LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Laurel County Sheriff’s Office said “numerous” people were shot near Interstate 75 Saturday night.

“I-75 is closed at mile marker/Exit 49, and U.S. 25, nine miles north of London due to an active shooter situation,” the agency said in a Facebook post just before 7 p.m.

The suspect was still at large as of about...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

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center increased the chances a tropical wave moving into the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 p.m. forecast, the system was over the Bay of Campeche with disorganized showers and thunderstorms but expected to interact with...Read more

Prime Minister Keir Starmer blamed his Conservative predecessors for leaving England’s health service in a “broken” state, in his latest effort to frame the political narrative ahead of what’s expected to be a difficult budget proposal next month.

Successive Tory-led governments dealt “unforgiveable” damage to the National Health ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A man suspected of firing multiple rounds in an apartment building is in critical but stable condition after Minneapolis authorities shot him, according to police.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said an officer shot the man in the jaw after reports of a shooting on the 4000 block of Minnehaha Avenue. That officer, and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A former employee of a Pasadena businessman whose company made billions of dollars selling COVID-19 tests was ordered Friday to stand trial, along with two alleged accomplices, for attempting to extort $20 million from him by threatening to post sex tapes online.

Sunny Xiaolei Sun, 41, a former employee of Pasaca Capital, and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As the land continues to shift under neighborhoods near the oceanside cliffs of Rancho Palos Verdes, an additional 54 homes will have their power cut off.

The announcement from Southern California Edison came as around 170 other homes in the area were already without power, some indefinitely. That includes about 140 homes in the...Read more

[Editor’s note: This article is based on the reporting of more than 20 Atlanta Journal-Constitution journalists].

WINDOR, Ga. — This time it happened on a campus here.

On Georgia soil.

On the 23rd day of the school year at Apalachee High.

On the southwest side of the city of Winder — 37.1 miles east-northeast across Stone Mountain from...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The record-breaking heat wave pummeling Southern California will continue through the weekend, delivering a miserable combination of triple-digit highs and unrelenting overnight heat.

The National Weather Service in Oxnard said Saturday morning that “dangerously hot conditions” will continue in the region through Monday. On ...Read more

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