Jurors said they were deadlocked after 18 hours, but the judge pushed them to keep trying to reach a verdict in the high-profile case of a mother who strangled her three children.

Former gang boss Duane "Keffe D" Davis has been found guilty of orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur - the first conviction in a cold case that has intrigued hip-hop fans for nearly 30 years. The jury found him guilty of one count of murder with a deadly weapon for the rap superstar's death in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas on 7 September 1996.

With just a few weeks to spare, the House approved legislation extending funding through mid-December.

The small island nation wants the top U.N. court to decide who can claim two remote islands and draw the surrounding sea border. But France has to agree first.

CIA chief's Moscow visit and Russian finance minister attending a G20 meeting in the US signal renewed US-Russia dialogue.

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The U.S. has struck a deal to take majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela's oil reserves, nine months after the U.S. military abducted President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores in a raid on Caracas and two months after The New York Times revealed that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has become the de facto viceroy of Venezuela.

Twenty years ago, scholars could be accused of antisemitism just for acknowledging the Israel lobby exists. Today the lobby's influence has become an undeniable and ubiquitous issue in American politics.

U.S. Central Command did not say precisely what it was trying to destroy in Iran, but it said the attacks were aimed at Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

El-Sayed faces Trump ally Mike Rogers in what has quickly become a senate race characterised by personal attacks and insults between the two.

Cameras could help alleviate some concerns about ICE transparency and accountability after immigration officers were involved in over two dozen shootings under the Trump administration.

A whistleblower report warned the U.S. Postal Service dropped standard testing, troubleshooting and debugging processes for its new ballot screening tool due to pressure from the Trump administration.

Many Iranians in the diaspora remain caught in the paradox of opposing the war and the government in Tehran.