One day after jurors in the trial of Baltimore Police Officer William Porter announced they were deadlocked, the judge in the case has declared a mistrial. The jury couldn't reach a verdict on involuntary manslaughter and three other charges Porter faced over the death of Freddie Gray last April.

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Most people are familiar with at least a few details of basketball's humble origin story: the creative gym teacher who thought it up, the simple peach baskets for hoops, and the sport's initial lack of dribbling.

But now, thanks to the discovery of a 1939 recording of a radio ...

Last summer, officials in Poland thought they had located a long-lost Nazi train that, as legend had it, was filled with gold and hidden in an underground tunnel. Now, new information from a team of experts makes it look that the train is just a myth after all.

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A new Pentagon report says the security situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated during this year's fighting season, with more Taliban attacks and higher casualties among Afghan forces. The report also says ISIS is becoming a greater threat in that country.

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The name Abby Wambach is so closely intertwined with U.S. women's soccer that it's hard to mention one without the other.

Wambach, who first donned the red, white and blue in 2001 — before her record-shattering college career at the University of Florida was even over — helped the U.S. ...

Bill Cosby went on the offensive against seven of the women who have accused him of sexually molesting them. He says they are lying about him for financial gain.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports the comedian is taking aim at a group of women who accused him, then sued him ...

Seattle on Monday became the first U.S. city to vote to allow Uber and Lyft drivers to unionize and negotiate issues such as pay and working conditions.

The National Labor Relations Act regulates the right to unionize, but it doesn't guarantee that right for independent contractors like the ...

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held by the Taliban for five years after he left his base in Afghanistan in 2009, could receive life in prison.

Overriding the recommended punishment by an Army officer, head of Army Forces Command Gen. Robert B. Abrams ordered that Bergdahl, now the subject ...

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced Monday he would not lift the ban on Pete Rose, meaning the legendary hitter also will not be eligible for the Hall of Fame, according to current rules.

As NPR's Tom Goldman previously reported for The Two-Way, Manfred was considering the request ...

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A person of interest has been detained as authorities continue to investigate the cause of a fire that damaged a mosque in Southern California.

Riverside county law enforcement "believed this was an intentional act potentially resulting in a hate crime," according to the Riverside County ...

Drones: it takes one to catch one.

In Tokyo, police will soon deploy a drone designed to take out suspicious drones or drones that enter into restricted airspace.

"Terrorist attacks using drones carrying explosives are a possibility," a senior member of the police department's Security Bureau told the Asahi ...

The Department of Homeland Security has taken the lead in the search for two Afghan men who went missing while training with the U.S. military at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia.

Air Force officials have said the men were screened before entering the U.S. and that there's no evidence ...

Two deputy city marshals in Marksville, La., were indicted on second-degree murder charges for the fatal shooting of 6-year-old Jeremy Mardis while he was in his father's SUV.

The grand jury also indicted the two marshals, Derrick Stafford, 32, and Norris Greenhouse Jr., 23, on second-degree attempted murder for shooting ...

Divers are searching a San Bernardino lake for any evidence that may be relevant to the investigation into the Dec. 2 shooting rampage that left 14 people dead, the FBI says.

David Bowdich of the FBI's Los Angeles office would not say what they were searching for, but said that ...

A pedestrian bridge spanning the U.S.-Mexico border now connects San Diego and Tijuana.

The airport terminal, called Cross Border Xpress, opened Wednesday and will improve travel for fliers going from Tijuana to the United States. Such travelers make up about 60 percent of all the airport's passengers, the ...

In one of several courtroom outbursts Wednesday, Robert Lewis Dear, who is accused of killing three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado last month, declared his guilt and said he is "a warrior for the babies."

During the hearing to formally charge Dear with first-degree murder and ...

Three unmarked Boeing 747 passenger jets that have been sitting at the international airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for more than a year could soon be auctioned off.

That's according to ads the airport placed in The Star, one of the country's largest English daily newspapers, and The Sin ...

A new report by Amnesty International details how weapons from countries including the U.S. have ended up in the hands of Islamic State fighters, who have used them to commit "serious human rights abuses and [violate] international humanitarian law."

The report, Taking Stock: The arming of Islamic State, calls ...

The House has overwhelmingly voted to tighten the program that allows citizens of 38 nations to travel to the U.S. without obtaining a visa. The measure, which passed the House 407-19 and is supported by President Obama, will now require visas for anyone who has traveled to Iraq or Syria ...