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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has been admitted to a hospital in the capital, Riyadh, for medical tests due to inflammation of the gallbladder, the kingdom’s Royal Court said Monday in a statement carried by the official Sa

TOKYO — A United Arab Emirates spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a seven-month journey to Mars, kicking off the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission.

There were plenty of acorns this spring, and now the chipmunks are driving people nuts. Their frenetic activities can be entertaining.

Of all the ways that John Lewis influenced American life and politics, his indelible impact on young people may be among the most enduring.

LONDON — Princess Beatrice wore a vintage dress loaned to her by her grandmother Queen Elizabeth II at her wedding to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, Buckingham Palace said Saturday as it released official photographs from the private family event.

LAWSON, Mo. — A dog named Cleo who disappeared from her home in Kansas earlier this month turned up a few days later at her old home in Missouri, about 50 miles (80 kilometres ) away.

TORONTO — The Blue Jays will find out Saturday whether the Canadian government allows them to play regular-season games in Toronto amid the coronavirus pandemic.

ATLANTA — John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, has died. He was 80.

WASHINGTON — Here are some snapshots from what President Donald Trump describes as the nation with the “best testing in the world" for the coronavirus: In Sun Belt states where the virus is surging, lines of cars with people seeking tests snake for h

SAN FRANCISCO — With the first day of school just weeks away in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom laid out sweeping new rules Friday that all but ensure most of the state’s K-12 schools serving 6.