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It's been a week since a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Turkey and Syria, claiming the lives of more than 36,000 people. Many tens of thousands more have been injured. Millions may be left homeless.

I live in Philadelphia and, though I'm not a native, I've made my home here for many years. So I don't even have to look out the window of where I am now to know how much the city's heart is aching.

In January, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced plans to ban the College Board's Advanced Placement African American studies pilot course in his state, saying that the curriculum had a political agenda. The College Board has since revised the course amid a storm of controversy — and strong evidence that DeSantis' administration had a direct influence on the decision to gut it. The outcome, sadly, has meant diminished national education standards for this vitally important coursework.

Everyone seems to be in a bit of a debt bind at the moment: The US government has run out of credit to spend, high inflation and interest rates have taken a big bite out of debt-laden tech companies that expected pandemic-era growth to continue and US credit card debt reached nearly $1 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to TransUnion.

China said Sunday it was preparing to shoot down an unidentified object flying near its eastern coast, just hours before US fighter jets took out a third object in three days in the airspace above the United States and Canada.

Every time Abdulrahman Al-Dahhan closes his eyes at night, he hears the screams of friends and family in Syria pleading for help.

When Ben Ratner's family signed up in 2021 to be extras in the movie "White Noise," they thought it would be a fun distraction from their day-to-day life in blue-collar East Palestine, Ohio.

Three airborne objects in North American airspace were shot from the sky by the US military In the span of three days this past weekend at the direction of President Joe Biden. But as Americans confronted an extraordinary series of headlines about those missions, the president offered no explanation -- or reassurance -- to the public over the weekend.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured images of a mysterious show playing out on Saturn's rings — ghostly, fleeting "spokes" that appear to move along the planet's rings. And scientists can't yet explain why the phenomena happen.

Valentine's Day is almost here, and yet there seems to be more stress and viral particles in the air than love.

The 2024 Senate map presents a daunting challenge for Democrats. Time will tell if it proves to be insurmountable.

An onyx sea, white rippled through inky black, foams away in the moonlight. Grasping for sand it whispers and burbles, as if talking to the shore.

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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has sold its remaining stake in Paytm, India's top digital payment app, as it gradually divests from its Indian investments amid friction between Beijing and New Delhi.

• The Super Bowl halftime show, in photos • Rihanna wows Super Bowl in all-red ensemble • Rihanna's Super Bowl halftime show makes us feel like she's the only girl in the world