cohen wired $130,000 in "hush money" to Stormy Daniels' lawyer days before the 2016 election.

Farro worked at First Republic Bank when Cohen paid Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump. Prosecutors say the arrangement was intended to...

Sending money across borders, particularly in Africa, can still be expensive.

The first week of testimony at Donald Trump's hush money trial was the scene-setter for jurors: Manhattan prosecutors portrayed what they say was an illegal scheme to influence the 2016 presidential campaign by burying negative stories. Now prosecutors are working on filling in the details of how they believe Trump and his allies pulled it off.

Court resumes Tuesday with Gary Farro, a banker who helped Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen open accounts, including one that Cohen used to buy the silence of porn performer Stormy Daniels. She alleged a...

A man has been arrested after driving a car into a home in east London before getting out and attacking members of the public with a sword, according to police.

James Waller, a 22-year veteran of the force, was critically injured and remained hospitalized on Monday, law enforcement said.

U.S. Navy sailors aboard nuclear-powered submarines have long trained in the Arctic, learning to hunt their Russian counterparts in case of war. But America’s sub force is sharpening its combat skills at the edge of the world as Russia expands military operations there.

One day in March, the black metal sail of a 360-foot attack sub armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles and torpedoes punched through the dense ice of the Beaufort Sea during Operation Ice Camp.

For many of the 152 sailors on board the U.S.S. Hampton, it is their first patrol.

In the...

Kimberly Jolasun, a 32-year-old entrepreneur in Atlanta, has never voted for the Republican candidate for the presidency. That may be about to change.

Her company, Villie, is an online platform that lets new parents share photos and updates about their babies with friends and relatives and register for gifts like strollers and playpens. Not yet profitable, her company needs financing to grow. But venture capitalists struggle with her untraditional profile, she said. Technology is dominated by white men in places like Silicon Valley and Austin...

The historic and unprecedented criminal trial of former President Trump is set to resume for its third week Tuesday.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged the former president with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.

Trump pleaded not guilty.

So far, opening statements have been delivered by Trump’s defense attorneys and prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

NY V. TRUMP: TABLOID PUBLISHER TESTIFIES HE BOUGHT STORIES ON TIGER WOODS, EX-OBAMA CHIEF OF STAFF

Trump defense attorneys say the...

The already narrowly divided Senate could see more gridlock in 2025, with several of the less partisan lawmakers from both sides of the aisle departing.

As Sens. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., each prepare to leave the Senate, questions loom over the upper chamber's future ability to legislate across party lines.

"The Senate is trending to be much more of a hostile atmosphere as more moderate or independent-minded senators are retiring," said Republican strategist Ron Bonjean, former top spokesperson to...

A spokesperson for a Democrat mayor is defending a recent meeting with a controversial Chinese diplomat, who has repeatedly praised the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

"Met with Philadelphia's Mayor Parker together with Tianjin’s Executive Deputy Mayor Liu Guiping," Huang Ping, who's been the consul general of China's New York Consulate since 2018, recently posted on X.

"Exchanges at the subnational level keeps fueling China-US relations. Let's keep it going," he added.

Over the last year, Huang has appeared at several prominent universities to...

Donald J. Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial had barely begun when he started to turn his anger toward his lead lawyer, Todd Blanche.

Although Mr. Blanche has been Mr. Trump’s favorite lawyer for some time, behind closed doors and in phone calls, the former president has complained repeatedly about him in recent weeks, according to four people familiar with the situation.

He has griped that Mr. Blanche, a former federal prosecutor and veteran litigator, has not been following his instructions closely, and has been insufficiently aggressive. Mr. Trump...