Pooches competed against similarly sized peers for a chance to appear in the finals. Additional heats featured multiple dogs surfing tandem or riding with people.

Without a deal in hand, Republicans say they may try to change Senate rules when they return in September to speed up the pace of confirmations.

Authorities were scouring a mountainous area of western Montana for a military veteran who they say opened fire at a bar in the small town of Anaconda, killing four people.

A Miami jury decided Tesla was partly responsible for a deadly 2019 crash in Florida involving its Autopilot driver assist technology. The automaker said it will appeal.

A federal appeals court ruled Friday to uphold a lower court’s temporary order blocking the Trump administration from conducting indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in Southern California.

The federal Bureau of Prisons said Friday that Maxwell had been transferred to a prison camp in Texas, but did not explain the circumstances.

Her family’s statement is the latest development involving Epstein, who took his own life in a New York jail in 2019 while facing federal sex trafficking charges, and the Republican president.

A South African university launched an anti-poaching campaign Thursday to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive isotopes that it says are harmless for the animals but can be detected by customs agents.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele’s party approved constitutional changes in the country’s National Assembly that allow indefinite presidential reelection and extend presidential terms to six years.

Both countries said they would make the formal announcement at the UN General Assembly in New York in September.