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Flags flew at half-staff and people signed condolence books at municipal buildings across Poland and in diplomatic missions abroad on Tuesday as the nation mourned the stabbing death of the popular liberal mayor of Gdansk. Meanwhile, Interior Minister Joachim Brudzinski said police have arrested three ...

A man who admitted to killing and dismembering his mother during an argument in their Honolulu apartment has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Yu Wei Gong was charged with murder after he called police in 2017 to turn himself in after a suicide ...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo faced a tough balancing act Monday as he pressed Saudi Arabia's crown prince over critic Jamal Khashoggi's murder while shoring up strategic ties with Riyadh. The top U.S. diplomat, on an extensive Middle East tour, held talks with King ...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday arrived in Riyadh, where he is set to ask Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to ensure the killers of journalist Jamal Khashoggi are held accountable. The top U.S. diplomat, on an extensive Middle East tour, embarked ...

Katie Beers' joy quickly turned to deep concern when she learned 13-year-old Jayme Closs had been found alive in rural Wisconsin nearly three months after police say a man shot and killed her parents and then abducted the girl from their home. "She is going ...

The man suspected of kidnapping a Wisconsin teenager and killing her parents with a shotgun nearly three months ago appears to have led an unremarkable existence until that fateful night, blending into the state's vast northwestern forests. Jake Thomas Patterson grew up in Gordon, a ...

After a dramatic hourlong meeting that recalled events from nearly seven decades ago, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state's three-member Cabinet granted posthumous pardons Friday to four black men accused of raping a white woman in a 1949 case now seen as a ...

A 13-year-old northwestern Wisconsin girl who went missing in October after her parents were killed has been found alive in a rural town about an hour from her home, authorities said Thursday. The Barron County Sheriff's Department said on its Facebook page that Jayme Closs ...

U.S. Democrats unveiled landmark gun safety legislation Tuesday five days after regaining the House majority, seeking swift action on a measure to expand background checks on firearm sales. A similar bill was introduced last year by Democrats, but Republican leaders declined to bring it to ...

Human Rights Watch has called on the Australian government to allow entry to a Saudi Arabian woman who is being processed by U.N. refugee authorities in Thailand after fleeing her homeland. Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun was detained after arriving in Bangkok on Sunday, and is now ...

Twenty-eight suspects were due to go on trial Tuesday over the assassination of the Russian ambassador two years ago, including a U.S.-based Muslim preacher blamed by Ankara for a failed coup the same year. Andrei Karlov, 62, was shot dead by an off-duty Turkish policeman ...