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Prosecutors called for the release of a Missouri man who has spent more than 40 years in prison for a triple murder that the prosecutors concluded he didn't commit, a letter released Monday showed.

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday expanded a drought emergency declaration to a large swath of the nation's most populated state amid acute water supply shortages" in northern and central parts of California.

The U.S. Navy's top officer liked what he saw Monday during a tour of shipbuilder Bath Iron Works, praising the patriotism he saw in the workforce and describing the shipyard founded in 1884 as a national treasure.

The United States welcomed the Taliban's announcement of a threeday ceasefire over this week's Eid holiday and urged it to extend the ceasefire as U.S. troops withdraw from Afghanistan, State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Monday.

The fresh violence, a day after more than 200 people were wounded at the mosque, prompted international calls for an end to the violence.

The U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet said on Saturday that the guidedmissile cruiser USS Monterey (CG 61) seized an illicit shipment of weapons from a stateless dhow in international water of the North Arabian Sea on May 67.

Proindependence parties won a majority in Scotland's parliament on Saturday, paving the way to a highstakes political, legal and constitutional battle with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson over the future of the United Kingdom.

It however also warned that airborne virus can be transmitted even if the infectious source is farther than six feet.

The Trump Justice Department secretly seized the phone records of three Washington Post reporters who covered the federal investigation into ties between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, the newspaper said Friday.

The West Virginia fire chief who starred in an Oscarnominated documentary about battling drug abuse in ground zero of the nations opioid epidemic took the stand in a landmark trial Friday against three large drug distributors.

The United States has expressed its readiness to lift many of its sanctions on Iran at the Vienna nuclear talks but Tehran is demanding more, top Iranian negotiator Abbas Araqchi told state media on Friday.

Rich nations have faced accusations of hoarding shots while poor countries struggle to get inoculation programs off the ground.

Morrison stood by his decision to impose a biosecurity order barring flights to and from India.

A decision to change cars to get closer to a station exit may have saved Erik Bravo, a 34yearold financial adviser who survived the collapse of an elevated line in Mexico Citys subway system that killed 25 people and injured around 80.

All red flag cases filed by Indianapolis police will now come before a judge after an Indiana prosecutor was criticized for declining to use the law to pursue court hearings that could have prevented a man from accessing the guns used to kill eight people...

Britain withdrew its Royal Navy vessels from the waters off Jersey on Thursday but said it would remain on standby to support the Channel island after a dispute with France over postBrexit fishing rights escalated rapidly.