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When Washington, D.C.s NFL team dropped the offensive reference to Native Americans from its name last month after decades of resistance, activist Frances Danger knew why: the Black Lives Matter movement.

A 48hour curfew took hold Tuesday in the Gaza Strip for the first time since the start of the global pandemic, a day after the first cases of community transmission of the coronavirus were detected.

The stinging success of Mozambique's Islamic extremist rebels in seizing and holding a northern port city signals to the government, neighboring countries and the world that Africa has yet another insurgency hotspot.

Swiss bank Credit Suisse said Tuesday that it plans to close 37 branches in its home country as part of an effort to streamline its business, and said that some job cuts are inevitable.

President Donald Trump warned Republicans who officially backed his bid for a second term on Monday that November's election could be "rigged" despite offering no evidence, as the party began outlining its vision for the future on the first night of its n...

China reported 14 new COVID19 cases for Aug. 24, all of which were imported infections involving travellers from overseas, the country's health authority said on Tuesday. 

Since the coronavirus began spreading widely in the United States in March, Biden has done few public events, most of them close to his Delaware home.

President Donald Trump adopted a grim tone in remarks to Republicans who formally backed his bid for a second term on Monday, warning without evidence that he could face a "rigged election" in November.

More drylightning hit Northern California on Monday after sparking over 625 wildfires the past week but firefighters got some relief as temperatures eased off record highs.

Portland police used tear gas on protesters and made 23 arrests as it declared a demonstration against police brutality a "riot" late on Sunday, saying a group of over 200 demonstrators lit fires and attacked officers with lasers, mortars, rocks and bottl...

Few of Mexicos cultural traditions have been hit as hard by the coronavirus pandemic as lucha libre wrestling. The death toll among wrestlers has risen dramatically and wrestling arenas are closed, throwing almost everyone out of work.

Democrats are sharpening attacks on a former congressman who was quietly elected to the Miami GOP's executive committee despite a federal investigation into a $50 million lobbying contract with a favorite Republican target in south Florida: Venezuela's so...

The coronavirus outbreak sent Atlantic City's casinos plunging to a $112 million second quarter gross operating loss as the gambling houses remained closed for the entire threemonth period, according to figures released Monday by state gambling regulators...

New York state's attorney general is investigating whether U.S. President Donald Trump improperly manipulated the value of his assets to secure loans and obtain economic and tax benefits, and accused his son Eric of being uncooperative in the probe.

More than twodozen former Republican U.S. lawmakers, including former Senator Jeff Flake, endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president on Monday, the first day of the Republican National Convention, in the latest rebuke of President Donald Trump by members o...

Authorities in Greece say four crew members have been injured in an engineroom explosion on a ferry at Iraklio port on the island of Crete.