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A New Zealand jury on Friday found a man guilty of murder in the death of 22-year-old British backpacker Grace Millane. Millane died last December on her birthday after meeting the man through the dating app Tinder, going out for drinks with him, and then returning to his hotel apartment in central Auckland. Prosecutors said the man strangled Millane to...

Joe Olson was once such a passionate supporter of the National Rifle Association that he pledged to bequeath several million dollars from his estate to the gun organization upon his death. But the steady drip of investigations and misspending allegations and a shakeup at the top ranks of the NRA compelled him to alter his will. The NRA will no...

Washing his hands of Syria, President Donald Trump declared Wednesday the U.S. has no stake in defending the Kurdish fighters who died by the thousands as America’s partners against IS extremists. Hours later, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats walked out of a meeting at the White House, accusing him of having a “meltdown,” calling her a “third-rate...

As U.S. Vice President Mike Pence prepared to lead a delegation to Ankara to urge Turkey to agree to a ceasefire in its attack on Syrian Kurdish fighters, Russia offered Wednesday to mediate a resolution to the bloody conflict in northern Syria in an apparent attempt to assert Moscow’s role as a strong diplomatic force in the region. Ahead of...

The Washington Redskins have fired head coach Jay Gruden after an 0-5 start to the season, the team has confirmed.

The mayor of a town in northeastern Japan that will host Olympic soccer games says his city has received no funding from the central government that has promised to use the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to help in the reconstruction of the region. The Japanese government and Tokyo 2020 organizers are hoping to use the Olympics to showcase Japan’s recovery from...

Two months after a mother of five vanished from a Connecticut town, authorities say they’re still following up on more than 1,200 tips and leads.

Japanese police are searching for clues into why a man set a Kyoto anime studio on fire, gutting the building and crushing the hearts of many comic fans around the world. The man, screaming “You die!” stormed into Kyoto Animation on Thursday, doused it with a flammable liquid and set it on fire, killing 33 people and injuring 36 others....

A man screaming “You die!” burst into an animation studio in Kyoto, doused it with a flammable liquid and set it on fire Thursday, killing 33 people in an attack that shocked the country and brought an outpouring of grief from anime fans. Thirty-six others were injured, some of them critically, in a blaze that sent people scrambling up the...

Authorities are investigating the death of a teen girl who was found outside a vehicle in Utica early Sunday — a murder investigation about which few details are known but may be connected to an image on a social media account.

A 17-year-old girl with a small social media following in upstate New York was killed by a man she’d met recently on Instagram, who then posted photos of her corpse online, police said Monday.

Giants cornerback Kamrin Moore has been suspended “pending further investigation” following his arrest in an alleged domestic violence case in New Jersey, the team tweeted Monday.

An NJ Transit train smashed into a police vehicle in Long Branch Monday, causing major delays and snarling traffic in the area as authorities investigated.

No one was hurt, but the officer’s SUV was totally demolished.

Social media influencer Raymundo Diaz posted bail and was released from jail following his arrest on suspicion of sexual assault.

The attorney for Fotis Dulos has a simple message for author Gillian Flynn: “Be gone, girl.”

“Gone Girl” author Gillian Flynn says she is “absolutely sickened” by the suggestion that a Connecticut missing mother of five who vanished in late May could have staged her own disappearance in a revenge scheme to frame her estranged husband.

Fotis Dulos knows what the public thinks of him, and has a message for them: Wait until the facts come out.

The sister of a Connecticut man whose estranged wife, Jennifer Dulos, disappeared more than a month ago after dropping their five children off at school is now coming to her brother’s defense, saying he is nothing like the person being portrayed in police and media reports.

Hundreds of protesters swarmed into Hong Kong’s legislature Monday night, defacing portraits of lawmakers and spray-painting pro-democracy slogans in the chamber before vacating it as riot police cleared surrounding streets with tear gas and then moved inside. The three-hour occupation, which ended early Tuesday, came on the 22nd anniversary of the former British colony’s return to China, a city holiday,...