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An anonymously leaked recording of crude, racist remarks and political scheming that led to Council President Nury Martinez's resignation left behind a mystery: Who made the tape, and why?

Their mission ended Friday with a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida. SpaceX delivered their replacements to the International Space Station last week.

Trevor Milton, the wealthy founder of Nikola Corp., was convicted of deceiving investors with exaggerated claims about his company's progress in producing zero-emission 18-wheel trucks.

The Scottish actor played gentle half-giant Hagrid, a mentor to the boy wizard, in all eight Harry Potter films, released between 2001 and 2011. Coltrane died Friday at a hospital in Scotland.

Members of a group that wants to halt new oil and gas projects threw soup over the masterpiece in London's National Gallery, but caused no discernible damage to the glass-covered painting.

Prosecutors in the case of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz are calling for an investigation after a juror said she felt threatened by another member of the jury during deliberations.

Twins appear to be unusually abundant in Nigeria's southwestern city of Igbo-Ora. For the past 12 years, the community has organized an annual festival to celebrate twins.

The chairperson of an influential negotiating bloc in the upcoming U.N. climate summit has called for compensation for poorer countries suffering from climate change to be high up on the agenda.

Five people were killed by a shooter who opened fire along a walking trail in North Carolina's capital city on Thursday and eluded police for hours before he was arrested, police said.

Liliana Segre presided over the first seating of Parliament since general elections last month, when Italians voted in their first far-right government since World War II.

Two judges on India's top court on Thursday differed over a ban on the wearing of a headscarf used by Muslim women in educational institutions and referred the issue to a larger bench to settle.

The Biden administration agreed to accept up to 24,000 Venezuelan migrants at U.S. airports while Mexico has agreed to take back Venezuelans who come to the U.S. illegally over land.

A former police officer blamed for instigating a conflict that led to the fatal shooting of a Black barbecue restaurant owner during the Breonna Taylor protests has pleaded guilty in federal court.

Eric Kay was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for providing Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs the drugs that led to his overdose death in 2019.

The whales beached themselves on the Chatham Islands, about 500 miles east of New Zealand's main islands. None of the whales could be refloated and all either died naturally or were euthanized.

The class of 2022's average ACT composite score was 19.8 out of 36, marking the first time since 1991 that the average score was below 20.

Tweaked boosters rolled out for Americans 12 and older last month, modified to target today's most common and contagious variant. The latest move may expand protection before an expected winter wave.

A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted the country's ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, on more corruption charges Wednesday that leave her with a 26-year total prison term, a legal official said.

A now-former San Antonio police officer was charged Tuesday with aggravated assault by a peace officer for shooting and gravely wounding a teen eating a hamburger in his car in a parking lot.

Roof shot participants at a 2015 Bible study session at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. A panel of appellate judges had previously upheld his conviction and death sentence.