NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The National Urban League on Saturday honored and recognized the accomplishments of four Black women who have made significant marks in the community. Read More

BARINAS, Venezuela (AP) -- The chant is concise, but it could not be more meaningful for millions of Venezuelans in 2024: "Freedom!" Read More

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Seven years ago, New Orleans band Tank and the Bangas squeezed into the corner of a classroom and recorded themselves performing their song "Quick," for National Public Radio's Tiny Desk contest, the nonprofit's annual search for the "next great undiscovered artist." Read More

HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) -- Crews were searching Lake Michigan for two suburban Chicago men Saturday, more than a day after they went missing as a large group of people were boating along northwestern Indiana's coastline, authorities said. Read More

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Jon Landau, an Oscar-winning producer who worked closely with director James Cameron on three of the biggest blockbusters of all time, "Titanic" and two "Avatar" films, has died. He was 63. Read More

NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y. (AP) -- An off-duty New York Police Department officer who was among four killed when a drunk driver plowed into a nail salon on Long Island last month was laid to rest Saturday. Read More

FLORENCE, Ky. (AP) -- Four people were killed and three others were wounded in an early Saturday shooting during a party at a home in northern Kentucky, police said. Read More

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) -- Minnesota Vikings rookie cornerback Khyree Jackson and two of his former high school teammates were killed in an early morning car crash Saturday in Maryland, police and the team said. Read More

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) -- The coup-hit nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso on Saturday ruled out returning to the West Africa regional bloc whose division could further jeopardize regional efforts to revert coups and curb the violence spreading across the region. Read More

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, famous for his heavy-handed crackdown on street gangs, threatened to use similar tactics against price gougers. Read More

CHICAGO (AP) -- Part of the experience of a NASCAR race is hearing the engine roar, the rumble of each car's approach and the zip when it whizzes past at more than 150 mph. Read More

LONDON (AP) -- The U.K. has its first change in government in 14 years after the Labour Party won a landslide victory in a general election Friday that saw the Conservative Party suffer its biggest defeat ever. Read More

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Japan's foreign minister on Saturday announced a joint project with Cambodia to share knowledge and technology on land mine removal with countries around the world, including Ukraine. Read More

MANAWA, Wis. (AP) -- People living downriver of a Wisconsin dam that was breached by floodwaters have been allowed back into their homes following an evacuation order and many of them now face the mess of cleaning up flooded basements, police said Saturday. Read More

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- President Joe Biden, fighting to save his endangered reelection effort, used a highly anticipated TV interview to repeatedly reject taking an independent medical evaluation that would show voters he is up for serving another term in office while blaming his disastrous debate performance on a "bad episode" and saying there were "no indications of any serious condition." Read More

Nearly three years after cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed on the New Mexico set of the film "Rust," Alec Baldwin is going on trial over her death. Here are the essential things to know. Read More

UTICA, N.Y. (AP) -- A 13-year-old boy shot to death by police in upstate New York after he pointed what turned out to be a BB gun at officers is being laid to rest Saturday. Read More

With its unprecedented tear through the ultrawarm waters of the southeast Caribbean, Beryl turned meteorologists' worst fears of a souped-up hurricane season into grim reality. Now it's Texas turn. Read More

TOKYO (AP) -- U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel expressed regret on Saturday for the handling of two cases of sexual assaults allegedly committed by American military personnel on Okinawa, which have again stoked resentment of the heavy U.S. troop presence on the strategic island in Japan's far southwest. Read More

LONDON (AP) -- British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Saturday that he is scrapping a controversial Conservative policy to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda as he vowed to deliver on voters' mandate for change, though he warned it will not happen quickly. Read More

PARIS (AP) -- Voters in France's overseas territories and living abroad started casting ballots Saturday in parliamentary runoff elections that could hand an unprecedented victory to the nationalist far right. Read More

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) -- Russian strikes overnight left over 100,000 households without power in northern Ukraine and cut off the water supply to a regional capital, Ukrainian authorities reported Saturday, while civilian casualties rose sharply in the country's embattled east. Read More