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Feb. 18 (UPI) -- The striking graduate students at Temple University have reached an agreement with the school that could end a more than two-week long strike.

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday warned Chinese officials during a meeting Saturday that there will be "consequences" if Beijing aids Russia in its war in Ukraine.

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says the city is taking steps to remove homeless people who have been sleeping in O'Hare International Airport, calling their presence a risk to security.

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Power levels in Terminal 1 of John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City were returned to normal on Saturday after the facility was temporarily closed due to major outage this week.

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- More than 20,000 students at Michigan State University have signed a petition to delay the return of classes after three students died in a mass shooting this week.

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- United Nations officials on Saturday said they were "shocked" after 18 people, believed to be migrants from Afghanistan, were found dead in an abandoned truck in Bulgaria.

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Former President Jimmy Carter, who led the country from 1977 to 1981, has chosen to receive hospice care at home "to spend his remaining time," the Carter Center announced Saturday.

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- At least 17 people were hospitalized and hundreds more evacuated after a fire spread through a high-rise apartment building in Silver Spring, Md., authorities said Saturday.

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Nine children, including a five-year-old boy, were shot and injured outside a Georgia gas station, authorities said Saturday.

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has been detected in Santa Barbara County, Calif., as worries about the disease's spread to mammals continued to mount.

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- An estimated five million people began descending on Rio de Janeiro Saturday as Brazil's Carnival celebration returned at full blast following a two-year hiatus.

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- A group of Chinese delegates visited Taiwan on Saturday, marking the first official group from China to visit the country since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- The Biden administration has moved to reestablish the legal underpinnings used to enforce federal mercury emissions standards for power plants first set during the Obama administration.

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- The body of professional soccer player Christian Atsu was discovered under the rubble of the earthquake-damaged building where lived in Turkey, his agent confirmed Saturday.

The fierce Tropical Cyclone Freddy on Saturday was approaching Madagascar, where experts say life-threatening impacts are likely in the coming days.

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- SpaceX on Friday completed its second launch of the day, sending a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit from Florida as part of its Inmarsat program.