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Author Edmund White appears at his home in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file)

Edmund White, a groundbreaking gay author, dies at 85

Edmund White, the groundbreaking man of letters who documented and imagined the gay revolution through journalism, essays, memoirs and novels, has died. He was 85.

A vehicle stops at Terminal 1 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Feb. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Jury convicts New York-Paris flight stowaway who slipped past gate agents

Mohsen Mahdawi speaks during an interview at the ACLU of Vermont on Thursday, May 8, 2025, in Montpelier, Vt. (AP Photo/Alex Driehaus)

Freed Palestinian student accuses Columbia University of inciting violence

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a news conference in Dallas, June 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

In the Texas GOP Senate primary, Paxton and Cornyn trade early attacks

This photo provided by Janice Wei shows Candi Hololio Johnson, left, and Kim Kozuma, both on horseback, as they watch lava shooting out of Kilauea volcano's summit caldera inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (Janice Wei via AP)

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano puts on a fiery show with a towering fountain of lava

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Salvage crew bound for the site of a cargo ship fire off the coast of Alaska

A tug carrying salvage specialists and special equipment is expected to arrive at the location of the Morning Midas around Monday, officials say. The cargo ship was carrying about 3,000 vehicles to Mexico when it caught fire in waters off Alaska’s Aleutian island chain Tuesday.

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One of the world’s most active volcanos erupts again Wednesday night in Hawaii

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Stabbing attack at Oregon homeless shelter sends 11 people to hospital, man in custody

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New supercomputer to power AI and scientific research unveiled at Berkeley National Lab

Endurance swimmer completes circumnavigation of Martha’s Vineyard ahead of ‘Jaws’ 50th

Civil rights leaders mark the 5th anniversary of George Floyd’s murder in Houston

Firefighters battle a large fire at a vacant hotel near Houston

NJ Transit trains resume services after first strike in over 40 years

Police and firefighters respond to an explosion rocking the California city of Palm Springs

Flash flooding swamps town in western Maryland

Flooding In Maryland send cars floating with rising waters

Air traffic controllers for Newark airport briefly lose radar access again

New Jersey mayor arrested at ICE detention center where he was protesting

Sheriff’s deputies chase and bring in custody suspect for stolen yacht in Florida’s Atlantic Coast

3 killed and 9 missing after small boat capsizes off San Diego, Coast Guard says

Burro racing wins over runners in backcountry ode to mining history

Winnipeg Jets center Dominic Toninato, left, and right wing Nino Niederreiter, right, get physical with St. Louis Blues defenseman Justin Faulk, center, during the third period in Game 6 of an NHL hockey first-round playoff series Friday, May 2, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Le)

Man charged in deputy’s death was the father of teen shot by Cincinnati police, authorities say

2 women shot on campus of small technical college near Los Angeles

7 people are dead after a pickup and tour van collide near Yellowstone, police say

Newborn Masai giraffe calf makes first appearance at San Diego Zoo

The Memphis church pivotal in Martin Luther King Jr.'s final days suffers a devastating fire

Man charged with arson after authorities say he sparked New Jersey Pine Barrens fire

Newly released footage shows woman sneaking on to New York-to-Paris flight

Fear and panic at Florida State as deadly shooting sends students fleeing

Demonstration at Columbia against Trump administration attacks on funding, speech

Large fire destroys Joliet, IL area factory

Cellphone video shows search after helicopter crashes into Hudson River

S&P 500 sinks 3.5% as Wall Street swings from euphoria back to worries about US-China trade war

Authorities say a helicopter has crashed in the Hudson River off Manhattan

Residents of a Tennessee town evacuated, leaving behind flooded homes

Destructive storms leave damage over Jefferson County, Kentucky

Severe weather causes damage in Missouri

New York Mayor Adams does not address dropped charges