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One child was killed and several other people were hospitalized after a man with a sword went on a stabbing spree in northeast London early Tuesday morning, the authorities said. The child, a 13-year-old boy, died after being taken to a hospital, Stuart Bell, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police,…

When university administrators across the nation worry about the potential fallout from campus protests, they may have Siemens Hall in mind. The building at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, includes the campus president’s office and has been occupied for a week by pro-Palestinian protesters who barricaded themselves inside and fought…

Something extraordinary is happening to the European economy: Southern nations that nearly broke up the euro currency bloc during the financial crisis in 2012 are growing faster than Germany and other big countries that have long served as the region’s growth engines. The dynamic is bolstering the economic health of…

A shootout that broke out on Monday when a team of law enforcement personnel tried to serve warrants to a suspect in Charlotte, N.C., left four officers dead and another four injured. The shootout, in which the suspect was also killed, was one of the deadliest for American law enforcement…

Updated  April 30, 2024, 3:48 a.m. ET April 30, 2024, 3:48 a.m. ET Protesters at Columbia University marched across campus and occupied a building after midnight early Tuesday, hours after the university began suspending students who had failed to leave a pro-Palestinian encampment. Protesters began marching around campus to chants…

In the city of Duisburg in Germany’s industrial heartland is a vast steel complex that is one of Europe’s largest polluters. But alongside the mill’s furnaces and smelters, technicians have developed a machine that could soon play a vital role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. By using electricity to split…

He enjoyed a home-cooked dinner in Montana with a former U.S. senator. He visited Telluride, Colo., and Moab, Utah, a vacation spot known for its national parks. And he chatted about start-ups with Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI. After pleading guilty to a money-laundering violation in November, Changpeng…

Starting in 2029, a new federal safety regulation will require all new cars and trucks in the United States to be sold with automatic emergency braking — sensors that hit the brakes to avoid a collision if the driver does not. The new rule, which was made final on Monday,…

Prosecutors in Arizona said on Monday that they would not retry a rancher who was charged with murdering an unarmed migrant on his property last year after a mistrial was declared last week. Jurors were not able to reach a unanimous verdict in the case against George Kelly, 75, who…

In one of the deadliest days for law enforcement in recent years, three members of a U.S. Marshals fugitive task force were shot and killed in Charlotte, N.C., on Monday as they tried to serve a warrant and were met by gunfire, the police said. Five other law enforcement officers…