Overdose deaths involving fentanyl are rising — up 113 percent on average each year from 2013 to 2016. Dealers are adding cheap fentanyl to the illicit drug supply, and some users get it accidentally.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Thursday that the government will ban “military-style semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles,” to avert “the kind of horror and attack that we saw on Friday.”

The move is an apparent return by the government to the practice President Trump has called “catch and release” and promised to end when he was a presidential candidate.

The president again complained about the late Arizona senator during an Ohio speech, even criticizing the McCain family for not showing gratitude to the president over the late senator’s funeral.

Two high-profile plane crashes. The grounding of its bestselling jetliner. How did Boeing get here, and how can it recover from this crisis of confidence?

In a Mississippi death penalty case, the justices were skeptical of the way the state picked and dismissed black jurors and appeared ready not to uphold the conviction.

Civil rights and faith leaders are demanding a meeting with the FBI director. The message: time to prioritize white nationalist violence.

The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged Wednesday and signaled that no more rate hikes may be necessary this year amid signs of economic slowing.

The president told reporters, “Let people see” special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, as Trump again denied any collusion with Russia prior to his election in 2016.

Charities are trying to help with what a Red Cross staffer calls “the worst humanitarian crisis in Mozambique’s history.” Zimbabwe and Malawi were also struck.

Increasing the size of the Supreme Court and scrapping the Electoral College are two of the latest provocative proposals sweeping the 2020 Democratic field.

For years, AdSense contracts gave Google a wide range of control, including how its rivals’ search ads would appear — and their size, color and font, the EU says.

The prime minister visited a school that lost two current students and one former student in the Christchurch mosque shootings last week.

“There’s really no common sense attached when able-bodied people approach disabled people,” says activist Imani Barbarin, who started the hashtag.

Judges in The Hague upheld the Bosnian Serb leader’s conviction in connection with the 1995 Srebrenica massacre that claimed the lives of 8,000 Muslim men and boys.

Afghanistan ranks extremely low on the World Happiness Report, released for World Happiness Day on March 20. But that doesn’t mean it is a place devoid of happiness.

Avalanche forecasters in Colorado say it’s going to be a bad year. They’re predicting the highest danger level for snow slides since they began forecasting in 1973.

Barry Lopez’s new book is a biography and a portrait of some of the world’s most delicate places, but at heart it’s a contemplation of the belief that the way forward is compassionately, and together.

The U.K.’s National Portrait Gallery and the Sackler family — owners of the company that makes OxyContin — say they’re concerned that allegations of profiteering could overshadow the gift.

The political chaos surrounding Brexit could have been avoided had Theresa May simply followed President Trump’s advice, his son wrote in an op-ed.

The U.S. says it may stop sharing intelligence with Germany if it adopts Chinese firm Huawei’s 5G technology. But the threats haven’t swayed Germany, which says it can set its own security standards.

Jamal Trulove spent more than six years in prison before being acquitted in 2015. A jury found police deliberately fabricated evidence and withheld exculpatory material.

The $71 billion deal strengthens Disney’s portfolio and gives it even more leverage to compete against other streaming powerhouses.

Kashmir, disputed between India and Pakistan, is the site of a decades-long insurgency. It is also a winter sports haven. During recent airstrikes and shelling, a ski station remained open.

Some of the least-known but most important figures in the Russia investigation and its aftermath are the women who preside over its headline-grabbing cases.

On a conservative court, Justice Gorsuch has been one of the most conservative voices. But in cases involving Indian treaties and rights, he is most often sympathetic to Indian claims.

Some states have begun using Medicare reimbursement rates to recalibrate how they pay hospitals. If the gamble pays off, more private-sector employers could start doing the same thing.

After five days of deliberation the jury concluded the weed killer was a “substantial factor” in causing non-Hodgkins lymphoma in the plaintiff. It’s the second verdict against the Bayer product.

Pranksters added some whimsical credits in the fine print of an annual White House economic report.

After the New Zealand terrorist attacks, mental health professionals are asking: What does persistent trauma do to a generation of young Muslims growing up in the midst of it all?

The storm inundated parts of southern Africa with massive floods, stranding survivors on rooftops and in trees. Hundreds are reported dead and the toll is expected to rise.