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Four officers were shot and wounded, two critically, after a man barricaded himself in a house in a small West Texas town, authorities said.

President Joe Bidens pick to oversee U.S. lands in the Western states stonewalled a 1989 investigation into the sabotage of an Idaho timber sale, a former federal law enforcement officer alleged in a letter released Thursday.

Cleveland State University said Thursday it will continue to require that students living on campus be vaccinated against the coronavirus despite a new law prohibiting public schools and colleges in Ohio from mandating the vaccine.

A movie producer was arrested Thursday in California on a New York indictment accusing him of using a movie production company to operate an international prostitution business.

A Minnesota man who authorities say is a selfproclaimed member of the antigovernment boogaloo movement and had discussed a willingness to kill police has pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a machine gun, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.

Pyotr Mamonov, a rock musician, poet and actor who was a prominent figure in Russia's cultural scene for decades, has died. He was 70.

A New York City museum dedicated to telling Chinese American history marked its reopening to the public on Wednesday, with an exhibit on Asian Americans and racism that it curated partially through submissions gathered during the pandemic and a surge of a...

A federal law that for more than 50 years has banned licensed firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults between age 18 and 21 is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

U.S. authorities launched an investigation and fined Louisiana tourists honeymooning in Hawaii after a video on social media showed a woman touching an endangered Hawaiian monk seal.

Prosecutors in May dismissed a defendants testimony that he was framed by two masked men for the kidnapping and killing of an Iowa college student, calling it a figment of his imagination.

The pact could include countries such as Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.

The high-level online meeting came on the same day Israel started administering third doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to heart transplant patients and others with compromised immune systems.

San Francisco saw an increase in shootings in the first half of 2021 compared to the same period in 2020, and a slight uptick in aggravated assaults like those seen in viral videos that have drawn national attention, the city's police chief said Monday.

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A Moroccan court in Casablanca on Friday handed a fiveyear jail sentence to Moroccan dissident journalist Soulimane Raisouni on sexual assault charges, which he denies, in a case that outraged human rights advocates in the country.