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President Joe Biden on Friday defended what he said was a “difficult decision” to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine, a move the administration said was key to the fight and buttressed by Ukraine’s promise to use the controversial bombs carefully. The decision comes on the eve of the NATO summit in Lithuania, where Biden is…

Community activists held a vigil to honor the life of 2-year-old Wynter Cole Smith after her body was found dumped in an overgrown alley on Detroit’s east side Wednesday night. “Raise your hands if you were impacted by what happened to baby Wynter,” said activist Oliver Gantt. The whole crowd raised their hands for the toddler who…

At the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, the aging men known by their serial numbers arrived at the meeting shackled. Every single one told the visitor — for many the first independent person they had talked to in 20 years — “You came too late.” But they still talked, about the scant contacts with…

The mercenary leader who led a short-lived mutiny against the Kremlin is in Russia and his troops are in their field camps, the president of Belarus said Thursday, raising new questions about the deal that ended the extraordinary challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s rule. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s claim could not be independently verified, and…

The body of Wynter Cole Smith, 2, of Lansing, was found Wednesday night in a Detroit alley, nearly three days after an Amber Alert was issued due to her abduction. Detroit police said they were performing a grid search between I-94 and Van Duke Avenue on Wednesday evening, July 5, when they discovered the girl’s…

At least 16 people, including three children, were killed by a leak of a toxic nitrate gas being used by illegal miners to process gold in a settlement of closely packed metal shacks, South African police and local officials said late Wednesday. Emergency services initially announced that as many as 24 people might be dead…

Russian fighter jets flew dangerously close to several U.S. drone aircraft over Syria on Wednesday, setting off flares and forcing the MQ-9 Reapers to take evasive maneuvers, the Air Force said. U.S. Air Forces Central released a video of the encounter, showing a Russian SU-35 fighter closing in on a Reaper, and later showed a…

One person was taken to the hospital, while several others were hurt after some fireworks were erratically shot into the crowd that was watching the City of Allegan’s fireworks show. The incident occurred Tuesday (July 4) in Allegan County. Cellphone footage captured the moment when the fireworks landed in the crowd, forcing people to run…

The entire planet sweltered to the unofficial hottest day in human recordkeeping July 3, according to University of Maine scientists at the Climate Reanalyzer project. High temperature records were surpassed July 3 and 4 in Quebec and northwestern Canada and Peru. Cities across the U.S. from Medford, Oregon to Tampa, Florida have been hovering at…

The television actor Allison Mack, who pleaded guilty for her role in a sex-trafficking case tied to the cult-like group NXIVM, has been released from a California prison, according to a government website. Mack, best known for her role as a young Superman’s close friend on “Smallville,” was sentenced to three years behind bars in…