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A judge ruled Tuesday against Boston's embattled police commissioner in his bid to block the city from firing him over decadesold domestic violence accusations.

An indictment against Steve Bannon was dismissed Tuesday over the objection of prosecutors who said it should stand despite exPresident Donald Trump's decision to pardon his former chief strategist.

Costa Rican authorities on Tuesday carried out 40 early morning raids across the Central American country against a major crime organization specializing in trafficking Colombian cocaine and money laundering, a senior official said.

Republicans in Nevada are calling for an investigation into a vote last month to censure the GOP secretary of state after allegations emerged that the balloting was swayed by activists with ties to the farright Proud Boys extremist group.

Malian soldiers rounded up the president and prime minister Monday, hours after a government reshuffle left out two members of the junta that seized power in a coup nine months earlier in the West African nation, witnesses reported.

World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for a "massive push to vaccinate at least 10 percent of the population

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer apologized Sunday after apparently violating statemandated social distancing guidelines at an East Lansing bar and grill.

California's attorney general on Friday charged 15 people with conspiring to defraud mostly elderly victims of Filipino descent out of a combined $5 million.

After refusing to quit for more than a month, the mayor of a California wine country town who has been accused of sexual assault by nine women has resigned from the job.

A fuller picture began to emerge Friday of the apparently affable 72yearold former butcher who hacked up one woman in the basement of his home, and is suspected of killing many others.

The Associated Press is being criticized for firing a young journalist over her social media activity, with some suggesting the news agency bowed to a political pressure campaign over her proPalestinian views from when she was in college.

Environment ministers from seven leading industrialized nations agreed Friday to accelerate efforts to slow global warming, including a commitment to end government support for new coalfired power plants by the end of this year.

A federal jury has found that a Chicago police lieutenant used excessive force when he tackled and beat a man during the celebration outside Wrigley Field after the Cubs won the 2016 World Series.

The latest appeal filed by Mumia AbuJamal and a related suit brought by the widow of the Philadelphia police officer he's convicted of killing will now go before Pennsylvanias Supreme Court.

President Joe Biden spent Thursday morning in a starstudded meeting with this years Kennedy Center honorees.

Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas agreed to a ceasefire, effective on Friday, after waging their most intense conflict in years. Here is a timeline of the some of the most important events in many years of confrontation.