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Evacuations from Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport picked up pace on Wednesday after a frenzied and deadly start to the week.

A person is dead and three others are hurt in four separate shootings that took place across Boston. John Moroney has the latest report.

The shooting at the corner of Seaver Street and Humboldt Avenue in Roxbury was fatal.

A night of celebration in Boston turned violent after four people were shot in separate incidents in the city overnight, police said. One victim has died. Boston police say shortly after 3 a.m. in the city’s Roxbury neighborhood, an officer who was in the area of Seaver Street and Humboldt Avenue saw a man being shot. The victim was...

There were several shootings overnight, police said. One of the four was fatal.

Authorities say a driver in a pickup truck plowed into bicyclists competing in a community road race in Arizona, critically injuring several riders

Soldiers and police in Myanmar used lethal force to suppress the latest protests against last month’s coup as the military celebrated the annual Armed Forces Day with a parade in the country’s capital Saturday.

“Hate and violence often hide in plain sight,” President Joe Biden said Friday. “It’s often met with silence. That’s been true throughout our history. But that has to change because our silence is complicity. We cannot be complicit.”

Testifying before a U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing on anti-Asian violence on Thursday, actor Daniel Dae Kim called on Congress to take action. “What happens right now and over the course of the coming months will send a message for generations to come as to whether we matter,” he said.

President Joe Biden on Thursday denounced the “vicious hate crimes” against Asian Americans across the country. “[They’ve been] attacked, harassed, blamed and scapegoated,” Biden said. “It’s wrong, it’s un-American, and it must stop.”

Asian American lawmakers, along with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House Democrats, denounced on Friday a rise in hate incidents targeting members of the Asian community across the country and called for stronger action — both by Congress and the Biden administration.

While the pandemic’s long-lasting impact has affected public health and the economy, the Asian-American community has also experienced the fallout of COVID-19 – being unfairly blamed for the pandemic and becoming the target of discrimination and violence.

Killings rose dramatically across the U.S. last year, and a study suggests that the coronavirus pandemic and racial injustice unrest were factors

Twitter permanently suspended President Donald Trump’s account, citing “a risk of further incitement of violence.”

The violence at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday can be described as unprecedented but as Sue O’Connell explains, it’s not the first time it has happened.

Former Congressman Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts left Capitol Hill just days ago and says he is shocked by Wednesday’s violence by Trump supporters.

Eight people were hurt in three separate shootings in Boston over a span of 24 hours, according to authorities. The latest shooting happened after midnight Monday on Jette Court in Brighton. Three men were taken to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries. Several hours earlier, two people were shot in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood, Boston Police said. Investigators found multiple shell…

Eight people were hurt in three separate shootings in Boston over the past 24 hours.

A bullet from a drive-by shooting hit the home of former Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson in Roxbury Thursday night. No one was hurt in the incident, but while he wasn’t home, his nephew was sitting on the front steps at the time. “This could happen to you and a bullet doesn’t have a name,” Jackson said. A car...

Bullets from a drive-by shooting hit the home of former Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson.