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BERLIN — The suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride attack that left one person dead and 29 injured was shot and killed by police during a confrontation on Sunday in a suburb of the city, authorities said. Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots, was killed following a search that lasted nearly 24 hours after the attack in downtown Berlin. Prosecutors said he had previously sought to join the militant Islamic State group. Ballout was suspected of driving a van into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride festival Saturday night before apparently stabbing others with a machete in what authorities…

WASHINGTON — The four American troops killed during renewed fighting between the U.S. and Iran in recent weeks are no longer listed as part of the Iran war death toll in the Pentagon’s official casualty count but have been placed in a new, separate category. It is raising questions about properly counting the impact to U.S. service members as the Trump administration has escalated strikes on Iran in a bid to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, while providing little indication of how it intends to wind down a conflict that is unpopular with many Americans. The Defense Casualty Analysis System,…

New York City prosecutors accused a knife-wielding man of hate crimes after he allegedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” before stabbing an Asian man and a Jewish man in a violent spree last week. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said Raul Morales, 51, was arraigned late Friday on attempted murder and several hate crime assault charges in the attacks that took place the day before in the Upper West Side. Prosecutors said Mr. Morales wounded his first victim around 1:30 p.m. Thursday when he stabbed an Asian man in his 50s and yelled “Allahu Akbar” before plunging the knife into the man’s…

Tens of millions of people are under extreme heat warnings across central and southern parts of the United States on Sunday as high temperatures and severe humidity grip large swaths of the country for a second straight day. Heat indices exceeding 105 degrees Fahrenheit were forecast from Memphis to Montana to Las Vegas. Parts of the southwest could see temperatures as high as 120 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the National Weather Service. The sweltering conditions are the result of yet another heat dome – a phenomenon in which atmospheric conditions trap heat, accentuating and prolonging already high temperatures. For much…

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing to eliminate a foundational safety principle that has for 50 years minimized the radiation people in the United States are exposed to and that has been adopted around the world. Currently, facilities such as nuclear plants, hospitals or academic institutions that use radioactive materials must ensure radiation exposures are kept “as low as reasonably achievable” – the ALARA principle. The NRC proposal would abandon that philosophy while keeping a separate standard on maximum radiation exposure. The two standards have worked together in radiation safety. Dose limits set the maximum amount of radiation the public…

A 19-year-old woman has been charged with illegally voting as a noncitizen in the 2024 election. Bernadette Acaso, a legal immigrant from the Philippines, told investigators she felt pressured by her uncle, who told her she had to vote and for a particular candidate. Authorities didn’t say who that candidate was, according to court documents detailing the case. She cast her ballot by mail. Ms. Acaso suggested she was susceptible to pressure because the uncle was the one who filed the petition for her family to immigrate to the U.S. She came in 2018 and holds a green card, signifying…

MADISON, Wis. — In Wisconsin’s progressive capital city of Madison, where liberal residents have long embraced their history of political activism and protest, a police shooting this week has disrupted some of the largest and most popular summertime events and once again put the spotlight on persistent and deep racial divisions. Corey Ruiz, who is identified as Black or Latino in Wisconsin court records, was shot and killed by a Madison police officer on Wednesday after a brief scuffle at the intersection of a city street just yards away from a popular 52-year-old food co-op in the heart of the…

WASHINGTON — Dangerously hot weather will expand across much of the central United States this weekend and into next week, pushing temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 degrees Celsius) from Dallas to North Dakota with roughly 70 million people facing heat advisories. A heat dome, where atmospheric conditions trap heat, will create sustained high temperatures and accumulating discomfort. Overnight low temperatures aren’t expected to come down enough for people to have much chance to recover, allowing heat stress to build as the bad weather lingers, forecasters said. The high humidity will make it feel even worse. A huge stretch of…

SEOUL, South Korea — The Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia, an ornate 13th-century Buddhist temple in Thailand and tidal flats in western South Korea were among several sites added to the World Heritage List on Saturday at a U.N. committee meeting in South Korea. The UNESCO meetings in Busan, which continue through next Wednesday, are reviewing dozens of other nominations, including the D-Day landing beaches in France, Mount Olympus in Greece and the ancient Japanese capitals of Asuka-Fujiwara. The Okefenokee Swamp boasts impressive biodiversity The Okefenokee Swamp is regarded as one of the world’s largest freshwater ecosystems, encompassing a vast network…

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s admission that he cannot legally arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has done little to calm Jewish leaders, who say the mayor’s broader rhetoric continues to deepen tensions at a moment of heightened concern over antisemitism. Israel has remained one of the defining points of friction between Mr. Mamdani and the Jewish community since his mayoral campaign, when he pledged he would seek Mr. Netanyahu’s arrest if the Israeli leader ever set foot in the city. Mr. Mamdani finally conceded this week that City Hall has no such authority, a reversal that came in…