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By CHRISTINE ARMARIO, Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Jack is a small white dog who lives in Mexico City and has been missing since a magnitude 7.1 earthquake startled both humans and their pets when it struck early Tuesday afternoon. "I got lost in the earthquake!!!" a sign with his picture taped to a tree…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has lobbed a string of insults at President Donald Trump, calling him a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" and hinting at a frightening new weapon test. The fact that it's the first time for a North Korean leader to issue such a direct statement has…

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican authorities have raised the death toll from Tuesday's earthquake to 286, with more than half of them in the capital. National Civil Protection chief Luis Felipe Puente says 148 people are confirmed dead in Mexico City. He reports in a tweet sent Friday that there were also 73 deaths in…

By The Associated Press The scope and scale of misery caused by Irma continues to grow, including its human toll. Irma, at one point the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the open Atlantic, has claimed the lives of dozens of people across the Caribbean and southeastern United States. Victims include two women in Havana…

By JASON DEAREN and MARTHA MENDOZA, Associated Press LOWER MATECUMBE KEY, Fla. (AP) — Search-and-rescue teams made their way into the Florida Keys' farthest reaches Tuesday, while authorities rushed to repair the lone highway connecting the islands and deliver aid to Hurricane Irma's victims. Federal officials estimated one-quarter of all homes in the Keys were destroyed.…