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President Donald Trump defied requests to stay away and visited Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, not to urge racial healing after a white officer shot a Black man in the back but to express support for law enforcement in a city rocked by civil unrest.

A Georgia man who was seen slapping a female reporter's rear on live TV pleaded guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor charge of sexual battery.

The U.S. government will send an "overwhelming majority" of the rapid COVID19 tests it purchased from Abbott Laboratories last week to governors of states and territories to support school reopenings and other critical tasks, an administration official sa...

Officials responded Tuesday to a release from a well platform off the shore of Padre Island in Texas and the Coast Guard has a pollution response team on the beach to monitor the situation.

Russia's tally of confirmed coronavirus cases surpassed 1 million on Tuesday as authorities reported 4,729 new cases.

Ten guards taken hostage by gang members in a Guatemala prison were released early Tuesday after hours of captivity and negotiations with police.

Social distancing and hygiene measures to rein in the spread of the coronavirus will be in force for upcoming Dutch local and national elections, the government announced Tuesday, creating a possible headache for local authorities who have to organize the...

Protests flared again in Portland overnight on Monday as demonstrators clashed with police on the streets of the city which after months of sometimes violent confrontations has become a focal point of the U.S. presidential race.

The head of the Czech Senate declared himself to be Taiwanese in a speech at Taiwan's parliament on Tuesday, channelling late U.S. President John F. Kennedy's defiance of Communism in Berlin in 1963, in remarks likely to further rile Beijing.

As eight Navy midshipmen file into their economics class, instructor Kurtis Swope points to the antibacterial wipes on the desk. Did you grab wipes? he asks, then tells each one to take two, wipe down the desk when they arrive and again when they leave. T...

For a president with a plunging economy and the worlds fourthhighest number of confirmed COVID19 deaths, Mexicos Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador isnt doing so badly.

Liberty University, one of the world's largest Christian learning institutions, said on Monday it will launch a wideranging investigation into the tenure of Jerry Falwell Jr, who stepped down as president last week amid a series of personal scandals.

A person was hospitalized in critical condition Monday following a plane crash in Bryan, Texas, that killed a 21yearold woman and her parents, police said.

New Jersey and California on Monday took incremental steps toward resumption of their prepandemic economies by allowing restaurants to begin limited indoor dining, as new coronavirus cases abated nationwide despite some new hotspots.

A U.S. appeals court on Monday, in a victory for the Trump administration, ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a Democraticled House of Representatives panel seeking to enforce a subpoena issued to former White House Counsel Donald McGahn.

A May 2021 trial date was set Monday for Steve Bannon, President Donald Trumps former chief strategist, on charges that he cheated donors to a group seeking to fund a southern border wall.