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A former California police officer who lived a double life as the "Golden State Killer" was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for a string of 1970s and '80s murders and rapes that were solved through the use of public genealogy websites.

California's lightningsparked wildfires more than doubled in size into some of the largest in state history on Friday, forcing over 175,000 people to flee their homes.

After being accused by Democrats of being a chaotic and dishonest leader, President Donald Trump retaliated on Friday and said Democrats, not he, would bring chaos to the United States if Joe Biden wins the White House in November.

A former California police officer who became known as the Golden State Killer told victims Friday he was truly sorry before he was sentenced to life imprisonment for a decadelong string of rapes and murders across a wide swath of California.

Vice President Mike Pence is dismissing QAnon as a conspiracy theory, drawing a line of distinction between himself and President Donald Trump, who earlier this week suggested he appreciated supporters of the theory backing his candidacy.

Biden made the remarks as he formally accepted the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party on the final day of the four-day virtual Democratic National Convention on Thursday night.

Lebanon on Friday began a twoweek partial lockdown and nighttime curfew after coronavirus cases increased sharply following an explosion in Beirut that killed and injured thousands of people.

Libyas U.N.supported government has announced a ceasefire across the country and called for demilitarizing the contested strategic city of Sirte, which is controlled by rival forces.

U.S. Navy intelligence specialist Colleen Grace was asleep on a remote air base in Iraq in 2019 when she was woken up by knocking on the door next to her room, and then a voice she recognized.

Americans tuned into the Democratic National Convention were told Thursday that the higher minimum wage favored by presidential candidate Joe Biden would lift all fulltime workers out of poverty. That's not what $15 an hour is likely to do.

President Donald Trump is trying to keep his promised border wall with Mexico in the public eye during his reelection bid, touting it this week on a trip to Yuma, Arizona.

Two people have been killed fighting hundreds of wildfires ignited by intense lightning storms in California and tens of thousands have fled their homes as structures burn and the state runs low on firefighting resources.

Steve Bannon has been charged with defrauding Trump supporters in a campaign to help build the president's signature wall along the U.S.Mexico border, prosecutors said on Thursday.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious diseases expert, had surgery on Thursday to remove a polyp on his vocal cord, according to a spokeswoman from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

A sixth lawsuit has been filed involving the sudden deaths of patients at a West Virginia veterans hospital where a former nursing assistant admitted to intentionally killing seven people with fatal doses of insulin.

Three Tennessee police officers have been decommissioned after they broke down the door of an innocent family early Tuesday morning.