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A Georgia man facing murder and assault charges after the fatal shootings of eight people, including six Asian women, at Atlantaarea spas indicated he had sexual addiction issues and may have not been motivated by racial hatred, authorities said on Wednes...

Arizona prosecutors are seeking the stiffest possible prison sentence for a former metro Phoenix politician convicted in an illegal adoption scheme one that could land him behind bars for as many as 18 years.

A Florida teenager was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison for his role in hacking the Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls and scamming people around the globe out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin.

Unidentified armed men killed at least 58 people on Monday in a part of southwestern Niger where Islamist militants have repeatedly attacked civilians and the military, the government said.

The district attorney of Queens announced Tuesday that she is requesting the dismissal of nearly 700 cases involving prostitutionrelated offenses, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he would push for statewide decriminalization of sex work.

Hong Kong authorities have ordered that anyone testing positive for the virus must go to hospital, including babies, while all their close contacts are sent to makeshift quarantine camps.

The force has been under intense scrutiny since the January 6 assault on the Capitol by thousands of former president Donald Trump's supporters.

Antigovernment activist Ammon Bundy was arrested Monday after failing to attend his trial on charges that he trespassed during an Idaho legislative session last fall. Bundy didn't appear in the courtroom because he was protesting outside the building inst...

U.S. Marshals in Tennessee have arrested a Georgia rapper who was wanted for nearly three months after violating his probation by melting off his courtordered ankle monitor and disappearing, according to authorities.

Dallas Seavey was leading the Iditarod on Sunday, positioning himself to tie one other musher for the most wins ever in the worlds most famous sled dog race.

An Army reservist charged with taking part in the attack on the U.S. Capitol was known as a Nazi sympathizer who wore a Hitler mustache, coworkers told federal investigators.

Restrictions such as shorter business hours for restaurants and bars have helped reduce new daily cases in Tokyo, but the number of new infections in the city has been creeping up.

Jordan reported 8,300 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, the highest daily death toll since the pandemic first surfaced in the kingdom a year ago.

The attorney for George Floyd's family said Friday that a $27 million settlement of a federal lawsuit by the city of Minneapolis is the largest pretrial civil rights settlement ever.

China's parliament on Thursday approved a draft decision to change Hong Kong's electoral system, further reducing democratic representation in the city's institutions.

Miller said he believed Trump's speech earlier in the day did have a "cause and effect" impact on those who listened and later stormed the Capitol when asked if he thinks Trump was responsible for the riot.