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Former Mexican defense secretary Salvador Cienfuegos stands accused by U.S. prosecutors of aiding the socalled H2 cartel ship drugs to the United States. But in a country where the names of drug lords and cartels are household words the H2 gang left many...

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan says he voted for the late Ronald Reagan for president, instead of President Donald Trump.

Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip fired a rocket into southern Israel on Friday, the Israeli military said. There were no reports of casualties or damage and no one immediately claimed responsibility for the rocket fire.

A Black woman who says she has received numerous racist and threatening messages as an Indiana congressional candidate against Vice President Mike Pence's brother called police after hearing what she thought was gunfire before a campaign event.

Floridas annual stone crab claw harvest has started amid new rules aimed at protecting future stocks and concerns about demand for claws due to the COVID19 pandemic.

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Drugmakers and research centers around the world are working on COVID19 vaccines, with large global trials of several of the candidates involving tens of thousands of participants well underway.

Azerbaijani authorities on Friday accused Armenia of expanding the conflict over NagornoKarabakh by shelling a different region in Azerbaijan, a claim rejected by Armenian officials.

Liverpool, the English port city that gave the world the Beatles, weathered decades of industrial decline before becoming a celebrated symbol of urban renewal. Now, the coronavirus is putting the citys hardwon revival in jeopardy, and raising tensions bet...

New Zealanders are poised to decide on two landmark social issues during an election Saturday: whether to legalize recreational marijuana and whether to legalize euthanasia.

The State University of New York at Oneonta on Thursday announced its president had resigned to pursue other opportunities, following a coronavirus outbreak that forced the school to switch to allremote classes for the rest of the semester.

Gilead Sciences Inc's remdesivir had little or no effect on COVID19 patients' length of hospital stay or chances of survival, a clinical trial by the World Health Organization (WHO) has found.

Republican U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse told Nebraska constituents in a telephone town hall meeting that President Donald Trump has flirted with white supremacists, mocks Christian evangelicals in private, and kisses dictators' butts.

A 71yearold Roman Catholic priest has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for breaking into a Navy submarine base in Georgia with a group protesting nuclear weapons.

A historically black university in Alabama has renamed a dormitory that honored a onetime governor who also led a Ku Klux Klan chapter nearly a century ago.

Joe Biden's presidential campaign said Thursday that vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris will suspend inperson events until Monday after two people associated with the campaign tested positive for coronavirus. The campaign said Biden had no exposure,...