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Reports from the US State Department reveal that nearly 80 percent of Syrian refugees arriving in the US over the past year were children.

A sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed on Wednesday while he was responding to a civil disturbance call in Northern California around 10:30 am.

Police say a 13-year-old boy was hit by a stray bullet while he was lying in bed inside a Massachusetts apartment.

Professors at 14 Pennsylvania state universities are expected to hit the picket lines again Thursday as their strike enters its second day.

Hawaiian officials met on Wednesday to discuss working conditions for fishermen living on the boats.

A former Penn State athletic director is denying a claim by a main witness against Jerry Sandusky that he was terminated as an assistant football coach because of his role in Sandusky's child molestation case.

The U.S. military says it detected a "failed" North Korean missile launch on Wednesday.

Here is The Latest news from the third and final presidential debate between Republican Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, less than three weeks before the Nov. 8 election (all times EDT): 10:33 p.m.

The attorney for a woman charged with driving her car into spectators at Oklahoma State University's homecoming parade and killing four people says he's given a judge and prosecutors a psychologist's report on a mental evaluation of the woman.

Police have released two men who were arrested after a shooting at a South Los Angeles birthday party left four people dead.

Government investigators said Wednesday they are looking into allegations that Department of Veterans Affairs employees in Colorado kept unofficial lists of veterans waiting for health care that could conceal how long it takes to get an appointment, possibly broadening a nationwide scandal.

The operators of an international website that advertises escort services have asked a California judge to throw out charges against them of pimping and trafficking prostitutes.

Authorities say a sheriff's deputy in a northern California county near the Oregon border has been shot to death.

Nine Arkansas death row inmates are asking the nation's highest court to review a decision upholding the state's lethal injection law, saying not taking up the case would lead to a wave of "intolerably painful" executions.

Dinosaurs have roared into Montana's race for governor with a renowned paleontologist who consulted with Steven Spielberg on the "Jurassic Park" movies saying the Republican candidate would spend taxpayer money on private schools that teach creationism and mislead children about how old the Earth is.

Santa Ana winds gusted out of the mountains of Southern California on Wednesday, driving up temperatures and fanning several small brush fires that erupted in the drought-stricken region.

Wisconsin's attorney general has asked a federal appeals court to let stand the conviction of a man found guilty in a case profiled in the popular "Making a Murderer" series on Netflix.

A man convicted of sexually assaulting a teenager pulled a razor blade and slashed his throat in an Orange County courtroom Wednesday moments after the verdict.

The Latest on the shooting of an Alaska police officer (all times local): 3:15 p.m.

The final cleanup is underway in Anchorage, Alaska, after the 1964 Good Friday earthquake helped turn a sea-side bluff into an auto junkyard.