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LOS ANGELES — One person is dead after a car exploded in Palm Springs, California, a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation said. “This was a powerful explosion,” the source said, describing a very large debris field and damages to multiple businesses nearby. The identity and involvement of the …

Former New England Patriots football coach Bill Belichick is hoping to set the record straight on his working relationship with his 24-year-old girlfriend, Jordon Hudson. In an interview on “The Pivot Podcast” to promote his new book, “The Art of Winning: Lessons From a Life in Football,” on Friday, Belichick spoke in …

The day before Tiffany Slaton’s 28th birthday, she was looking forward to eating a pack of Dunkaroos — cookies with frosting dip — that she’d saved as a makeshift birthday cake. It was the only real food she had left after surviving 24 days lost in the Sierra Nevada mountains, …

Pedro Pascal, one of the stars of Ari Aster’s new modern Western “Eddington,” spoke carefully at the Cannes Film Festival when asked about recent deportations in the U.S. The A24 film, which will release in July, is set during the Covid-19 pandemic and involves “a standoff between a small-town sheriff …

President Donald Trump on Saturday said that he’ll speak separately to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday as he ramps up efforts to help the two nations reach a ceasefire. “I will be speaking, by telephone, to President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Monday, at …

A gunman entered a Las Vegas Athletic Club on Friday and shot multiple people, killing one and injuring several others. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a news release they arrived to the gym Friday afternoon after receiving reports of a shooting. Upon arrival, police said the gunman …

A judge’s ruling to resentence Erik and Lyle Menendez last week gave the siblings something they’ve not had in more than three decades: a chance that they could leave the Southern California prison where they’re incarcerated. The brothers, who had been serving life sentences without the possibility of parole after …

Iran’s president said his country will continue talks with the United States over its rapidly advancing nuclear program but will not withdraw from its rights because of U.S. threats. “We are negotiating, and we will negotiate, we are not after war but we do not fear any threat,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said …

On red carpets from Los Angeles to the French Riviera, Sean “Diddy” Combs and the R&B singer Cassie intertwined arms, radiating an attractive and carefree façade for the cameras. But behind closed doors, she said, she “felt trapped.” In the first week of testimony in Combs’ federal sex trafficking trial …

BALTIMORE — Sovereignty is not running out of that starting gate in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, two weeks after winning the Kentucky Derby. Yet he is still the talk of Pimlico Race Course this week. That is because owners and trainer Bill Mott opted to skip the Preakness and …