Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will face a second and final retrial over the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended his 30-year rule, a high court said on Thursday.
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Investigators have determined that four members of an Alaska family, whose remains were discovered in March after being reported missing a year ago, died in a murder-suicide, police said on Wednesday.
A man who landed on the U.S. Marshals Service’s most-wanted list for the slayings of his parents in New Hampshire last year was captured in Florida on Wednesday after an anonymous tipster recognized him from news reports, authorities said.
Tennessee prosecutors said on Wednesday they would seek the death penalty for the three men charged with the kidnapping and murder of nursing student Holly Bobo, who disappeared in 2011, and whose remains were found about three years later.
An Atlanta police officer accused of allowing a murder suspect to escape a blockade has been arrested and suspended without pay, authorities said on Wednesday.
Usaamah Rahim, who was fatally shot after waving a knife at police on Tuesday, allegedly discussed with an associate a plot to kill a person outside of Massachusetts.
The Pentagon said on Wednesday that 51 labs in 17 U.S. states and three foreign countries have received suspected live samples of anthrax and that the number may rise as an investigation continues.
Two men suspected of assaulting a police officer in Texas and stealing his vehicle were killed after a three-hour chase, one of them shot by police and the other found dead inside the vehicle, authorities said on Wednesday.
A senior U.S. envoy said on Wednesday the growth of the Islamic State militant group had global implications and could “wreak havoc on the progress of humanity” if unchecked.
London’s police officers are to be equipped with 20,000 body-worn cameras, more than in any other city, to help them gather evidence and improve public confidence in them, authorities said on Wednesday.
Rescuers searched a sunken cruise ship in the Yangtze River on Wednesday for more than 400 missing people, many of them elderly, but hopes of finding more survivors were fading in what could be China’s worst shipping disaster in almost 70 years.
As part of that plea agreement, prosecutors had recommended a sentence of seven years — a year more than what he received — for Kadyrbayev, a Kazakh national. The plea deal also requires him to be deported after serving his sentence.
A police officer, badly wounded in a gunfight with the Boston Marathon bomber four days after the deadly attack, was likely hit by a bullet fired by a fellow officer attempting to shoot the fleeing suspect, a Massachusetts prosecutor said on Tuesday.
This much is clear: Nehemiah Fischer — a 35-year-old pastor — is dead. Brandon Fischer, a restaurant owner, is behind bars on charges of assault and public intoxication. Authorities are investigating. And their father says a family in mourning is searching for answers.
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency used a wider array of sexual abuse and other forms of torture than was disclosed in a Senate report last year, according to a Guantanamo Bay detainee turned government cooperating witness.