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A former Melrose Place actress who has already served a prison sentence for a fatal 2010 drunken driving crash in New Jersey is headed back behind bars after a judge agreed with prosecutors Thursday that her initial sentence was too lenient.

Only 14% of coronavirus test results in England came back within 24 hours last week, a sharp fall from the week before, according to data on Thursday that adds to pressure on a government fending off criticism that its strategy is collapsing.

Impunity for rape, murder and other abuses is still widespread in Burundi despite a change of government, a U.N. report released on Thursday said.

A man visiting relatives in suburban Chicago from Kentucky has been arrested after a womans remains were found in several bags of luggage.

Republican Gov. Mike Parson's contested proposal to give the Missouri attorney general the power to intervene in St. Louis homicide cases failed Wednesday when the GOPled House finished a special session focused on curbing violent crime without taking act...

The head of Libyas U.N.supported government said Wednesday night that he wants to hand over power to a new administration in October amid talks on ending the countrys conflict.

A Michigan sheriff's deputy was shot Wednesday after responding to a call between feuding neighbors, authorities said.

The general commanding American troops in Bavaria met Wednesday with local officials in the Alpine town of GarmischPartenkirchen to reassure them of the U.S. military's commitment to preventing the spread of COVID19, after an outbreak at a troop hotel sic...

The Supreme Court said Wednesday it will start its new term next month the way it ended the last one, with arguments by telephone because of the coronavirus pandemic and live audio available to the public.

Hurricane Sally brought heavy winds and massive flooding as it landed on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Wednesday morning as a Category 2 hurricane, the latest in what has been a busy season of dangerous storms in the United States.

A former caretaker of a Connecticut cemetery where police found bones strewn about and new graves placed over old ones is facing a new charge of embezzling more than $60,000 from the cemetery.

Cambodia and China on Wednesday rejected U.S. allegations that a Chinese stateowned company was guilty of human rights abuses and corruption in its acquisition of land in Cambodia.

Russia's intelligence chief on Wednesday accused the United States of fomenting massive demonstrations against Belarus' authoritarian president that have entered their sixth week.

The author of the millionselling debut novel The Nest has another story of family drama coming out next year.

From across the Philippines, they gathered to pray by Zoom.

Satellite images show that smoke from wildfires in the western United States has reached as far as Europe, scientists said Wednesday.