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A truck driver accused of causing a fiery pileup that killed four people and injured six others on a Colorado highway has been convicted of vehicular homicide and other charges.

A crowd of 100 people wreaked havoc in downtown Portland, Oregon, this week smashing storefront windows, lighting dumpsters on fire and causing at least $500,000 in damage but police officers didn't stop them.

China on Saturday launched a rocket carrying three astronauts, including one woman, to the core module of a future space station where they will live and work for six months, the longestever duration in orbit for Chinese astronauts.

Scott Parel shot a bogeyfree 7under 65 on Friday to take the firstround lead in the PGA Tour Champions' SAS Championship.

A judge on Friday denied a lastditch effort to dismiss a criminal case against actor Jussie Smollett, who is accused of lying to police when he reported that he was the victim of a racist, antigay attack in downtown Chicago in January 2019.

Russian authorities on Friday added two publishers to their list of foreign agents, in what critics say is an ongoing effort to sideline reporting critical of the government.

An Italian judge suspended on Thursday the trial of four Egyptian security officials over the disappearance and murder of an Italian student who was killed in Egypt, because of concerns the men might not know about they had been charged.

A Vermont man is facing up to life in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to federal charges that he commissioned a Venezuelan woman to make videos of the torture of a boy and the torture and killing of a man, prosecutors say.

A California mother is accused of hosting alcoholfilled parties for her teenage son and his friends at her Silicon Valley home and other places and encouraging them to drink heavily and engage in sex acts with intoxicated girls, some of them nonconsensual...

Australia has managed to keep its coronavirus numbers relatively low, with some 133,400 cases and 1,478 deaths

Two U.S. Postal Service workers were fatally shot Tuesday at a postal facility in Memphis and a third employee identified as the shooter died from a selfinflicted gunshot, authorities said. It was the third highprofile shooting in or near that west Tennes...

A standoff between the judge investigating the disastrous Beirut port blast and top politicians he seeks to question roiled Lebanon's cabinet on Tuesday after the inquiry was suspended on Tuesday for the second time in less than three weeks.

A replica of a mysterious preHispanic sculpture of an Indigenous woman was chosen Tuesday to replace a statue of Christopher Columbus on Mexico Citys most prominent boulevard.

A metro Phoenix sheriff's deputy who suffered grave injuries at the hands of a man he had just arrested died Monday, authorities said.

More than 30 Cuban migrants were found hiding in a gofast boat during a traffic stop Monday morning in the Florida Keys, officials said.

A customs dispute at the U.S.Canada border is threatening America's supply of a key fish used for popular products such as fish sticks and fast food sandwiches.