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Federal prosecutors recommend a 25-year prison sentence for a Coast Guard lieutenant accused of stockpiling weapons and targeting Supreme Court justices, prominent Democrats and TV journalists

A federal appeals court ruling is expected to end a 15-year-old legal fight in the U.S. over whether a Chinese television official incited torture in his country against members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement

A Minnesota man exposed as a former commander of a Nazi-led unit during World War II has died

Authorities say a Phoenix woman has been arrested on suspicion of killing her three children

A Southern restaurant chain known for tiny hamburgers and late-night service has filed for bankruptcy

A prosecutor in Georgia says advanced genetic genealogy testing helped authorities solve three rape cases from 1999

An appeals court has upheld former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s corruption conviction but ordered a resentencing after reversing his conviction on some charges

A 19-year-old man arrested in a San Antonio shooting that left two people dead and wounded five others says he was acting in self-defense when he opened fire during a concert at a bar

Defense lawyers for the man charged in the killing of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts are asking for his trial to be delayed

Police have assisted state investigators at the Michigan home of a gymnastics coach who had ties to disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar

Two more inmates have been killed at an understaffed Mississippi prison that has been shaken by deadly violence in recent weeks