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Police shot and killed a man Friday outside a Wisconsin Walmart after he allegedly kidnapped a man, carjacked a vehicle and stole another vehicle as officers were closing in on him.

A family that lost five members in a tubing accident on a North Carolina river is suing Duke Energy, saying the utility failed to adequately warn people that its dam poses lifethreatening risks.

Floodwaters and a falling tree also took lives in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New York.

Insurgents who seize power tend to quickly convert themselves into a very specific kind of government: party-based authoritarianism.

A Los Angeles man pleaded guilty Wednesday to participating in what prosecutors called a textbook Ponzi scheme that defrauded cryptocurrency investors worldwide of more than $2 billion.

Florida is reporting its deadliest peak in daily death rates since the start of the pandemic, surpassing previous coronavirus surges in the state, according to federal data published Thursday.

French President Emmanuel Macron unveiled a multibillioneuro plan to turn Marseille into what he called a world city and help slash crime, drug trafficking and poverty, offering clues to campaign themes in his likely reelection bid.

Minnesota prosecutors filed a more serious charge Thursday against the former suburban Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, but it is not the murder charge that activists were seeking.

Authorities have rescued five girls who were among 73 schoolchildren abducted this week in northwest Nigeria and reunited them with their parents, police said Thursday.

Investigators say it's likely police fired the shots that killed an 8yearold gir l outside a high school football game near Philadelphia last week.

Brazil's agriculture ministry said on Wednesday it was investigating a suspected case of mad cow disease in the country, according to a statement.

The increasingly bitter battle between club and country took a new twist on Wednesday when two Brazilian players were obliged to abandon the national side and return to their club in Russia, the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) said.

An Arizona newspaper publisher who repeatedly claimed that his exwife poisoned him has dropped lawsuits against her ahead of a trial that was scheduled to start this week.

There is growing concern among Pakistani officials about security in neighbouring Afghanistan, as the Taliban tries to form a government and stabilise the country following the departure of U.S. and other foreign forces.

Trapped deep in the wreckage of the World Trade Center, Will Jimeno lived through the unthinkable. Twenty years later, hes still living with it.

One of the men who U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz accused of being behind a plot to extort $25 million from his family in exchange for having a federal sex investigation into the congressman go away was indicted Tuesday on charges of wire fraud and attempting to st...