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A federal jury on Thursday acquitted a former Arkansas lawmaker of conspiring to bribe an exjudge who admitted to lowering a jurys award in a negligence lawsuit in exchange for campaign contributions.

Larry Heinzerling, a 41year Associated Press news executive and bureau chief who played a key role in winning freedom for hostage Terry Anderson from his Hezbollah abductors in Lebanon, has died after a short illness. He was 75.

Oakland filmmaker Peter Nicks had already made two wellregarded documentaries capturing the flawed institutions of his city and their role in shaping local lives: 2012s The Waiting Room, about a public hospital, and 2017s The Force, about the Oakland Pol...

Clashes between herders and fishers in northern Cameroon have killed at least 12 people this week in the area's worst ethnic violence in recent memory, local officials said on Thursday.

The Swiss embassy shared a Twitter post on Tuesday, raising doubt on the existence of the alleged biologist.

A federal judge in San Francisco on Wednesday ordered a new mental health evaluation of a Mexican man acquitted of murder in the 2015 fatal shooting of a woman on a city pier, a killing that became a national flashpoint over immigration.

Taliban now control 65% of Afghanistan and have taken or threaten to take 11 provincial capitals

A South Carolina man accused of tattooing a juvenile in a fastfood restaurant has been arrested and is facing charges, police said.

After all the turmoil of the last week, Krystsina Tsimanouskaya finally feels safe.

Zambias main opposition leader has warned the military deployed on the streets ahead of crucial elections Thursday against aiding a particular party and raised concern that the country could fall into chaos if the polls are mismanaged.

A judge in Alabama has dismissed a defamation claim against Roy Moore's unsuccessful Senate campaign that was filed by a woman who accused Moore of molesting her decades ago when she was 14.

The driver of a pickup truck who Utah police say caused a vehicle crash last weekend that killed a newlywed bride who was still in her purple wedding dress has been arrested, a TV station reported.

Reaction to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's resignation came swiftly Tuesday in many instances as a sense of relief after a damaging investigation by the state Attorney General that corroborated allegations that he sexually harassed at least 11 women and as...

Facebook said the campaign used its platforms primarily to target audiences in India, Latin America and, to a smaller extent, the United States.

It’s not clear if infection with the delta variant is significantly more dangerous to children than previous iterations of the coronavirus, or if more kids are getting sick simply because delta is so much more transmissible.

Kyaw Moe Tun made headlines after the army's February coup, brazenly disregarding its insistence that he no longer represents the country at the New York-based body.