Eight others were taken to the hospital with injuries after the early morning shooting in Brooklyn.

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President Trump offered security guarantees to deter future Russian aggression. But the offer was vague, prompting Kyiv to seek clarity.

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Scientists offer some surprising answers.

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I saw an image of peace-giving in Chicago O’Hare. The airport atmosphere was anything but peaceful and there were thunderstorms overhead. There was a lot of grumbling. And I was, too.

Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio joked he's "emotionally 32" while he reflected on turning 50. He spoke out about his desire for more honesty and authenticity in relationships.

Carnival confirms reports two drowning deaths at Celebration Key less than a month after the $600 million private island destination opened to customers.

The American Culture Quiz is a weekly test of our unique national traits, trends, history and people. This time, test your knowledge of vintage vehicles, carnival crowds and more.

A Minnesota fast food employee was gifted a car after walking four miles each day to his jobs at Dairy Queen and Chipotle all while working 80 hours a week, and not taking a day off.

Union criticises move less than 12 hours after start of action that has left more than 100,000 travellers stranded

The Canadian government has forced flight attendants at Air Canada back to work, less than 12 hours after they began striking, and ordered binding arbitration over a dispute that has left more than 100,000 travellers stranded around the world during the peak summer travel season.

Since March, Canada’s largest airline and the union representing its flight attendants have been locked in an increasingly bitter dispute over what the union has described as “poverty wages” and unpaid labour. Flight attendants are currently not paid for any work before or after the plane takes off.

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Why she refused to quit.

They helped create the modern world but are dangerously overused. How can we harness them sustainably?

In 1954, just a few years after the widespread introduction of antibiotics, doctors were already aware of the problem of resistance. Natural selection meant that using these new medicines gave an advantage to the microbes that could survive the assault – and a treatment that worked today could become ineffective tomorrow. A British doctor put the challenge in military terms: “We may run clean out of effective ammunition. Then how the bacteria and moulds will lord it.”

More than 70 years later, that concern looks prescient. The UN has called antibiotic resistance “one of the most urgent global health threats”. Researchers estimate that resistance already kills more than a million people a year, with that number forecast to grow. And new antibiotics are not being discovered fast enough; many that are essential today were discovered more than 60 years ago.

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Brothers Bruce and Scott hadn’t spoken for 15 years when finally one made the call that would reunite them. How do people recover from decades-long rifts?

“What happened?” Scott, 82, asked Bruce, 78, when his younger brother picked up the phone and called him after a 15-year estrangement. “I grew up,” Bruce said. “I’ve been stupid and I really miss you.” The brothers had missed a decade and a half of each other’s birthdays, milestones and memories made, but here they were, talking again as though no time had passed.

A quarter of the adult population describe themselves as estranged from a relative; 10% from a parent and 8% from a sibling, according to research by Karl Pillemer, professor of human development at Cornell University and author of Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them. But when decades pass and rifts remain unhealed, what drives family members such as Scott and Bruce – or, rather more famously, the Gallagher brothers – to repair their ruptured relationships?

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Ryan Wardwell was rappelling down Seven Teacups falls when ‘extreme hydraulics’ trapped him behind a cascade

A California man who recently became trapped behind a waterfall for two days while climbing was dramatically rescued by police utilizing a helicopter.

Ryan Wardwell, 46, of Long Beach, went to waterfalls known as the Seven Teacups on 10 August with plans to rappel down, the sheriff’s office of Tulare country said in a social media post. But the “extreme hydraulics” of the waterfalls pushed Wardwell off his rappelling lines and trapped him behind a cascade of the Kern river, according to the sheriff’s office.

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© Photograph: Tulare county, California, sheriff's office

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He thought she was too idealistic; she thought he lacked empathy. Would they find any common ground on migration, Gaza or gender politics?

Michael, 38, London

Occupation Data engineer

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Crisis firefighting has given way to a dependence on government and central banks

Manchester United has already been written off against Arsenal on Sunday morning.

Canada’s response to the extreme weather threat is being upended as the traditional epicentre of the blazes shifts as the climate warms

Road closures, evacuations, travel chaos and stern warnings from officials have all become fixtures of Canada’s wildfire season.

But as the country goes through its second-worst burn on record, the blazes come with a twist: few are coming from the western provinces, the traditional centre of destruction.

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Home secretary said group carried out ‘escalating campaign’ of criminal damage before it was proscribed

The self-described “youth organizer” for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who urged a hate-filled “attack”on Jewish students at a Brooklyn public high school was a popular teen who “grew up in a mansion,” a classmate told The Post.

Since becoming parents, Rich and Laura haven’t prioritised intimacy … but they hope marriage counselling will reignite their erotic connection

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Sex is still so important to me and I’m happier after – I’m just struggling to get in the mood

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© Illustration: Ryan Gillett/The Guardian

If trust falls in the forest, but there is nobody there to witness it, does anybody notice? Read More

In Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, set in 2054, crime has been eliminated thanks to psychics who predict wrongdoing before it happens. “Pre-criminals” are arrested for “Pre-crimes” they haven’t committed. But the visions are flawed and open to manipulation. The dark side of “pre-crime” is totalitarianism disguised as public safety. The film is a timeless warning about the tension between liberty and security. Read More

Multiple individuals were transported to local hospitals. However, their conditions were not immediately released.

New York City police are searching for suspects in a deadly shooting at a Brooklyn lounge that left at least three dead and eight wounded early Sunday.