State Prime Minister Armin Laschet announced that the entire Guetersloh district, home to more than 360,000 people, would be locked up for the next seven days. Laschet said the new blockade would reflect measures imposed nationwide earlier in the Covid-19 pandemic. Group gatherings were banned, and schools, kindergartens, museums, restaurants, …

Each summer, huge columns of dust traverse the atmosphere over the tropical Atlantic Ocean, traveling 5,000 miles from the Sahara desert in North Africa to the southern United States. While summer dust feathers are a common occurrence, the one sailing the Caribbean right now is creating quite a stir. That’s …

John Michael Legg, 19, and Frederic Allen Rogers, 22, were part of a club called Seven Deadly Sins, and they killed the victims earlier this month near Huntsville following a dispute within that club, investigators said in Alabama. They are awaiting extradition hearings, police said. Whether they have lawyers was …

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (D) said Monday that the city’s police department will return to the abandoned East Precinct “peacefully and in the near future” after a grim weekend at the busy Capitol Hill protest during which three people were shot. Durkan said protests would still be allowed in the …

Before planning the attack on his base, he dipped into O9A propaganda and literature published by the Islamic State, or ISIS, prosecutors said. As part of their investigation, federal agents later found an iCloud account that Private Melzer used to store an ISIS document describing the killings of US military …