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Fine personal qualities do not always translate into judicial virtues.

Police cordon off government complex ahead of Sunday's pro-democracy march Police and demonstrators braced for more mass protests in Hong Kong on Sunday, the latest in weeks of unrest in a political movement that shows f...

Plastic straws are losing popularity but cigarette butts are the real environmental problem

Britain's foreign secretary warned Saturday of "serious consequences" if Iran fails to release a British oil tanker it seized a day earlier in the Strait of Hormuz -- but he ruled out "military options." The takeover of ...

Police in a Massachusetts town are asking crooks to take the weekend off -- because it's too hot. "Due to the extreme heat, we are asking anyone thinking of doing criminal activity to hold off until Monday,'' Braintree c...

Chynna Noelle Deese, 24, and Lucas Robertson Fowler, 23, were on a road trip in Canada when police believe they were murdered.       

Universal Orlando went under temporary lockdown Saturday night after police received a report of a gunman spotted in a parking garage.       

Philip Hammond says the UK did not "take its eye off the ball" amid escalating tensions in the Gulf.

Attorney General William Barr recently declared a law enforcement emergency in Alaska

At least nine people were killed, including six police officers, and 30 others wounded in a two-pronged assault in the northwest of the country, officials said.

An Oxnard couple has beenarrestedin connection with the death of a newborn baby, police said Friday.       

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Sunday he had not yet decided on how to respond to an expected U.S. request to send its navy to join a military coalition to safeguard strategic waters off Iran and Yemen.

Government accused of failing to address crisis after big rise in assaults on staff and inmates Assaults in youth prisons in England and Wales have risen by almost two-thirds over the last five years, a Guardian analysis...

​President Trump ​on Sunday ​continued his attacks on four minority freshman Democrats, telling them they should “apologize” to America. “I don't believe the four Congresswomen are capable of loving our Count...

The South Bend, Indiana, mayor discussed race and the Civil War.

The Don vs. Khan battle entered another round on Saturday. President Trump mocked London's Mayor Sadiq Khan after a Twitter account for the city's police department was hacked. "With the incompetent Mayor of London, you ...

Thousands of bones have been unearthed in two ossuaries discovered in the Vatican City, as part of an ongoing search for clues into the disappearance of a 15-year-old girl more than three decades ago.

'Flying soldier' Franky Zapata expects to cross from France to England in 20 minutes A former jetski champion and French military reservist who became known as the "flying soldier" after he invented a jet-powered hoverbo...

A British warship tried without success to stop the capture of an oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz, a recording released on Sunday showed.

In an audio recording, a British naval officer can be heard saying that the transit of a British-flagged vessel through the Strait of Hormuz must not be impaired under international law, just before it is seized by Irani...

Policing the law to protect the disabled is difficult with the stigma of disability so pervasive in society.

But the withdrawal agreement reached by the UK and EU cannot be renegotiated, Simon Coveney says.