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More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19 relief initiatives. That's according to new estimates from a federal watchdog investigating federally funded programs designed to help small businesses survive the worst public health crisis in more than a hundred years.

More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19 relief initiatives. That's according to new estimates from a federal watchdog investigating federally funded programs designed to help small businesses survive the worst public health crisis in more than a hundred years.

"The de facto relocation of Russian forces, the Wagner Group, to Belarus, together with its head Yevgeny Prigozhin, is underway. These are very negative signals for us," Polish President Andrzej Duda said.

Canadian wildfire smoke is infiltrating the Midwest on Tuesday and the air in Chicago has deteriorated to the Air Quality Index's "very unhealthy" category.

The AQI in hazy Chicago reached 250 on Tuesday afternoon. Any number over 100 is considered unhealthy for sensitive groups.

A 17-year-old is shot dead near Paris in broad daylight after failing to obey traffic police.

A tourist filmed carving his and his girlfriend’s name into the walls of the Roman Colosseum faces a huge fine as Italian authorities vow to find the man.

A tourist holidaying in Jamaica has died after attempting to drink all 21 cocktails on a bar’s drinks menu, an inquest has heard.

Raymond Mattia’s family said the partial release of body camera footage “feels like a cheap attempt to justify what they did.”

The NSW District Court hears ex-Newtown Jets rugby league player is guilty of carnal knowledge, related to sexual activity with one of his high school students in the 1980s.

Smoke from wildland fires in Canada traversed the Atlantic Ocean and drifted over European countries including Portugal and Spain.

Turns out Russian-on-Russian violence wasn't good for anyone.

Sergei Lavrov moves to reassure sub-Saharan allies after recent armed mutiny led by Yevgeny Prigozhin

The woman claims the Massachusetts facility failed to diagnose her pregnancy as ectopic and, as a result, she lost a fallopian tube during emergency surgery.

A new report by one of Meta's largest global partners shows life-endangering oversights at scale in the company's content-moderation strategy.

The 27-year-old airport worker took his own life in San Antonio on Friday, the local medical examiner said. The incident marked the second fatal aviation engine ingestion so far this year.

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The teenager who was trying to pick up his brothers had gone to the wrong Kansas City address in April, when homeowner Andrew Lester opened fire on him through the door.

Lester had told police he was afraid when he pulled the trigger.

Lester has been charged by prosecutors with felony first-degree assault and armed criminal action. He's pleaded not guilty to all charges.

The Office of Inspector General of the Small Business Administration has released a "landscape of fraud" report highlighting why 17% of PPP and other loans appear bogus.

Two weeks after Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly promised to increase Canada’s presence abroad, she's shutting down an arctic centre

Ford’s views on Chow have gone from her being “an unmitigated disaster” last Wednesday to “someone I have had a good relationship with” on Tuesday.

The pace of deforestation increased 10 percent in 2022, but there are signs the trajectory may change for the better in the near future.

A United Nations report has accused Russia of summarily executing 77 civilians who were being held in arbitrary detention during its war in Ukraine. The report also documented more than 900 cases of arbitrary detention of civilians, including children and elderly people, with the vast majority of these cases perpetrated by Russia. The report’s findings were based on 1,136 interviews with victims, witnesses and others, plus 274 site visits and 70 visits to official places of detention run by Ukrainian authorities. The report comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin paid tribute to pilots who he said were killed fighting an aborted mutiny, while thanking Russians for showing patriotic solidarity in the face of the Wagner militia group's march on Moscow.

This was Israel's largest seizure of cryptocurrency from those groups to date, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said.

BOSTON (AP) — A suspect was arrested Monday in the weekend killings of three people, a Boston-area husband and wife celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary and the woman’s 97-year-old mother, authorities said.

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said police took Christopher Ferguson into custody and charged him with killing 73-year-old Gilda “Jill” D’Amore after an autopsy revealed her death was a homicide. Ferguson also was charged with two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury, and burglary.

Additional charges were expected in the death of 74-year-old Bruno D’Amore and his mother-in-law, Lucia Arpino, after those autopsies are completed. Ferguson was expected to appear in court Tuesday or Wednesday. It wasn’t immediately clear if he had an attorney who could comment on his behalf.

SALMON — A Lemhi County father is charged with first-degree murder for the death of his 2-month-old daughter. Roger Aaron Denig, 21, is being held in the Lemhi County Jail on $500,000 bail after appearing before Magistrate Judge Andrew Woolf on Monday afternoon. The investigation began when the Lemhi County Sheriff’s Office received a call …