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A musician who played the bells at Duke Universitys iconic chapel at the end of each academic day, marking the end of class for countless students over five decades, died Thursday at age 73, the university said.

Police officers in Georgia pulled two people from a fiery wreck in a dramatic scene captured on bodycamera video.

Alabama is amending its lethal injection procedures to allow a condemned inmate to have his spiritual advisor in the execution chamber, state lawyers wrote in a Thursday court filing.

Trump on December 31 extended those orders until the end of March.

An Omaha gym owner has been convicted of sexually assaulting a onetime aspiring Olympic powerlifter under a rarely used provision of Nebraska's rape laws.

Newly proposed U.S. legislation targets Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernndez as allegations of ties to drug trafficking grow.

North Carolina's top elections administrator on Tuesday urged state lawmakers to move all of this year's municipal elections to 2022 and bump back next year's primaries from March to May due to delayed Census data.

Philanthropist Calvin Tyler Jr., and his wife, Tina, pledged $20 million Monday to his alma mater Morgan State University, which the university said is the largest gift to any HBCU ever made by one of its former students.

Lawmakers and rights official in Guatemala called Monday for an investigation into 30,000 fake COVID19 tests that were bought by public health officials.

One of them fell within the perimeter of the Green Zone but others landed in surrounding residential neighbourhoods, the security sources said.

A Germanborn archaeologist has been chosen to be the next director of Pompeii, which is still revealing its ancient mysteries centuries after a volcanic eruption destroyed the Roman city and is one of Italys most popular tourist sites.

Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's lawyers were expected to challenge the fairness of the proceedings, saying they've been tainted by Trump's comments soon after her December 2018 arrest on a US warrant.

John F. Kennedy's Harvard University sweater, given away to a television cameraman who mentioned that he was chilly while interviewing Jacqueline Kennedy, has sold at auction for more than $85,000.

From Thursday, Facebook has blanked out the pages of media outlets for Australian users and blocked them from sharing any news content, rather than submit to the proposed legislation.

Suspected Islamists killed at least 18 people in attacks in northern Burkina Faso and central Mali on Wednesday and Thursday, government and security sources said.

Ashley Archer, a pregnant, 33yearold Texas financial adviser, and her husband have been cautious about the coronavirus. They work from home, go out mostly just to get groceries and wear masks whenever they are in public.