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The United States and Russia have made progress toward resolving a standoff over staffing at their respective embassies, resulting in Washington ending a policy that allowed family members of embassy staff in Moscow to leave Russia, a State Department spo...

A Montana prison inmate serving a 100year sentence for killing his wife in 1983 has confessed to strangling, sexually assaulting and dismembering a 19yearold Helena woman 15 years earlier, authorities said Friday.

Germany took three of six possible medals in World Cup skeleton racing on Friday, including a sweep of the golds with Tina Hermann winning the women's race and Axel Jungk getting the men's win.

Experts have found a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket earlier this year is mentally incompetent to stand trial for now, attorneys said during a court hearing Friday.

Any move by China to invade Taiwan would be a "potentially disastrous decision," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday, adding that he hoped leaders in Beijing would think very carefully about "not precipitating a crisis."

A 14yearold Georgia girl was killed when her younger brother was trying to sell a homemade gun, and he fired a shot at people who took the weapon without paying, a sheriff said.

A former Arizona nurse was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday for sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman at a long-term care facility where she later gave birth.

We've been here before, with the fate of abortion rights throughout the United States in doubt and awaiting a decision by the Supreme Court.

Two soldiers were killed and several more wounded when Islamist militants attacked a border security post in northern Benin on Wednesday night, the army said.

The Pittsburgh synagogue massacre defendants statements at the scene and at a hospital should be allowed at trial, prosecutors told a federal judge in a new filing, in part because concerns about public safety were a valid reason to keep questioning him e...

Four Phoenix police officers were denied qualified immunity in a lawsuit over the death of a Black man during a 2017 arrest attempt in which one officer pressed his knee into the mans neck and shoulder area, according to a newly unsealed court ruling that...

A Libyan court on Thursday overturned a decision by the countrys top electoral body that disqualified the son of the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi from running in upcoming presidential elections.

Arizona State University students angered that Kyle Rittenhouse had been a fellow classmate and could enroll again plan to protest Wednesday.

Formula One statistics for Sunday's inaugural Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in Jeddah, the penultimate race of the 22round world championship.

Of the more than 60 people on that and another KLM flight from South Africa who tested positive for the virus, at least 14 had omicron, according to Dutch officials.

England chalked up their biggest ever competitive victory with a 200 humiliation of Latvia in a Women's World Cup qualifier as Ellen White broke the Lionesses's scoring record on a busy night for the scorekeeper at the Keepmoat Stadium on Tuesday.