Laughter is a surprisingly common reaction to being scared out of your mind.

Whether you want to make crispy fries or reheat a pizza, these air fryer tips and tricks will help you make the most of this useful appliance.

Edmundo Gonzalez, the candidate for the opposition party in Venezuela’s presidential election in July and Nicolas Maduro’s political opponent, was forced to flee Venezuela. Gonzalez arrived with his wife in Spain on Sunday, officially exiled from the country. His departure from Venezuela was part of an arrangement with Maduro’s government after an arrest warrant was issued for Gonzalez last week. The diplomat and recent presidential candidate was charged with multiple crimes, including...

The United States and Iraq have reached an understanding on plans for the withdrawal of U.S.-led coalition forces from Iraq, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. The plan, which has been broadly agreed but requires a final go-ahead from both capitals and an announcement date, would see hundreds of troops leave by September 2025, with the remainder departing by the end of 2026, the sources said.

The mother of a student at the Georgia high school where a teen allegedly killed four people says information indicating staff were warned he was having a crisis shows the shooting could have been prevented. “The school failed them, that they could have prevented these deaths and they didn’t,” Rabecca Sayarath said Sunday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “I truly, truly feel that way.”

Election Integrity deniers often complain that Wisconsin has one of the more stringent voter ID laws in the country. That’s a good thing; the swing state Badger State has proved to be a cesspool of election integrity concerns in recent years. But there’s a voter ID-related loophole cheaters can drive a semi truckload of fraud through. In Wisconsin, voters may claim “Indefinitely Confined” status, which allows them to receive an absentee ballot without presenting proof that they are who they...

On Monday, China warned Germany not to endanger its sovereignty following a report that Berlin would dispatch warships to a contested waterway off the country later this month. The German magazine Der Spiegel reported on Saturday that Germany, a NATO member, would arrange for the frigate Baden-Württemberg and the replenishment ship Frankfurt am Main to transit the Taiwan Strait during their mid-September voyages from South Korea to Indonesia. China respected the navigation rights enjoyed by all...