Career criminal Avon Long, 79, received a 32-years-to-life prison sentence for barging into the octogenarian’s apartment where he forced himself on top of her and covered her mouth during a sickening sexual assault that lasted for more than an hour nearly two years ago.

Researchers found that lenacapavir reduced almost 100% reduction new HIV infections among participants who received it as a twice-yearly injectable.

Felix Baumgartner, who once broke the world record for the highest skydive by jumping from the edge of space, has died in a paragliding accident in Italy. The 56-year-old fell to the ground near the swimming pool of a hotel while flying over the village of Porto Sant'Elpidio in the eastern Marche region.

The yet-unidentified woman was discovered floating in the river, just off Canal and West streets, around 7:50 p.m., police said.

Syria has been wracked by a new wave of deadly sectarian violence that has placed the spotlight on the Druze minority at the center of rising tensions with Israel. Dozens of people were killed this week after clashes between government loyalists and Druze militias in the southern city of Suwayda,

An A.C.L.U. lawyer said it was possible that any sheriff who complied with the request could be in violation of California’s so-called sanctuary state law.

But data and news reports about the first month’s arrivals show the majority of Alligator Alcatraz’s detainees do not have U.S. criminal convictions.  President Donald Trump, federal officials and Florida Republicans touted the remote Everglades immigration detention centers — dubbed Alligator Alcatraz — as a place to detain people deemed the "worst of the worst.

North Carolina's Democratic Gov. Josh Stein decided Wednesday against appealing a trial court ruling that did not go in his favor last month, securing a small victory for Republican lawmakers whom the governor was challenging.

Tributes have been paid to "a loving son, brother, uncle and friend to many" who died in a crash in Staffordshire. Callum Knott, 26, from the Stafford area, died when the car he was travelling in hit a tree on the A51 near Aston Marina in Stone at about 21:00 BST on 7 July.

After eight years in a psychiatric institution, 22-year-old Morgan Geyser will be released after her involvement in the 2014 "Slender Man" attack that shocked Wisconsin.