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Four former correctional officers in Hawaii have been handed prison sentences ranging from one to 12 years for beating an inmate in 2015, breaking his jaw, nose and eye socket, and trying...

ATLANTA — Longstanding tensions over a planned Atlanta police training center boiled over on Wednesday when a protester was killed and a Georgia state trooper was wounded during a confrontation in the...

A man who fatally shot his wife, their five children and her mother before killing himself earlier this month in Utah had been investigated in 2020 on child abuse allegations, but he...

“Without him, there would likely not have been the ads, which did indeed change the whole story for VW outside of Germany and did indeed result in a lot of needed healing,...

For years, American politicians have warned that China could challenge the U.S. as the world’s top superpower. As China’s growth regularly outpaced Western rivals, it seemed on track to become the world’s...

The instinct to rebuild in the same place should be questioned, not just in Montecito but in all of California’s vulnerable areas, said Tom Corringham, a research economist with the Scripps Institution...

Two lawyers who represented Mr. Peña in the 2008 case could not immediately be reached for comment.Months before the November election, Mr. Garcia asked a New Mexico court to bar Mr. Peña...

Some drew comparisons to the case of Gabrielle Petito, who disappeared on a cross-country van trip in late 2021. Her body was eventually found in a national park in Wyoming, and the...

SACRAMENTO — Sometimes you have to see nature’s power firsthand before you believe it.Heading into New Year’s weekend, meteorologists warned that an inbound atmospheric river would pack a serious punch. Yet as...

After RU-486’s approval, Dr. Elisabeth Aubény, an obstetrician-gynecologist, said her hospital gave it to appreciative patients, but also encountered protesters who chained themselves to operating tables.Beginning in the 1980s, Dr. Baulieu received...