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Advocates for criminal justice reform who have elected a wave of progressive prosecutors nationwide captured the crown jewel Friday as former San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon defeated Los Angeles DA Jackie Lacey.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has granted a death row inmate a temporary reprieve from execution.

Chicago rapper King Von was among three people shot and killed in a shooting early Friday outside a nightclub in Atlanta that also left three people wounded, state investigators said.

A Missouri election judge who came to work despite testing positive for the coronavirus died in her sleep after a 15hour shift at the polls, the director of her countys election office said Friday.

Iraqi security forces killed at least one antigovernment protester using live gunfire and wounded at least 40 others in the southern city of Basra on Friday, security sources and a rights official said.

The plaque on Nzakame Rhema's coffin marks the "sunset" of her short life Oct. 24, 2020, the day gunmen burst into her school in Cameroon's South West region and killed seven children.

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President Donald Trump is looking at a political map in which he might have to persuade the Supreme Court to set aside votes in two or more states to prevent Joe Biden from becoming president.

The shooting happened around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday at a home in Stuart, Sheriff William Snyder of Martin County told news outlets. The man told detectives he didn't realize his wife was not in the room. He frantically called 911 and told dispatchers he had...

WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH POLL WATCHERS?

The 1978 disco anthem was used both at rallies and as the soundtrack to a campaign video ahead of Tuesday's US presidential election.

A second day of sometimes dueling demonstrations over the integrity of the U.S. presidential election started early on Thursday in Philadelphia and other cities as ballot counting dragged on in a handful of states that will decide the outcome.

Trump said his team had launched a "tremendous amount of litigation" to counter what he called the "corruption" of Democrats, even as several officials in battleground states where the vote remains undecided have defended the integrity of the vote.

Carl Lentz, the celebrity magnet of a pastor who brought the global megachurch Hillsong from Australia to the United States, has been fired, acknowledging on Instagram that he cheated on his wife.

The U.S. Justice Department and federal prosecutors said Thursday that they have reached an agreement with Meriden, Connecticut, to resolve allegations the city illegally rejected an application for a proposed mosque.

Paris will be placed under more restrictions to curb the worsening COVID19 pandemic, including a requirement for more shops to close in the evening, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo told BFM TV on Thursday.