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Gunfire erupted in a Mexican city Thursday shortly after military troops encountered one of the sons of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán — the jailed drug kingpin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to jointly patrol an area in northern Syria previously controlled by Kurdish forces with U.S. support.

"Hail more than a meter high, and then we wonder if climate change exists," said Enrique Alfaro Ramírez, the governor of Jalisco state. The Mexican army is helping to dig out the city.

Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters filled the streets of Sudan's major cities on Sunday in defiance of the generals whose violent crackdown earlier in the month left scores of people dead.

The town of Harlech in Wales has ousted Dunedin, New Zealand, for the title of world's steepest street. Residents are elated about the title, which required a lengthy verification process.

Prosecutors say that over a span of five years, Chinese intelligence agents gave Candace Claiborne, then an office management specialist, lavish gifts in exchange for information.

Sheldon Silver was twice found guilty of taking millions in bribes and kickbacks. "I pray I will not die in prison," he wrote to the judge.

Authorities in China have detained an 84-year-old dissident academic Sun Wenguang. They burst into his home and dragged him away just as he was being interviewed by U.S. government broadcaster, VOA.

Arthur Williams has been indicted by a grand jury on criminal charges including first-degree assault after a video surfaced on social media that showed him repeatedly punching a man in the face.

A family road trip in 1963 inspired Roger Tofte to build a fairy tale theme park. At first, he made everything on his own, by hand. Now, more than 100,000 people a year visit his dream come to life.