Washington — The House voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garlandin contempt of Congress, escalating a fight over audio recordings related to President Biden’s handling of classified documents. Garland has defied subpoenas from the Republican-led House Judiciary and Oversight committees demanding that the Justice Department hand over the audiotapes of the president’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur as …

Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday that investigators are looking into the killings of four women and two children in central Mexico, where security video shows National Guard officers were present. The murders occurred Sunday in León, an industrial city in the state of Guanajuato where drug cartels have been fighting bloody turf battles for years. The quasi-military …

The body of a female skier last heard from on May 18 was recovered in Mount Rainier National Park three weeks later, on Saturday, the National Park Service said in a news release Tuesday. The service said rangers started searching May 19 in response to a report of an overdue skier who’d set out to ski tour above the park’s …