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Six people are facing charges ranging from arson and manslaughter to filing a false instrument and criminal impersonation in connection to a fire at an assisted living facility in a New York City suburb earlier this year that killed a firefighter and a fa...

The German military late on Tuesday concluded its withdrawal from Afghanistan after almost two decades, finishing Germany's deadliest military mission since World War 2.

A mural in Kentucky that depicts Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and other Black people recently killed by law enforcement has been defaced, officials said.

President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree Monday to dispatch Brazilian soldiers to the Amazon in a bid to curb surging deforestation, just two months after withdrawing troops from the region and days after his Environment Minister resigned.

U.S. President Joe Biden, in a meeting on Monday with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, said his commitment to Israel is "ironclad" and he looks forward to meeting with new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett soon.

A passenger who tried to break into an airplane's cockpit last week and jumped from the moving plane in Los Angeles now faces federal charges, authorities said Monday.

Authorities were searching Monday for a 62yearold suburban Minneapolis man accused of injecting his ailing mother with a lethal dose of the powerful painkiller fentanyl.

South Carolina prison officials said Monday they have reached the initial approval phase of a $6 million settlement to resolve dozens of lawsuits the Department of Corrections is facing following a deadly prison riot that killed seven inmates.

Mexicos central bank on Monday swatted down the cryptocurrency enthusiasm expressed over the weekend by one of the country's leading bankers.

The United States on Monday strongly defended weekend strikes against Iranaligned militias but the fighters vowed revenge and both Iraq and Syria condemned the unilateral U.S. air strikes as violations of their sovereignty.

The Delta coronavirus variant, first identified in India, appears to be dominating new infections in South Africa, local scientists told a news conference on Saturday.

Russia is facing a surge in new cases that authorities blame on the highly infectious Delta variant

A man who intervened in a shooting that killed a police officer near Denver was shot and killed by a responding officer while holding the suspect's AR15, police said Friday.

Officials offered new promises Thursday that Haiti would soon receive its first vaccine as the country of more than 11 million people reels from a spike in coronavirus cases and COVID19 deaths that have saturated hospitals.

Two transgender women are suing the state of Georgia, saying they've been denied access to genderaffirming health care under its Medicaid program.

Recordhigh heat is forecast in the normally mildweathered Pacific Northwest this weekend, raising concerns about wildfires and the health of people in a region where many people don't have air conditioning.