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Chileans will head to the polls on Sunday to approve or reject a new constitution that would replace the Andean country's current text that dates back decades to the era of military dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Chileans are set for a historic decision on Sunday: stick with a market-friendly constitution dating back to military dictator Augusto Pinochet or approve a progressive new text that promises to shake up the Andean country's political and social fabric.

Brett Cross had several questions for the Uvalde school board when it met this week, but went home with few answers.

Federal and local officials are scrambling to locate close to a dozen unaccompanied migrant children, after Houston police raised concerns about a trend of migrant children reported missing in the Texas city, according to U.S.

The brush fire started burning Wednesday in Los Angeles County near the Interstate-5 freeway.

Pilots at Lufthansa went on strike on Friday, forcing the German airline to cancel hundreds of flights, stranding holidaymakers.

Pakistan's armed forces have rescued a further 2,000 people stranded by rising floodwaters, they said on Friday, in a disaster blamed on climate change that has swamped about a third of the south Asian nation and is still growing.

A 16-year-old boy was charged with voluntary manslaughter and possession of a weapon on school property.

United Nations experts who crossed into Russian-held territory in Ukraine to assess the safety of Europe's biggest nuclear energy plant are seeking on Friday to assess physical damage to the facility, where both sides warn of possible disaster.

Federal Reserve officials have acknowledged that the battle against inflation will be paid for with lost jobs, and the U.S.

Certain volatility-linked investment strategies could ramp up selling of equities if turbulence in the stock market, which has been stoked by the U.S.

Argentina's Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was unharmed on Thursday when a man with a loaded gun tried to shoot her but the gun did not go off, officials said.

U.S. employers likely continued to hire workers at a strong clip in August while steadily raising wages, signs of persistent labor market strength that could encourage the Federal Reserve to deliver a third 75 basis point interest rate hike this month.

Her mother's ex-boyfriend allegedly kidnapped the girl from her house Tuesday night.

A "potentially dangerous" heat wave is expected to expand in parts of western United States throughout the weekend.

A Texas family which owns 70,000 acres in the Permian basin is exploring options including a sale, putting up for grabs one of the largest family-owned tracts in the heart of U.S.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack said it had asked former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich to provide information related to its probe.

Two types of packaged dried mushrooms sold in 15 states were recalled after the Maryland department of health found salmonella in some packs.

Advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday voted to recommend the use of COVID-19 booster shots redesigned to target the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants of the coronavirus for people aged 12 years and older.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will launch a month-long speaking tour to tout President Joe Biden's recent legislative achievements, starting with a Sept.

Former New York City police officer Thomas Webster, who assaulted police in the Jan.

Angola's main opposition party on Thursday filed a case with the constitutional court to seek the annulment of last week's election in which the ruling MPLA was declared the winner, Portuguese news agency Lusa said.

Lori Vallow's lawyers filed a motion asking a judge to ban cameras from the courtroom after getting too close to their client.

The U.S. military experienced its highest recorded level of sexual assault among women last year, in findings the Pentagon on Thursday described as tragic, disappointing and devastating.

Gay rights activists from across Latin America have called for the region's governments to take firm steps to prevent the spread of monkeypox, saying a lack of will to provide vaccines and diagnose cases is hurting the region's gay and bisexual men.

A federal judge on Thursday narrowed the scope of questions that Republican Senator Lindsey Graham must answer from a special grand jury investigating Donald Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia, but she again rejected Graham's bid to avoid testifying altogether.

California lawmakers on Thursday voted to extend the life of the state's only nuclear power plant by five years, and approved several other measures to bolster the state's already aggressive climate change policies and shore up its fragile power sector.

The U.S. government is drastically underestimating the social cost of carbon dioxide emissions, which is 3.6 times higher than the estimate currently used to inform many of Washington's key climate policies, a study suggested on Thursday.

A U.S. House of Representatives committee said Thursday it had reached an agreement with Donald Trump and accounting firm Mazars USA on handing over some of the former president's financial records.