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EVAN VUCCI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- The diplomatic breach between Canada and India over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader near Vancouver has widened as both countries expelled one of the others diplomats and India suspended visa processing for Canadian citizens. Ties between the two countries, which are close security and trade partners and U.S. allies, strained after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday that investigators were actively probing "credible a...

Philip Gould/Getty Images(LOUISIANA) -- New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has signed an emergency declaration over an intrusion of saltwater into the Mississippi River that officials say could impact the water supply in the region. "We will continue to work with our partners locally and state-wide as we closely monitor this situation," Cantrell wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. Officials said weather forecasts indicate that river volume will fall to historic lows in the next sever...

MATTHEW HATCHER/AFP via Getty Images(DETROIT) -- President Joe Biden said he will join the picket line, as a labor strike against the three largest motor vehicle manufacturers in the United States expanded on Friday. United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain announced 38 new strike locations targeting Stellantis and General Motors., saying all parts distribution locations for Stellantis and GM at cities across 20 states will now join the strike. Ford is coming closer to a deal with the UAW, unlik...

ABC News(LONDON) -- The wife of the president of Iran defended a law passed this week designed to impose harsher sentences on women who do not wear hijabs in public, comparing the rules to "dress codes everywhere" in an interview with ABCs "This Week." You can see Martha Raddatzs full interview with Jamileh Alamolhoda on ABCs "This Week" on Sunday at 9 a.m. EDT. Raddatz asked Alamolhoda about the subject, but the Iranian presidents wife did not directly answer when ...

Raymond Boyd/Getty Images(LAS VEGAS) -- Police searched a Las Vegas-area home in July in the long-dormant murder case of Tupac Shakur, the celebrated hip-hop artist who was shot and killed at the age of 25 in September 1996. That home belonged to Duane Keith Davis, aka Keffe D, a man who claims to be one of two living witnesses to the Vegas shooting that killed the rapper, according to a search warrant released by police. Magazine articles, computers, hard drives and photos, along with a copy of...

By Marc Guitard/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden on Friday will announce the establishment of the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention to help reduce the nations epidemic of gun violence. "He believes that now is the moment to accelerate our work to reduce gun violence, which is why he is establishing this office," Stefanie Feldman, who will serve as Director of the Office of Gun Violence Prevention, told reporters. The office that will be overseen by...

ABCAmid pressure from striking writers and picketers gathering outside the Dancing with the Stars rehearsal facilities, SAG-AFTRA is backing the show and its cast members. "Our members appearing on Dancing with the Stars are working under the Network Code agreement" and "are not in violation of SAG-AFTRA strike rules ... we support them in fulfilling their contractual obligations," SAG-AFTRA said in a statement to ABC Audio. "The program is a SAG-AFTRA non-dramatic ...

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Commerce Department finalized the national security "guardrails" in which recipients who receive CHIPS and Science Act funding must abide by. The CHIPS and Science Act was passed last year to address the manufacturing of semiconductors in the United States and the Commerce Department is responsible for dolling out billions of dollars to those who apply for the federal funding. The rule filed on Friday explicitly states that companies who re...

Peter Dazeley/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Fertility treatments can be a very emotional process filled with complex decisions, including what to do with extra embryos. Its a dilemma Ryann and Richard Hendrickson had to face. The married couples effort to donate their extra embryos was first reported by The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Hendricksons started their fertility journey after Ryann Hendrickson was diagnosed with breast cancer three years ago. They were already parents to a daughter and hoped...

KUALA SELANGOR: Drug addiction cases in this country have increased by 27% in the first six months of this year to 118,820 addicts compared with 93,534 addicts reported in the same period last year.