CINCINNATI Jurors failed to come up with a verdict against a white former police officer charged with murder in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black motorist and were leaning toward a lesser conviction, a prosecutor said Saturday after a mistrial was declared. The jury spent some 25 hours debating the outcome and indicated several […]

ATLANTA Wildfires near the Georgia-North Carolina line are spewing smoke so thick that residents are being urged to wear special masks if they must do outdoor activities. The fires — many of them suspected arsons — have prompted evacuations in Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee in recent days. The largest of dozens of ongoing wildfires […]

HUGHSON, Calif. A wanted man suspected of shooting a sheriff ’s deputy in “an execution” in Central California was arrested hours later after an alleged crime spree across more than 100 miles, authorities said. Stanislaus County Sheriff ’s Deputy Dennis Wallace was shot twice in the head as he checked on a report of a […]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand New Zealand is planning to send in military helicopters and a navy ship to rescue about 1,000 tourists and hundreds of residents who remain stranded in the coastal town of Kaikoura after a powerful earthquake today cut off train and vehicle access. The magnitude-7.8 quake struck the South Island just after midnight. […]

JAKARTA, Indonesia Transgender people and gay activists from across Indonesia have defied a wave of hatred against sexual minorities to crown a Miss Transgender at a national pageant held in absolute secrecy. A handful of journalists were notified just a few hours in advance of the location of the event, held in the capital, Jakarta, […]

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Like millions of Syrians, Wareef Hamedo fled the civil war in his homeland in search of safety and security. But in a decision he now regrets, he chose to go to Gaza. Hamedo’s family is among 12 Syrian households that found refuge in Gaza after the civil war erupted in 2011 […]