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Citigroup on Tuesday ended a seven-year-old policy restricting how it provides banking services to firearm manufacturers, sellers and resellers. The bank launched the policy in March 2018 after a teenage gunman killed 17 people and injured more than a dozen in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School …

A Wisconsin man has been charged with forging letters seeking to frame and deport another man who was a potential witness against him in a criminal robbery case. Demetric D. Scott, 52, allegedly sent letters claiming to be from Ramón Morales Reyes that threatened to kill Donald Trump and bashed …

She’s a runner, she’s a track star…she’s somersaulting over the finish line? High school athlete Brooklyn Anderson was running hurdles in a track and field championship in Eugene, Oregon, and seconds away from the finish line when she tripped. Video from the event shows Anderson hopping a hurdle and knocking …

A liberal lawyer has ousted South Korea’s troubled ruling party’s presidential candidate on Tuesday, ending months of political instability that began with a botched declaration of martial law. A joint exit poll by three major broadcasters, KBS, MBC and SBS, showed that, with 51.7% of the vote, Lee Jae-myung was …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Activists on Monday celebrated a decision by Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court to allow nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people to update their birth certificates. The ruling comes after a group of six nonbinary people filed a lawsuit against Puerto Rico’s governor, its health secretary and other officials. …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the biggest event of its kind this year as it heads toward the United States. The cloud extended some 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) from Jamaica to well past …

Its publication also suggests that Western intelligence agencies are correct in their belief that Putin is not interested in compromise. The memorandum codifies what Putin has been saying all along — that the “root causes” of the war are NATO’s eastward expansion and fomenting Nazism in Ukraine. The memorandum is …

Public disagreements with some key U.S. trading partners threaten to undermine negotiations. South Koreans are set to elect a new president. And a family fights for change after a 22-year-old man’s death from an asthma attack, days after he was unable to afford an inhaler. Here’s what to know today. …

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Over 200 inmates escaped from a prison in Pakistan on Monday after a series of earthquakes shook the southern port city of Karachi and set off panic, local authorities said. More than 600 inmates at Malir prison were being transferred to another section of the facility for …

Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders’ PVV party left the governing coalition Tuesday, in a move that is set to topple the right wing government and will likely lead to new elections. Wilders said his coalition partners were not willing to support his ideas on halting asylum migration. “No signature under …