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Matthew Apperson was convicted by a jury last month of second-degree attempted murder for firing at Zimmerman.

Barack Obama wants to take one more giant leap for mankind — this time to Mars.

PASSED out on the supermarket floor, her daughter pulls at her limp body, crying out for help.

HURRICANE Matthew has caused a storm of controversy in the US after the founder of a popular website suggested it could be a big conspiracy in support of climate change.

Florida has begun mandatory evacuations in Broward County with the state's governor urging everyone living in low-lying areas to evacuate. Florida Gov. Rick Scott said, it's never too early to evacuate at a Wednesday morning news conference. AP

The Pentagon paid a UK PR firm half a billion dollars to create fake terrorist videos in Iraq in a secret propaganda campaign exposed by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

A New Jersey Transit spokeswoman says that more than 100 people were injured, some critically, when a commuter train plowed into the Hoboken station. (Sep. 29) AP

Houston police say several people have been shot at a strip mall in the city's southwest and that officers shot the gunman. (Sept. 26) AP

Police in Charlotte, North Carolina, have released officer bodycam and dashcam footage of a controversial shooting of a black man on Tuesday.

Police say they have arrested a suspect in the deadly shooting of a protester during demonstrations in Charlotte over an officer's killing of a black man. (Sept. 23) AP

An Oklahoma prosecutor says arrangements are being made for the surrender of a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man on a Tulsa street. (Sept. 22) AP

Most active-duty members of the US military would prefer the government to refrain from overseas missions involving so-called nation-building

Second night of unrest rocks the city following the fatal police shooting of Keith Scott, a black man

North Carolina officers repeatedly warned an armed man to drop his gun before fatally shooting him, a police chief said.

The scene on I-85 appeared to devolve into looting, with people pulling items from tractor-trailers and burning boxes.

POLICE are “vetting” a Tumblr account that surfaced early Sunday taking credit for the bombing that rocked New York — and threatening further action

A bomb that exploded in New York City was an act of terrorism, Governor Andrew Cuomo says, but no link to international groups has been found.

Israel is not a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and maintains a policy of nuclear ambiguity, refusing to speak about its rumored nuclear arsenal and never even going as far as to admit that it has possession of nuclear weapons.

A settlement has been reached in the case of Sandra Bland, the black woman who died in July 2015 under suspicious circumstances while in police custody.

Hillary Clinton will not be the only American who has gone to work this week with an illness that should have kept her at home.