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Authorities were investigating Friday after a protester allegedly threw a suspicious package at the construction site for the Enbridge Energy Line 3 replacement pipeline, according to Enbridge and the Carlton County Sheriffs Office.

An alleged gunman's addiction to opioid medication was the driving force behind last weeks shooting at a Minnesota health clinic that left one person dead and four injured, a veteran investigator said in his application for a search warrant.

Republican lawmakers in Georgia's state House on Thursday introduced a sweeping election bill that would place restrictions on absentee voting and ban counties from holding early voting on Sundays, a popular day for Black churchgoers who vote during Souls...

Hotel rooms for $1,000 a night. Gasoline prices spiking. Even bottled water prices doubling or tripling overnight.

A new Kansas legislator accused of abusive behavior before taking office received a written warning Thursday from a committee that investigated his conduct, and it directed him to accept a fellow lawmaker as a mentor.

The U.S. government issued interim guidance on Thursday sharply limiting who can be arrested and deported by immigration agents, a move that comes as the Biden administration faces growing pressure from activists to scale back deportations.

A federal judge has dismissed a discrimination lawsuit by a transgender fire chief who led a rural Georgia city's fire department for more than a decade, then got fired 18 months after first coming to work as a woman.

A group called Myanmar Hackers disrupted multiple government websites including the Central Bank, Myanmar Military's propaganda page, state-run broadcaster MRTV, the Port Authority, Food and Drug Administration.

The president of the The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields resigned on Wednesday, days after the institution apologized for posting a job listing seeking a new director who would maintain the museums traditional, core, white art audience.

Mexican authorities announced Tuesday that rolling blackouts would hit 12 states covering more than onethird of the country, extending the power cuts from northern Mexico into the central part of the nation as hundreds of factories were forced to shut dow...

Georgia's governor is backing a plan to overhaul the state's citizen's arrest law, taking aim at a statute scrutinized last year after white men fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man they claimed had committed a crime.

The military's justification of its Feb. 1 seizure of power and arrest of government leader Aung San Suu Kyi and others came as protesters again took to the streets and after a UN envoy warned the army of "severe consequences" for any harsh response to th...

At least one person was dead and more than 4 million were without power in Texas after a rare deep freeze forced the state's electric grid operator to impose rotating blackouts because of higher power demand.

The heaviest snowfall to hit Greece in 12 years triggered power cuts, disrupted transport and trapped people in their homes on Monday.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that his plan to lift the COVID19 lockdown would be cautious but irreversible and would include the earliest possible dates for reopening the economy.

A Turkish court handed jail sentences on Monday to four employees of a nowdefunct proKurdish newspaper on terrorism charges, a lawyer in the case said, describing the verdict as politically motivated.