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New French PM defends promotion of minister accused of rape

France's new prime minister firmly defended Wednesday the contested promotion of a colleague accused of rape as his interior ...

FBI investigating reported assault on Black Indiana man

The FBI said Tuesday it’s investigating the reported assault of a Black man by a group of white men at a southern Indiana ...

Exhausted cities face another challenge: a surge in violence

Still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic and street protests over the police killing of George Floyd, exhausted cities ...

Video shows facility staff restraining Black teen who died

At least seven men forcibly restrained a teenager who had a heart attack and died two days later. The staffers at a youth ...

Atlanta Mayor: No need for troops, despite governor's order

The mayor of Atlanta said Tuesday that she doesn’t agree with the Georgia governor’s order to mobilize the National Guard in ...

NY state penalizes Deutsche Bank $150M for Epstein dealings

Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $150 million to settle claims that it broke compliance rules in its dealings with the late ...

At libel trial, Depp blasts Amber Heard's 'sick' abuse claim

Johnny Depp said Tuesday that ex-wife Amber Heard had made “sick” claims of abuse and falsely branded him a monster, as the ...

Women's rights groups protest French ministers' appointments

One of French President Emmanuel Macron’s new government ministers has been accused of rape. Another is a lawyer who ...

Georgia Gov. authorizes Guard troops after 8-year-old killed

Georgia's governor on Monday declared a state of emergency and authorized the activation of up to 1,000 National Guard troops ...

Depp arrives at court for libel hearing

Johnny Depp arrived at Britain's High Court on Tuesday to attend a hearing of his claim against The Sun’s publisher, News ...

$1.2 million bail for driver that hit 2 Seattle protesters

A judge on Monday set a $1.2 million bail for the man accused of driving a Jaguar on to a closed Seattle freeway and hitting ...

Rickey Smiley's daughter injured after being shot in Texas

Atlanta-based radio host and comedian Rickey Smiley said Monday that his daughter was hospitalized after being shot in ...

'Senseless crime': The victims of July Fourth shootings

A 6-year-old computer whiz. A young mother working for a better home for her kids. An 8-year-old who loved to make dance ...

Chicago's holiday weekend ends with 17 dead, 70 wounded

One of Chicago's bloodiest holiday weekends in memory ended with 17 people fatally shot, including a 7-year-old girl and a ...

Kenyans protest cop who allegedly killed man over sanitizer

Residents of a small town in western Kenya set fire to a police station and damaged several vehicles after a police officer ...

Protester killed on Seattle freeway was dedicated to cause

A person killed Saturday when a man who drove his car onto a closed Seattle freeway and into a crowd protesting police ...

7-year-old among 13 killed in weekend shootings in Chicago

At least 13 people, including a 7-year-old girl at a family party and a teenage boy, were killed in Chicago over the Fourth ...

Man charged in Alabama mall shooting that left boy, 8, dead

A man has been arrested on a murder charge in connection with a recent shooting at an Alabama shopping mall that left an ...

'Killed a baby:' 8-year-old girl killed in Atlanta shooting

An 8-year-old girl was shot and killed on the Fourth of July after at least two people in a crowd of armed people opened fire ...

Sheriff: 2 dead, 8 hurt in South Carolina nightclub shooting

A shooting at a nightclub early Sunday left two people dead and eight wounded in South Carolina, a sheriff's official said.