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A New York City man has been criminally charged with sending death threats on social media, in part because he was unhappy with Democrat Joe Biden being declared the winner of the presidential election, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Tuesday.

An April trial date was set Tuesday for Michael Avenatti to face charges that he cheated exclient Stormy Daniels out of proceeds from her book.

A Louisiana investment adviser was sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison for his part in a $3.5 million fraud in which customers invested money with a Texas megachurch minister who had counseled two presidents.

A grand jury has declined to indict an Indianapolis police officer who fatally shot a man in May during a foot chase after police said the 21yearold exchanged gunfire with the officer.

Three people were killed and over 30 wounded on Tuesday in violent clashes in an opposition stronghold in Ivory Coast, three local authority sources said, as tensions ran high in the wake of a contested presidential election.

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Guatemala has ended rescue operations at the site of a huge landslide believed to have killed scores of people in Queja village during tropical storm Eta last week, the country's national disaster agency CONRED said on Tuesday.

Mental health and crisis workers in New York City will respond to emergency mental health calls instead of law enforcement under a pilot program announced on Tuesday, following months of protests around the country over police brutality.

The U.S. presidential election was not tainted by widespread voter fraud or irregularities in how ballots were counted, despite a huge effort by President Donald Trump to prove otherwise.

Brazil's health regulator has suspended a clinical trial for China's Sinovac coronavirus vaccine citing a severe adverse event, delighting President Jair Bolsonaro, who has criticized it for lacking credibility amid growing geopolitical tensions as the g...

On Aug. 21, a tanker called the Otoman docked at the Jose oil terminal on Venezuela's coast in the Caribbean to load 1.82 million barrels of heavy crude, according to the state oil company's internal documents.

Turkey is continuing discussions on how to observe and monitor a ceasefire between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the NagornoKarabakh region, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday, after the warring sides signed a Russiabrokered deal to end fightin...

She and local authorities blame the attack on Taliban militants - who deny involvement – and say the assailants acted on a tip-off from her father who vehemently opposed her working For Khatera, the attack caused not just the loss of her sight but the los...

The United Kingdom reported a total of 194 new deaths from COVID19 on Monday, up from 156 a day earlier, and data showed the weekly total of 2,385 deaths was up by 28.6% compared with the previous sevenday period.

Yerevan (AP) Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said early Tuesday that he has ordered an end to fighting with Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Pashinian said on Facebook that he signed an agreement with the presidents of Azerbaijan an...

The New York Police Department will stop making people who have been arrested remove their religious headwear for mug shots as part of a settlement in a federal lawsuit.