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Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - Hollywood filmmaker Carl Rinsch was hired by Netflix to make a new science-fiction series. Instead, federal prosecutors say, he embezzled more than $11 million...

Washington (AFP) - Our earliest years are a time of rapid learning, yet we typically cannot recall specific experiences from that period -- a phenomenon known as infantile amnesia. A...

Washington (AFP) - An Oklahoma man convicted of killing a woman during a home robbery was put to death by lethal injection on Thursday, the third execution in the United...

Washington (AFP) - Sales of previously owned homes in the United States topped analysts' expectations in February, as increasing inventory allowed more buyers to enter the property market, according to...

Washington (AFP) - An Indian researcher at a top university in the United States with a valid visa has been arrested and is under threat of expulsion, according to his...

Washington (AFP) - The NBA's Boston Celtics are being sold to the head of a California private equity firm for $6. 1 billion, a record price for a US sports...

Maracaibo (Venezuela) (AFP) - Mervin Yamarte's family in Venezuela thought the 29-year-old -- arrested by US authorities amid President Donald Trump's migrant crackdown -- would be put on a deportation...

Paris (AFP) - France has expressed concern after US border agents read the contents of a visiting French space scientist's smartphone and deported him after accusing him of "hateful" messages...

Helsinki (AFP) - The United States fell to its lowest happiness ranking ever partly due to a rise in the number of Americans eating their meals alone, an annual UN-sponsored...

Montreal (AFP) - To sow or not to sow?Canola farmers in Canada's vast western Prairies region have found themselves in the crossfire of trade wars with both the United States...