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He spent two years planning. He wrote a rambling, racist 16,500-word screed stuffed with memes, poems and video-game references. Then Brenton Tarrant allegedly stormed two New Zealand mosques and slaughtered worshippers ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A Florida woman has been sentenced to life in prison for killing her 9-year-old cousin sitting on her as a form of punishment. The Pensacola News Journal reports that 66-year-old Veronica Green Posey w...

The so-called "MAGA bomber" who is accused of sending pipe bombs to former President Barack Obama, other prominent Democrats and CNN in the weeks before the 2018 midterm elections, is expected to plead guilty to charges ...

More right-wing extremists than militant Islamist sympathizers were arrested in the U.S. by FBI terrorism investigators since Trump became president, statistics show.

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said on Thursday she wants to stop executions at the federal level, drawing further attention to the issue of capital punishment the same week that California Gov. Gavin Ne...

The grainy footage looked like a violent video game -- a first-person view of bodies piled on the floor as a long-barreled gun sprays bullets across a room. Only this was real life. Brenton Tarrant strapped a GoPro camer...

Although three people were initially taken into custody, New Zealand Commissioner of Police Mike Bush said that at this stage there is no evidence that suggests there was more than one person involved in shootings, RNZ N...

A German man tried smuggling threeMoroccan tortoisesthroughSchnefeld Airport inBerlin by telling custom officers they were "chocolates."        

The violence started when protesters threw smoke bombs at officers

President Trump signed his first veto Friday, striking down a bipartisan resolution which would have blocked his national emergency declaration at the southern border. CBSN political contributors Lynda Tran and Michael G...

The New Zealand Mosque Shootings have shed new light on the rising problem of white extremism. Jeff Pegues joins CBSN to discuss what might be causing the uptick and what the U.S. can be doing to address the dangers of r...

The imprisonment of Michael R. White, 46, is another irritant in the increasingly tense relationship between Iran and the United States.

He wouldn't just fake your kids' water polo skills and pump up their SAT scores -- college admissions scammer William "Rick" Singer could also fake your kid's race. As part of his larger scheme to get low-performing rich...

The U.N. and government officials say Cyclone Idai has affected 1.5 million people

BOSTON -- A powerful blaze at a casket company in Boston has forced the evacuation of residents and impacted subway service. Fire department officials say the fire at the New England Casket Company in the East Boston nei...

The Super Rugby match between the Otago Highlanders and Canterbury Crusaders scheduled for later on Saturday has been canceled after a mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch on Friday killed 49 people.

A human rights attorney says a German freelance journalist jailed in Venezuela since November as a suspected spy has been freed. Carlos Correa of Public Space told The Associated Press …

U.S. President Donald Trump urged General Motors Co to reopen Ohio plant in a tweet on Saturday, ten days after the plant made its last Chevrolet Cruze.

The artificial segmentation of the population is happening everywhere, across all social media platforms. Into how many different AI generated segments are we being corralled? To what extent is our narrowing worldview be...

Police in North Macedonia say they have arrested a man suspected of smuggling five migrants from Greece, headed north toward Serbia. Police said Saturday that one Afghan citizen and four …

With another MBTA fare hike looming this summer, talk on Beacon Hill is again turning to additional ways to help pay for the state's aging transportation system

"We are all too familiar with the devastating effect a mass shooting has"