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Detained journalist Roman Protasevich has again appeared on Belarusian state media, to the concern of government critics who fear the young dissident is being forced to address the nation under duress. The 26-year-old told Belarusian state TV channel ONT on Thursday that he has “pleaded guilty” to organizing large-scale “unsanctioned protests” following the country’s disputed

About 10 to 14% of the world’s giant sequoia trees were destroyed by a single wildfire that swept through California’s Sequoia National Forest last summer, a new draft report from the National Park Service indicates. The report, which has not yet been made publicly available, used satellite images to show the shocking impact the Castle

Police officers were in for a shock when they responded to an early Wednesday morning traffic accident in Utah between a four-door sedan and a semi-truck. The driver and passenger in the car were both children. Officers arrived at around 5 a.m. on Wednesday “and discovered the person behind the wheel was a 9-year-old girl,”

Authorities are seeking the public’s help in the search for an 11-year-old boy who remains missing in Central Iowa after hundreds of people spent part of Memorial Day weekend looking for him. Xavior Harrelson was reported missing May 27 in Montezuma, Iowa, nearly 60 miles east of Des Moines, the Poweshiek County Sheriff’s Office said

Miami-Dade Police released surveillance video that shows three masked suspects who they say opened fire at a crowd outside a concert venue in southern Florida on Sunday, leaving three people dead and at least 20 others wounded. The shooting stemmed from an ongoing rivalry between two different groups, Miami-Dade Homicide Bureau Maj. Jorge Aguiar said

F. Lee Bailey, the prominent defense attorney who represented many high-profile clients, including O.J. Simpson, died Thursday at age 87. His death was confirmed to CNN by Jennifer Sisson, a manager at Bailey’s consulting firm. Sisson described Bailey as “a great man.” Bailey was part of the so-called “dream team” of famous local and national

Minneapolis city workers early Thursday removed parts of a memorial at the intersection where George Floyd took his final breaths, as the city stated its plans to create a permanent memorial and reopen the area to through-traffic. On Thursday morning, multiple workers could be seen moving cement barricades in the intersection of Chicago Avenue and

A high school valedictorian exhaled as she pulled a piece of paper from underneath her graduation gown. Gathering her courage, Paxton Smith started the speech she had worked so hard on for her graduation on Sunday. But the speech the 18-year-old gave ended up being an entirely different speech than she had planned, and that