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New Yorks attorney general is proposing legislation to overhaul the use of force by police, in many cases requiring deescalation tactics and other measures before officers take lethal action.

An incoming firstyear student at Stanford University has been named the new National Youth Poet Laureate. Alexandra Huynh, 18, is a secondgeneration Vietnamese American from Sacramento, California, who sees poetry both as a means to selfexpression and soc...

Roger Hawkins, the original drummer for the studio band immortalized as The Swampers in the rock hit Sweet Home Alabama, died Thursday.

Fourteen bodies have now been found at the home of a former police officer who was arrested this month for murdering two women, Salvadoran prosecutors said Thursday.

Ontario expects to permit outdoor gatherings of up to 10 people and allow nonessential retail to operate at 15% capacity starting June 14, contingent on certain vaccination rates being met, the premier announced on Thursday.

The African Union on Thursday called for civilian and military leaders in Chad to share power until elections can be organised following the death of President Idriss Deby and subsequent military takeover last month.

A Houston man who had been convicted in a 2010 fatal stabbing but was later eliminated as the killer by DNA evidence was declared innocent on Wednesday by Texas highest criminal court.

Guillaume Soro, a former prime minister and rebel leader in Ivory Coast, went on trial in absentia on Wednesday on charges he plotted a coup against President Alassane Ouattara.

27 EU countries approved a proposal from May 3 to loosen the criteria to determine 'safe' countries.

The B.1.617 virus variant, first identified in India last year, has been classified as a 'variant of concern' at the global level by the WHO.

A memorial honoring the 10 people who were killed during a shooting at a Texas high school in 2018 was unveiled on Tuesday, the third anniversary of the deadly incident.

Russia's Kliment Kolesnikov broke his own 50m backstroke world record at the European swimming championships on Tuesday as Britain's Olympic champion Adam Peaty took his fourth successive 100m breaststroke gold.

Charles Barkley has given $1,000 apiece to the more than 200 employees of a city school system in his native Alabama.

Facing a key bankruptcy court hearing and broad objections from attorneys representing childsexabuse victims and insurance companies, attorneys for the Boy Scouts of America have submitted a revised reorganization plan with details about the finances of i...

Sudan announced the resignation of the countrys chief prosecutor and the firing of the top judge Monday, without giving any reasons given for the changes.

An earlier study in late 2020 showed the vaccine provided a low immune response in older adults. The companies said the vaccine would not be ready until the end of 2021.