LOS ANGELES — A 4-year-old girl was fatally mauled this week by a dog in Visalia, authorities said.

Officers responded shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday to a home in the 2300 block of West Monte Vista Avenue in the San Joaquin Valley city midway between Bakersfield and Fresno, authorities wrote in a statement on Facebook.

The child had finished...Read more

ATLANTA — A coalition of Republican officials that includes Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr wants to substantially weaken a key provision of the federal Voting Rights Act — a crowning achievement of the civil rights movement.

For decades groups and advocates have filed lawsuits to enforce Section 2 of the act, which prohibits racial ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump pledged on Saturday to make it too costly for countries to shift away from using the U.S. dollar, adding a new pillar to his tariff platform.

“You leave the dollar and you’re not doing business with the United States because we are going to put a 100% tariff on your goods,” the Republican presidential nominee ...Read more

CHICAGO — After possible bullet holes were discovered at the Muslim Community Center this week, the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations announced Saturday that they are calling upon police to investigate the incident as a potential hate crime.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations wrote in their news release that ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It’s been an eventful two weeks in the ongoing saga of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration versus Floridians who love state parks.

DeSantis on Aug. 28 aimed to distance himself from controversial park plans and announced that the state Department of Environmental Protection was putting the effort, known as the “...Read more

ATLANTA — Roger Goodell was in Brazil when he learned about the shooting at Apalachee High School.

The NFL commissioner traveled abroad to attend Friday’s game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers. After hearing about the shooting, Goodell was pulled to read everything he could find about Ricky Aspinwall, a 39-year-old ...Read more

Venezuela’s government, whose brutal crackdown on dissent is rattling Latin American allies, threatened to go after opposition campaign workers who have sheltered in the Argentine embassy for months.

Dozens of President Nicolás Maduro’s agents stationed themselves outside the embassy in Caracas on Friday night, though as of Saturday ...Read more

WINDER, Ga. — Morning arrived Saturday like so many others. Slightly cool, a hint of fall under the rays of the golden sun.

People ran errands and met friends for coffee and early lunches. But everywhere in this northeast Georgia community — the marquee outside the movie theater, the Walgreens in downtown, front lawns throughout Barrow ...Read more

Iran would signal a “dramatic escalation” of support for Russia by providing ballistic missiles to aid its war in Ukraine, Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns said.

Burns and his U.K. counterpart, Richard Moore, warned during a joint appearance in London that military cooperation between the two countries is deepening.

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CHICAGO — A Wisconsin poultry company has issued a recall for eggs sold in Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin after they were found to be contaminated with a strain of salmonella that has sickened 65 people.

On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Food Safety Alert for the recalled eggs from Milo’s Poultry Farms LLC...Read more

BOSTON — Karen Read maintained her innocence in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, in a risky interview with ABC’s “20/20” television newsmagazine that aired Friday night.

“I felt like I’d had alcohol, I felt that I had a buzz, but I did not feel it was unsafe to be operating my vehicle,” Read, who ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A pair of modest earthquakes rattled Southern California on Saturday morning, with epicenters in Ontario.

The earthquakes, of magnitudes 3.5 and 3.9, occurred within about a half hour of each other. Shaking was felt as far away as the city of Los Angeles, Orange County and northern San Diego County, according to crowdsourcing ...Read more

As soon as Islamic extremists were identified as having carried out four deadly, coordinated attacks on U.S. soil in the early morning of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta started hearing calls from the public to ban Arab Americans and Muslims from all flights – and even to round them up and detain them.

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Ukraine’s daring offensive into Russia’s Kursk region impressed Kyiv’s allies with its quick initial success, upending perceptions the war had settled into a stalemate and exposing the hollowness of Vladimir Putin’s vows to defend his territory at all costs.

But a month into the operation, U.S. and European officials still question what...Read more

Back in 2016, it was evident that Russian President Vladimir Putin was Team Trump. Top Kremlin officials cracked open champagne bottles in the early hours of Nov. 9 as the businessman-turned-politician emerged as the surprise victor in the U.S. election.

When it comes to determining where the Russian leader stands today, there is no easy answer...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Colleges were bracing for a decline in Black and Latino freshmen at many of the nation's elite institutions following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last year to ban race-conscious decisions.

Nationally, so far, that appears to be the case at some schools: Amherst College, a small liberal arts school in Massachusetts, ...Read more