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The driver of a truck that slammed into a bus carrying farmworkers, killing eight people, was in another crash just three days earlier and taken a cocktail of drugs the day before, court records revealed on Wednesday. Bryan Maclean Howard, 41, was ordered held without bail a little more than …

Mexico is stopping nearly three times as many migrants who have crossed its southern border as it was a year ago, a trend that U.S. officials say has helped blunt the surge in crossings of the U.S. border usually seen at this time of year. Biden administration officials also point …

Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks has won Maryland’s Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday, NBC News projects, defeating self-funding Rep. David Trone after a bitter and expensive campaign.  Alsobrooks will now face a competitive general election race in the deep blue state against Republican Larry Hogan, the popular former two-term …

Defense attorney Todd Blanche grew annoyed and raised his voice as he tried to press Michael Cohen into calling himself a liar and the former fixer to Donald Trump tried to skirt the question — it wasn’t quite the fireworks many had anticipated for the Tuesday cross-examination, but it did …

Eight people are dead and 40 were hospitalized after a bus carrying farm workers crashed and overturned early Tuesday morning in north central Florida, officials said. The crash involved a 2010 International retired school bus transporting farm workers and a 2001 Ford Ranger truck and unfolded on State Road 40, …

A court in Austria said Tuesday it had ruled that the country’s most infamous living criminal, incestuous rapist Josef Fritzl, could be transferred to a regular prison from a prison psychiatric unit but release from incarceration was unlikely. Fritzl, who has now changed his name, raped his daughter whom he …

Lisa Bluder, who coached the Iowa women’s basketball team to the last two NCAA championship games, announced Monday that she is retiring after 24 years leading the Hawkeyes. Her longtime assistant, Jan Jensen, was named her successor. Bluder made the announcement five weeks after Iowa lost to South Carolina in the national …

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill into law Monday that would bar transgender people from using bathrooms that correspond with their gender identities in the state’s public schools.  The legislation, titled the Securing Areas for Females Effectively and Responsibly Act, or the “SAFER Act,” mandates that the state’s schools …

Teodoro Díaz loves the sound of meat sizzling on the grill and the aroma of mesquite wood, smoked with a hint of pepper, that makes his tacos a unique experience. “The fresh meat absorbs the wood and gives it a strong and very special flavor,” explains Díaz, 36, co-owner of …

KATHMANDU, Nepal — One of the greatest climbing guides on Mount Everest has scaled the world’s highest peak for the 29th time, extending his own record for most times to the summit, expedition organizers said Sunday. Kami Rita reached the 29,032-foot peak at 7:25 a.m. local time Sunday along with …