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Miami (AFP) - A former US ambassador who pleaded guilty to spying for Cuba for over four decades was sentenced in federal court on Friday to 15 years in prison....

Los Angeles (AFP) - Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter was released on bond and ordered to undergo treatment for gambling addiction on Friday, after his first court appearance since being accused...

Washington (AFP) - Sterilization rates abruptly spiked after the national right to an abortion was overturned by the US Supreme Court in 2022, a study said Friday. The research letter...

New York (AFP) - Salman Rushdie, targeted for assassination since 1989 over his writing, had long wondered who would kill him. When he was stabbed almost fatally, his first thought...

New York (AFP) - Large American banks reported solid earnings Friday behind still-high interest rates while offering varying views on the likelihood the United States can avoid a near-term recession....

London (AFP) - Global oil and gold prices shot higher Friday as worries mounted about the conflict in the Middle East widening. The tensions overshadowed the start of US corporate...

Los Angeles (AFP) - Sometimes all you have to do is ask for "HELP": That's what three men stranded on a deserted Pacific island learned earlier this week, writing the...

New York (AFP) - Fallen cryptocurrency wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried has appealed his federal conviction and 25-year jail sentence in a sweeping fraud case, according to a legal filing made public...

Los Angeles (AFP) - The former Japanese-language translator for Shohei Ohtani was charged with bank fraud on Thursday for allegedly stealing more than $16 million from the Los Angeles Dodgers...

Los Angeles (AFP) - It was the car chase that brought a nation screeching to a halt. On June 17, 1994, a white Ford Bronco containing a fugitive O