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The pickup truck driver charged with causing the deaths of seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire last year told authorities he had drug problem, regularly used heroin and cocaine but believed he was not impaired at the time of the crash.

Germany will impose an emergency monthlong lockdown that includes the closure of restaurants, gyms and theatres to reverse a spike in coronavirus cases that risks overwhelming hospitals, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday.

Venezuelas President Nicols Maduro said Wednesday that a large oil refinery suffered a terrorist attack as his government struggles to provide domestic fuel to the crisisstricken nation.

Hurricane Zeta was poised to crash into Louisiana on Wednesday with a "lifethreatening storm surge" and winds that will reach far inland, the state's sixth lashing this year from a Gulf Coast storm.

Authorities are pursuing misdemeanor charges against a City Council member in the Detroit suburb of Warren who is accused of handcuffing a woman who placed Black Lives Matter stickers on President Donald Trump campaign signs, police said.

Nigeria's Lagos state government asked the army to intervene to restore order amid antipolice brutality protests, but soldiers did not shoot civilians, the military said, an assertion an Amnesty International investigation disputed on Wednesday.

The top US diplomat, who arrived here from India on Tuesday for a two-day visit, will hold talks with the country's top leadership as America seeks to balance China's growing influence in the region.

These states will play a critical role in delivering the 270 electoral college votes needed to win the White House. Due to a surge in mail voting amid the coronavirus pandemic – as well the states’ varying rules for when ballots can be counted – the resul...

A Michigan judge sided with gunrights advocates on Tuesday in allowing the open carrying of firearms at Election Day polling sites, blocking enforcement of an order by state authorities barring such displays of weapons to prevent voter intimidation.

A growing number of GOP leaders in Kansas are calling for the resignation of three elected officials who were recorded planning a coverup of their role in a plot to smear the Democratic mayor of the state's largest city.

Daniel Menaker, an awardwinning author of fiction and nonfiction and a longtime editor at The New Yorker and Random House who worked with Alice Munro, Salman Rushdie, Colum McCann and many others, has died at age 79.

The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday welcomed the permanent ceasefire agreement signed by the rival sides in Libya and called on the parties to implement it and show the same determination in reaching a political solution.

Seeing chaos where others don't, President Donald Trump is falsely asserting that voting by mail is proving to be rife with problems across the country. For the most part, the surge in early votes has been managed smoothly.

These states will play a critical role in delivering the 270 electoral college votes needed to win the White House. Due to a surge in mail voting amid the coronavirus pandemic – as well the states’ varying rules for when ballots can be counted – the resul...

Gunmen shot dead a Houthi official in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday, a rare killing of a civilian administrator in the city controlled by the armed movement.

The incident took place in Southall last year just as Isichei was on his walk back home after a drink at his local pub in the area.