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After mothballing its old Confederatethemed state flag, Mississippi could choose a new one with a magnolia, a shield with wavy lines representing water, or an edgy representation of the Mississippi River snaking along the states western border.

Joe Biden and fellow Democrats spun an assortment of facts to their benefit in their national convention, omitting inconvenient truths such as Barack Obama's record of aggressive deportations and swift action by a Republican president to save the auto ind...

More than half of global fatalities have been reported in four countries: the United States with 1,75,416, Brazil with 1,13,358, Mexico 59,610 and India 55,794.

The head of the U.N.'s atomic watchdog agency will head to Tehran next week to press Iranian authorities for access to sites where the country is thought to have stored or used undeclared nuclear material, the organization said Saturday.

The House is convening for a rare Saturday session to address mail delivery disruptions, poised to pass legislation that would reverse recent changes in U.S. Postal Service operations and send $25 billion in emergency funds to shore up the agency ahead of...

Plane Carrying ‘Poisoned’ Putin Critic Alexei Navalny Leaves Russia for Germany After Day-Long Delay

An inmate suffered extreme pain" as he received a dose of pentobarbital during just the second federal execution following a 17year lag, according to court filings by lawyers representing one of the inmates scheduled to be executed next.

U.S. Navy Secretary Kenneth Braithwaite and members of Congress visited submarine construction operations in Rhode Island and Connecticut on Friday.

Travelers left behind nearly a million dollars at U.S. airport security checkpoints last year, including about $19,000 in foreign currency, a newspaper reported Friday.

With scores of disciplinary records already online, a federal judge on Friday lifted a temporary restraining order that had barred New York Citys police watchdog agency, police department and other entities from making such information public.

Hong Kong will offer free coronavirus tests to its residents starting Sept. 1 as it grapples with its worst outbreak since the pandemic began, leader Carrie Lam said Friday.

Kenya's police have teargassed protesters holding a peaceful demonstration against alleged corruption including the theft of supplies for the fight against COVID19

Britain's government debt has breached the 2 trillionpound ($2.6 trillion) mark for the first time after heavy borrowing to support the economy during the coronavirus pandemic.

Tourists will have to stay for at least 30 days, with the first 14 days in quarantine in a limited vicinity of their hotel, before they can visit other areas, Tourism Authority of Thailand governor Yuthasak Supasorn told Reuters.

It was just 20 years ago that the U.S. census began to allow Americans to identify as more than one race. And now, the country is on the threshold of seeing the name of Kamala Harris -- proud daughter of a Jamaican father and Indian mother -- on the natio...

Several dozen aging U.S. veterans, including some who were in Tokyo Bay as swarms of warplanes buzzed overhead and nations converged to end World War II, will gather on a battleship in Pearl Harbor next month to mark the 75th anniversary of Japan's surren...