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The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea from South Carolina to reimpose the death penalty on a South Carolina inmate whose death sentence stood for two decades until a federal appeals court threw it out in August.

An employee who returned fire after a gunman killed two people at a Nebraska grain elevator likely prevented more deaths, a Nebraska State Patrol official said Friday.

Vice President Kamala Harris will head next month to Paris for talks with French President Emmanuel Macron, according to the White House.

The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar warned Thursday that the country already faces an internal armed conflict and if power isnt returned to the people in a democratic way we will go in the direction of a failed state.

The dollar gained on Thursday against a basket of currencies, erasing earlier losses, boosted by better jobs and housing data, and as U.S. Treasury yields rose.

An Ohio woman who has spent nearly two decades in prison on charges of killing a baby in her care could be released as soon as Thursday after new evidence in the shaken baby syndrome case led to charges being dropped.

Bavarian premier Markus Soeder said on Thursday Germany should not let its COVIDrelated state of emergency expire as cases rose again.

French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on Thursday that millions of lower and mediumincome motorists would each be given 100 euros ($116) in oneoff financial assistance to help them cope with rising gasoline prices.

Brazil's Justice Ministry has dispatched security forces to an indigenous reservation in the south of the country where two people have been killed in a dispute over renting land to soy farmers.

California's popular InNOut hamburger chain is in trouble with yet another San Francisco Bay Area county over its failure to verify the vaccination cards of people choosing to dinein with their doubledoubles, shakes and fries.

North Korea said on Thursday the United States was overreacting to its recent missile test and questioned the sincerity of Washington's offers of talks, warning of consequences.

COVID19 patients will keep crowding hospital intensive care units (ICUs) in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan well into next year without government orders to limit public mixing, modelling data showed on Wednesday.

San Francisco will give out cash awards of up to $100,000 for information about the ringleaders of highlevel auto burglaries in yet another push to battle crime in a city marked by attentiongrabbing vehicle smash and grabs, home breakins and retail theft...

A Texas nurse was convicted Tuesday of capital murder in the deaths of four patients who died after prosecutors say he injected them with air following heart surgeries.

FBI agents on Tuesday raided homes in Washington and New York City linked to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire with ties to the Kremlin and to Paul Manafort, the onetime chairman of Donald Trump's 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.

Honolulu police officers and officials with Hawaiis public school system discriminated against a disabled Black child by handcuffing, arresting and interrogating the 10yearold girl for a runofthemill dispute between children, the American Civil Liberties...