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Several members of the group arrested after an armed standoff along a Massachusetts highway earlier this month have filed a federal lawsuit alleging that state courts have no jurisdiction over the case.

A South Carolina prosecutor decided Monday not to charge two jail employees who stunned a mentally ill Black man 10 times and kneeled on his back until he stopped breathing, calling the guards' videotaped actions damning, but not against the law.

An announcer who was fired by an Iowa racetrack after a racist rant was back behind the microphone in southern Minnesota last weekend, but he did not receive a standing ovation as promised because he was apparently uncomfortable with that plan, according...

Black community leaders are calling on officials in a city south of Atlanta to preserve a cemetery for African Americans that they say has long been neglected and is under threat from a city skate park.

Bosnian Serb political representatives have pledged to block decisionmaking in the countrys institutions in protest over a recent move by the top international envoy in Bosnia to outlaw genocide denial.

At least 57 people drowned on Monday after a boat capsized off the Libyan coast near Khums, the latest tragedy in the central Mediterranean, the U.N.'s International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.

The victim's father, Shaukat Mukaddam, has served as Pakistan's ambassador to South Korea and Kazakhstan.

Domingo Germn of the New York Yankees is pitching a nohitter through six innings against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park.

A snow leopard at the San Diego Zoo has tested positive for the coronavirus.

The study of 503 healthcare workers found that longer dosing intervals resulted in higher neutralising antibody levels, after the second dose, against the Delta variant and all other Variants of Concern tested.

Africa became the region hardest hit by terrorism in the first half of 2021 as the Islamic State and alQaida extremist groups and their affiliates spread their influence, boasting gains in supporters and territory and inflicting the greatest casualties, U...

Florida's COVID19 hospitalizations and cases again jumped significantly this week as the vaccination rate in rural counties where some of the worst outbreaks are occurring remains well below the state and national averages.

U.S. Air Force Maj. Grant Thompson thanked a British photographer the best way he knew how by ripping the flight patch from his shoulder and handing it to the man whose quick action last week ensured he landed safely after an engine in his F15E Strike Ea...

The chair of former President Donald Trump's inaugural committee who faces charges he secretly worked as an agent for the the United Arab Emirates to influence Trumps foreign policy was ordered released from jail Friday on $250 million bail.

A veteran Chicago police officer was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in prison for his part in an international gambling ring that also involved a smalltown mayor.

A drug manufacturer announced Thursday that it has reached a $35 million agreement that would settle a Tennessee lawsuit by local governments and a child born dependent to opioids over the company's role in the opioid epidemic, though steps remain to fina...