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DENVER (AP) — A police recruit who had to have both of his legs amputated after losing consciousness and repeatedly collapsing during fight training at Denver’s police academy is suing those who allegedly forced him to continue the “barbaric hazing ritual” after paramedics ignored warning signs....

A US safety regulator announced Tuesday that it voted unanimously to hold Amazon responsible for faulty or unsafe products sold by third-parties on its website and app....

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday they agreed the Venezuelan government must quickly publish the vote tallies of Sunday’s contested election to end the crisis in the oil-producing country....

Correction: The headline of this article was updated to reflect that the CPSC is an independent federal agency....

Many criticize ex-president’s appearance at Black journalists’ conference as irresponsible...

Multiple landslides triggered by torrential rains in southern India have killed 93 people and left many others feared trapped under the debris.

New York’s judicial watchdog has decided that an Oneida County judge should be removed from the bench because of a “racially offensive, profane, prolonged public diatribe outside a high school graduation party.”

“It is a little unprecedented because it is very rare that people that are indicted after their arrest for something that is clearly not a crime or that they’re clearly excluded from prosecution for — which is the case,” Rocap said. “Nothing she did could she be prosecuted for.”

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Anti-government activists across Venezuela are toppling giant statues of Hugo Chávez to express their anger over the alleged stealing of an election by the late president’s handpicked successor, Nicolás Maduro....

Health officials are worried about what might happen if people are infected with bird flu and seasonal flu at the same time. It’s possible the viruses could swap gene segments, in a process that scientists call reassortment.

Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah commander and target of an Israeli strike on Beirut, was said to be a close adviser to the group’s leader and someone wanted by the U.S. government for his role in a 1983 bombing attack that killed roughly 300 American and French soldiers in Beirut....

William Laws Calley Jr., who as an Army lieutenant led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in modern American military history, has died. He was 80....