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Iraqs parliament on Wednesday approved the state budget for 2021, after weeks of wrangling amid a severe economic and financial crisis spurred by low oil prices and the pandemic.

The Biden administration on Wednesday expressed concern about what it called escalations of Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine, where Ukrainian forces have been fighting Russianbacked separatists since 2014.

Legislation provides protections for cannabis users in the workplace, housing, family court and in schools, colleges and universities.

Breaking with predecessor Donald Trump's four-year effort to staff federal courts with largely white male conservatives, Biden unveiled his first 11 picks for judges, with only two of them men, neither of them white.

The trajectory of the conservative network Newsmax is a clear example of how statistics can tell different stories, depending on how you look at them.

The State Department on Tuesday ordered nonessential U.S. diplomats and their families to leave Myanmar, as a deadly government crackdown on demonstrators protesting last months coup intensifies.

Texas' power grid that buckled during February's deadly winter storm would operate under new oversight and mandates that power plants prepare for more extreme weather under proposed overhauls Tuesday that moved closer but are still far from Republican Gov...

President Joe Biden's pleas for states to stick with mask mandates to slow the spread of the coronavirus were being largely ignored Tuesday as several Republican governors stayed on track to drop the requirement in their states.

Two members of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City reality television show were arrested Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging that they used a business to cheat hundreds of people nationwide over a 10year period in a telemarketing scheme.

A few hundred Honduran migrants set out for the Guatemalan border before dawn Tuesday in hopes of eventually reaching the United States though all other recent caravans have been broken up far short of that goal.

The container reportedly got a boost from a high tide caused by a supermoon — a full moon that raises water levels with its strong gravitational pull on the Earth.

An Oklahoma County Detention Center employee who was taken hostage over the weekend was beaten and stabbed by inmates during the ordeal, police said Monday.

In the mosque violence case, around 500 to 600 unnamed people have been made accused in the case filed at the Paltan Police Station on the night of March 26, officer-in-charge Abu Bakar Siddique told IANS.

Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military ousted and detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1, triggering mass protests demanding a return to democracy.

Mexican prosecutors have opened a homicide investigation into the death of a woman who was shown on video being pinned to the ground by a female police officer, authorities said on Sunday.

Harris has recently been spotted at her future home, popping in for an hour-long visit three weeks ago.