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World-renowned Dr. John Felton developed vaccines to fight disease in third-world countries

Conservative Republicans argued that Tracy Thorne-Begland would press an activist agenda

Tracy Thorne-Begland's appointment to the city District Court judgeship was initially rejected by the General Assembly.

Parents jailed after 2-year-old girl found starving, in cardiac arrest.

Convicted Chicago mobster Frank Calabrese Sr. has died in prison at 75.

A Chilean judge has charged eight former military officers in the 1973 killing of leftist singer-songwriter Victor Jara.

Outgoing North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue issued pardons Monday to the Wilmington 10, a group wrongly convicted 40 years ago.

European police have arrested 103 people in 10 countries, all accused of being part of a migrant smuggling ring.

Anthony Lewis, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who wrote about the US Supreme Court, died on Monday in Cambridge, Mass.

A gavel rests on top of a desk in the courtroom of the Black Police Precinct and Courthouse Museum in Miami. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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