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When Joe Bejjany was shot with a silencer as he got ready to take his two daughters to preschool, it shocked not only his mountain village but a country already on edge.

White House coronavirus task force members backed requiring negative pre-flight tests after a meeting on Monday, but the Trump administration has decided not to take any action for the time being, the people said.

More than 32 years later, the 9-year-old girl with blond hair and blue eyes is still missing.

New Jersey's top law enforcement official on Monday unveiled new guidelines governing the use of force for the state's nearly 40,000 police officers, saying the changes would make the state a national leader in policing reform and help restore public trus...

Walt Disney Co. veteran Alan Bergman has been named chairman of Disney Studios, the company said Monday. Bergman will be succeeding Alan Horn, who will remain chief creative officer. Horn and Bergman have been operating as co-chairs since May 2019.

A Turkish court on Monday sentenced a former proKurdish lawmaker who was stripped of her parliamentary status earlier this year to more than 22 years in jail on three separate terrorism charges, according to court documents seen by Reuters.

With Sydney's beachside suburbs in lockdown due to a growing coronavirus outbreak, residents of Australia's largest city flocked in record numbers to get tested for COVID19, hoping to hold back tougher restrictions over Christmas.

Hong Kong’s highest court on Monday ruled the city's government had the right to invoke colonialera emergency powers last year to ban the wearing of masks at all public processions and meetings during the height of 2019's protests.

Congressional leaders have hashed out a massive, year-end catchall bill that combines $900 billion in COVID-19 aid with a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill and reams of other unfinished legislation on taxes, energy, education and health care. The huge,...

South Korea recorded its highest daily death toll from the coronavirus, health authorities said on Monday, as a surge in infections strains the health system and prompted police raids on venues suspected of violating social distancing rules.

A 20yearold soldier from Tennessee who went missing from New York state's Fort Drum was found dead, officials said Sunday, adding that an investigation has been launched.

Presidentelect Joe Bidens incoming press secretary said Sunday that Biden would not discuss the investigation of his son with any prospective candidates for attorney general.

A senior lawmaker is concerned the Pentagon is pushing to split the National Security Agency, America's premier signals intelligence organization, from U.S. Cyber Command, the top cyberwarfare unit, in the last weeks of the Trump administration as the gov...

The Army general in charge of getting COVID-19 vaccines across the United States apologized on Saturday for miscommunication with states over the number of doses to be delivered in the early stages of distribution.

An attorney representing a Black man who was injured after being run over by a sheriff's patrol truck while running across a Kansas field said Friday that law enforcement authorities engaged in a cover-up that began as soon as emergency medical personnel...

Ohio State University has tallied hundreds more instances of alleged decadesold sexual misconduct by nowdeceased team doctor Richard Strauss, bringing the total to more than 2,000, according to its latest campus crime data disclosed under the federal Cler...