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Peruvian Prime Minister Hector Valer confirmed on Saturday that he is departing just four days after being named to the post, following allegations that he beat his daughter and late wife, creating a new leadership vacuum in the Andean nation.

The Virginia Military Institute says it will change its studentrun honor court to make it more fair to cadets as part of a response to a stateordered investigation into racism and sexism at the school.

One Navy SEAL candidate died and a second was in the hospital after falling ill just hours after they successfully completed the grueling Hell Week test that ends the first phase of assessment and selection for Navy commandos, the Navy said Saturday.

Sixteen people died in Mexico's central state of Zacatecas following an apparent violent dispute between criminal gangs, authorities said on Saturday, as the state grapples with a spike in violence.

One person was killed and four others injured in an avalanche in western Austria on Saturday, police said, a day after two other avalanches killed seven skiers as heavy snowfall followed by warmer weather made for unusually dangerous conditions.

Since the peak of its power seven years ago, when it ruled millions of people in the Middle East and struck fear across the world with deadly bombings and shootings, Islamic State has slipped back into the shadows.

The key to the Bengals latest rebuild that has led them to this most unexpected Super Bowl run starts with one player: Joe Burrow.

The Portland Trail Blazers traded Norman Powell and Robert Covington to the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday In exchange for Eric Bledsoe, Justise Winslow, rookie Keon Johnson and a secondround pick in 2025.

Former NHL enforcer Chris Nilan says he was fired from a Montreal sports radio station for refusing to get a COVID19 vaccine.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams apologized Friday after a 2019 video surfaced showing him using a racial slur for white people when talking about the New York Police Department.

Jonathan Sexton recalls in his early days as a rugby international how there was a nastier side to the Ireland-Wales rivalry; it had "a bit of bite.

Winger Paul Arriola signed a fouryear contract with Major League Soccer's Dallas team on Friday, a week after he was acquired in a trade from D.C. United.

Desmond Ridder likes to think the historic success of his Cincinnati Bearcats helped put the Bengals on the path to the Super Bowl.

The Quad foreign ministers will meet at a time when the controversial Beijing Winter Olympics are underway, and India joined the US and Australia in boycotting the games.

Art Cooley, a longtime activist who cofounded the Environmental Defense Fund more than 50 years ago, has died. Cooley, 87, helped launch the group, now one of the world's leading environmental organizations, from his living room on Long Island, N.Y., in 1...

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Thursday signed a bill that will ban transgender girls and collegeage women from playing in school sports leagues that match their gender identity, making zSouth Dakota the 10th state to enact such a law.