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Former President Donald Trump made comparisons Monday between the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his ongoing legal problems, saying America is a "nation in decline."

Shohei Ohtani will miss the Los Angeles Dodgers' first spring training game on Thursday as he recovers from elbow surgery, manager Dave Roberts said.

The Chinese government has announced that it will no longer respect a de facto maritime boundary with Taiwan and will expand Coast Guard activities around a Taiwan-controlled island off China's coast, following an incident in which two Chinese fishermen were killed in a sea chase with Taiwanese government vessels last week.

President Biden said Monday that his administration is considering new sanctions on Moscow over the death of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Rep. Rich McCormick, a first-term GOP lawmaker known for doing pullups on railings suspended hundreds of feet above ground in the U.S. Capitol dome during a tour, once fought off rivals known as "Turbo," "Hawk," "Laser" and "Nitro" when he was a contestant on the TV competition show "American Gladiators."

Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers signed new legislative district maps into law on Monday that he proposed and that the Republicans who control the Legislature passed to avoid having the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court draw the lines.

A shooting at a Waffle House restaurant in Indianapolis early Monday morning killed a woman and wounded five other victims, police said.

The Brooklyn Nets fired Jacque Vaughn on Monday after ending a disappointing first half of the season with a 50-point loss in Boston in their final game before the All-Star break.

Former President Donald Trump pledged Monday to overhaul a "third-world" justice system if he is elected again.

Catholic officials in New York held a Mass of Reparation on Saturday following what it called "scandalous behavior" at a Thursday funeral for an atheist transgender woman and former sex worker.

Trump-supporting truckers have refused to deliver in New York City following a judge's verdict in the former president's civil fraud case.

The polls are dreadful, her delegate count is underwhelming, and she's about to lose her home-state primary, but Nikki Haley isn't dropping her presidential bid.

The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny pledged Monday to carry on the work of her husband, urging followers to "share her rage" and help her bring about a more democratic Russia.

I started my law enforcement career back in 1968 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard as a cross-country brig chaser, transporting prisoners who had gotten out of the hospital after being wounded in Vietnam.

The military's ardent push for an artificial intelligence overhaul is taking center stage in Washington this week, where government officials will huddle with top tech minds at a gathering organized by the Department of Defense.

According to the precepts of evolution's "survival of the fittest," all living things are in competition with one another to continue themselves.

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Germany's Ursula von der Leyen will seek a second term as head of the European Union's powerful Commission in a move that could make her the most significant politician representing the bloc's 450 million citizens in over a generation.

Visitors to the Eiffel Tower were turned away on Monday because of a strike over poor financial management at one of the world's most-visited sites.

An American man on Monday admitted to charges of murder and rape after he allegedly pushed two U.S. women down a ravine, fatally injuring one of them near Germany's Neuschwanstein castle last year.

A missile attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels that damaged a Belize-flagged ship traveling through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait that connects the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden has forced the crew to abandon the ship, authorities said Monday. Another ship reportedly came under attack as well in the Gulf of Aden.

Republicans hoping to pick up an open U.S. Senate seat in deep blue Maryland have the most competitive candidate they've fielded for decades. But former Gov. Larry Hogan will need more than GOP support to overcome sustained outrage about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down constitutional protections for abortion.

The Palestinian foreign minister on Monday accused Israel of apartheid and urged the United Nations' top court to declare that Israel's occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state is illegal and must end immediately and unconditionally for any hope for a two-state future to survive.

Technology and innovation have revolutionized our lives, sometimes at lightning speed. But public education operates nearly the same as it did more than 175 years ago in the model created by Horace Mann.

The Biden administration said Monday that the government intends to provide $1.5 billion to the computer chip company GlobalFoundries to expand its domestic production in New York and Vermont.