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Joro spiders were first found in the U.S. in 2014. Since then, the invasive species that's native to east Asia has been spotted in several states.
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Joro spiders were first found in the U.S. in 2014. Since then, the invasive species that's native to east Asia has been spotted in several states.
Leaders of the Maine gunman's unit said he was "behaving erratically" while training at the U.S. Military Academy in New York last summer.
Authorities pressed their manhunt for Robert Card, the suspect in the shooting that killed 18 people and injured 13 more at a restaurant and bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine.
Authorities said they identified a suspect after the gunfire in Lewiston and asked people in at least three communities to shelter in place.
Off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph Emerson caused a San Francisco-bound flight to make an emergency diversion to Oregon, authorities said.
An Alaska Airlines flight made an emergency diversion to Portland, Oregon, after an off-duty pilot in the cockpit unsuccessfully tried to shut down the plane's engines midflight.
The freed U.S. hostages are Judith and Natalie Shoshana Raanan from suburban Chicago, officials announced.
Joran van der Sloot's confession that he killed Natalee Holloway ended the nearly two-decade-old mystery about what happened to the Alabama teenager who disappeared in Aruba in 2005.
Joran van der Sloot was charged in 2010 with trying to extort $250,000 from Natalee Holloway's mother Beth Holloway in exchange for information about her missing daughter's remains.
Taylor Swift traded her movie premiere's red carpet for red Kansas City Chiefs gear as the singer-songwriter cheered on tight end Travis Kelce and the defending Super Bowl champions once again.
Americans who haven't been able to evacuate from Israel since the deadly attacks by Hamas will get some help starting Friday, the U.S. State Department announced.
Jada Pinkett Smith told People magazine that at the time of the 2022 Oscars incident with Chris Rock she and Will Smith had been separated for six years.
Images from the grisly attack by Hamas militants in southern Israel near the Gaza Strip reveal some of the devastating aftermath from the surprise strike.
The Palestinian militant group Hamas carried out a devastating attack on Israel, which was praised by the Lebanese group Hezbollah and ignited a war with the Jewish state.
New Mexico's governor tried to temporarily ban guns from being carried in public in Albuquerque after Froylan Villegas was shot to death.