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Alexandra Andrews's debut novel follows a Machiavellian aspiring writer who becomes entangled in her work for a best-selling fiction writer.

Jacob Chansley -- the bare-chested Arizona man who wore a furry headdress, horns, and elaborate face paint during the Jan. 6 riot -- told "60 Minutes" in his first comments from jail that his actions weren't an attack ag...

Latest attack in Jalalabad comes days after three female media workers were shot dead A female doctor has been killed in a bomb blast in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad in what appeared to be another targeted attack...

Fewer than a third of prominent pro-democracy activists charged under a new national security law were granted bail Thursday after a hearing at a Hong Kong court.

The Department of Transportation's inspector general found that former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao used her office to benefit her family, primarily her father and sister, and in December referred the case to the...

Seven college students died and four were injured during a tragic incident in Bolivia when a railing collapsed, sending them falling from a fourth-floor balcony. Wild video of Tuesday’s incident showed a mass of studen...

Governments of all countries agreed in February 2020 by adopting the Stockholm Declaration to reduce the maximum speed limit to 30 kilometer per hour (kph) to reduce road-traffic crashes and deaths. This promise was also...

The father of Michael Brown and other activists from Ferguson, Missouri, are demanding financial support from Black Lives Matter after the organization revealed it raised over $90 million last year. Michael Brown Sr., wh...

His comments come a day after he slammed FBI Director Christopher Wray for failing to answer written questions from lawmakers in hearings involving FBI witnesses over the last four years.

Dino Rasera lost everything when afire destroyedhis apartment last month. He even thought he lost hisdog, Marble, until two weeks later when they were finally reunited. Before the fire, Rasera and his dad -with their dog...

It's a cold world.

The sentencing judge called the former Cleveland Browns player a sexual predator who preyed on marginalized women.

A virulent outbreak of equine herpes in eastern Spain has forced European equestrian events to be cancelled across the continent.

The man who plowed his rental car onto a Toronto sidewalk in 2018, killing 10 and badly injuring 16 others, was found guilty Wednesday by a judge who rejected the defense that his autism cleared him of criminal responsib...

Academics write to Robert Jenrick predicting dire consequences for climate crisis if plans go ahead Leading international climate scientists are among more than 200 academics who have written to the government calling on...

Khan pledges £5m to help pandemic-struck West End and calls for postwar-style recovery investment London's mayor, Sadiq Khan, will launch his re-election campaign by promising £5m to bring jobs and tourists back to the...

Balladur was accused over arms deal kickbacks, but ex-defence minister receives suspended jail term The former French prime minister Édouard Balladur has been cleared of financing his failed 1995 presidential campaign w...

Washington, D.C. is on heightened alert and the U.S. House has canceled its Thursday session after a new law enforcement bulletin warned "militia violent extremists" have discussed plans to take over the Capitol on or ar...

A koala and her baby who were rescued from the devastating Australia wildfires of 2019-20 have been returned to the wild.

The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a sweeping policing bill named after George Floyd, whose death in custody sparked global protests against racial injustice. Democrats pushed through the George Floyd Justi...

President Biden blessed the plan to lower the income cap for Americans receiving checks of up to $1,400, a crucial concession to moderates whose backing is needed to pass the bill.

Mohamedou Ould Salahi was once Guantánamo's highest-value detainee, but during the 14 years he spent behind bars he was never charged with a crime. Salahi and his former guard Steve Wood reflect on their time at the pri...