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Washington (AFP) - Two US states executed convicted murderers on Thursday, the third and fourth death sentences carried out in the country this week.  In Oklahoma, a man convicted of...

Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - For nearly 70 years scientists have been probing, measuring, drilling and generally getting to know South Cascade Glacier in the US Northwest, developing and...

Washington (AFP) - The head of the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Thursday accused Maryland authorities of negligence ahead of last year's collapse of the Francis Scott Key...

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...