Gustavo Petro, a former rebel and longtime senator, became the first leftist leader elected to head Colombia, Latin America's third largest nation. Francia Márquez will become the nation's first Black vice president.

A 15-year-old boy was killed and three adults, including a police officer, were shot when gunfire erupted Sunday night at what authorities said was an unauthorized music festival in Washington, D.C.

The police said a gunman opened fire during a potluck dinner at Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church in Vestavia Hills, Ala., killing three people before being subdued by a parishioner.

The Food and Drug Administration authorized both the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccines for use in children as young as 6 months. Doses would be rolled out after a final recommendation from the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The status is the first formal step in a process to join the European Union that usually lasts more than a decade. The commission also approved candidacy for Moldova, but denied an application from Georgia.

Former Vice President Mike Pence spent almost five hours on Jan. 6 in a loading dock beneath the Capitol. At one point, an angry mob chanting 'hang Mike Pence' came within 40 feet of him.

J. Michael Luttig, a former federal appeals court judge, said Donald Trump and his allies posed a threat not because of what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, but because 'they would attempt to overturn that 2024 election in the same way.'

The former White House lawyer Eric Herschmann said John Eastman, the lawyer who pushed a plan to reject Electoral College results, had continued to intervene with Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s victory after the riot.

Former Judge J. Michael Luttig said America would have plunged into 'a revolution within a constitutional crisis' had Vice President Mike Pence followed Donald J. Trump's orders not to certify the Electoral College votes.

President Emmanuel Macron of France, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany and Prime Minister Mario Draghi of Italy visited the ruined Ukrainian city in the Kyiv suburbs.