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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed gunrights legislation on Friday that would allow parishioners at more churches to be armed, marking the second year in a row that he's blocked the idea.

A southwest Missouri man has admitted that he threatened U.S. Reps. Emanuel Cleaver II of Missouri and Steve Cohen of Tennessee because he was upset by comments they made.

Uganda's president Yowreri Museveni on Friday introduced sweeping new anticoronavirus measures including a ban on all vehicular movement except for essential workers to help curb a second wave of the COVID19 pandemic gripping the nation.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's office made the announcement.

At least five people were killed Thursday when gunfire erupted inside a maximum security prison in eastern Honduras, according to an official in the federal prosecutor's office who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.

A proposal to bring down four hydroelectric dams near the CaliforniaOregon border cleared a major regulatory hurdle Thursday, setting the stage for the largest dam demolition project in U.S. history to save imperiled migratory salmon.

A Southern California man charged with killing a 6yearold boy in a road rage incident told police he pulled out and fired a gun at a car on the freeway after he got angry with a driver who made a rude gesture.

A Greek man has been detained as a suspect in the murder of his British wife outside Athens last month after publicly claiming she'd been killed during a brutal invasion of the couple's home, police said late Thursday.

Election processes in Georgia's most populous county were badly managed, sloppy and chaotic, but there was no evidence of fraud, according to an independent monitor who spent many hours over several months observing county election workers.

Former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge suffered a stroke Wednesday at his home in suburban Washington, D.C., a longtime aide to the former Pennsylvania governor said.

A state ethics panel on Wednesday censured a municipal judge who cursed and threatened a traffic court defendant, telling her that he would bust her ass if she sued his adult son.

One person was killed and five others were wounded Wednesday in a shooting in Baltimore, the city's police commissioner said.

A Rome court has strongly backed Vatican prosecutors in their pursuit of an Italian businessman accused of bilking the Holy See of millions of euros in a London real estate deal, saying he used badfaith negotiations, lastminute contractual changes and a w...

The choice of Geneva, following long US-Russian negotiations, recalls the Cold War summit between US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the Swiss city in 1985.

Peruvian socialist candidate Pedro Castillo claimed victory in the presidential election on Tuesday after clinging on to a narrow lead as the lengthy vote count ended, although his rightwing rival pledged to fight the result and has yet to concede.

A Portuguese teenager has found a message in a bottle that traveled at least 2,400 miles from a Vermont teenager.