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A Florida man convicted of beating and choking his brother's 13-year-old stepdaughter to death nearly 50 years ago is set to be executed Thursday evening.

Senate lawmakers on Thursday approved a short-term extension of a provision in the federal surveillance law to hash out the final terms of its reauthorization.

Police in Anchorage, Alaska, identified a recently found body as a 19-year-old indigenous woman who went missing in January.

U.S. officials on Thursday insisted that the economic pressure from the Navy's blockade of Iranian ports will force Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, relieving the global economic pressure that has spiked energy prices over the past two months.

The billionaires in Saudi Arabia are pulling the plug on LIV Golf. It won't be the first mega sports project they've given up on recently.

Emily Blunt is facing online criticism after telling unhappy workers to simply quit their jobs -- comments that many fans called tone-deaf coming from a Hollywood millionaire.

A peace initiative to end a decades-long conflict with Kurdish militants has been effectively "frozen" by the Turkish government, a top militant commander said on Thursday.

Brazil's Congress on Thursday reduced former President Jair Bolsonaro's 27-year prison sentence, a move that will likely be appealed to the country's Supreme Court.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth clashed with Democratic lawmakers in Congress for a second day Thursday, rejecting senators' accusations that the Iran war was launched without evidence of an imminent threat and waged with no coherent strategy.

The Senate has approved a bipartisan resolution to prevent its own members from using prediction markets, banning senators who are often privy to sensitive information from making bets on upcoming events.