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A debut novel about four Nigerian siblings and a family torn apart has won a $50,000 award. Tola Rotimi Abraham's Black Sunday is this year's winner of the Kirkus Prize for fiction.

Two conservative counties voted in favor of a non-binding measure to "Move Oregon's Borders" during Tuesday's polls, which also saw their northwestern US state predictably vote for Joe Biden in the race for president.

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Europe must rethink its openborder Schengen area, including a more robust protection of the zone's external frontiers, President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, after a spate of Islamist attacks in France and Austria.

Criminal organizations in Bolivia and other Latin American countries are bribing police and circumventing customs restrictions to smuggle parts of jaguars to mainland China, an investigation by environmental groups showed on Thursday.

The protests came as Donald Trump insisted without evidence that there were major problems with the voting and the ballot counting, especially with mail-in votes, and as Republicans filed suit in various states over the election.

Many Venezuelans are hoping for the reelection of U.S. President Donald Trump, whose campaign of aggressive sanctions against the South American nation's ruling Socialist Party has won over a broad swathe of President Nicolas Maduro's critics.

President Donald Trump's reelection campaign long maintained there were thousands of new supporters tucked into rural, red pockets of the country who would come out and vote for the president when asked.

Malawi said on Tuesday it will open a full embassy to Israel in Jerusalem, becoming the first African nation to do so in the contested city.

Uber, Lyft and other appbased ridehailing and delivery services spent $200 million in a winning bet to circumvent California lawmakers and the courts to preserve their business model by keeping drivers from becoming employees eligible for benefits and job...

Poland will announce more restrictions on Wednesday to halt the spread of the coronavirus, the prime minister's chief of staff Michal Dworczyk said, as daily infections and deaths reached new records, rattling investors anxious about the economic fallout.

The blue wave that many Democrats predicted may potentially fall short of the three to four seat gains they needed to take control of Congress's upper chamber.

Four years after Donald Trump became the first Republican in a generation to capture the trio of states, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin were again positioned to influence the direction of the presidential election. Trump kept several states, includi...

Oil rose around 2% on Wednesday after industry data showed crude inventories in the United States fell sharply, but trading was choppy as the outcome of the U.S. presidential election remained unclear.

Former college football coach Tommy Tuberville has recaptured a U.S. Senate seat for Republicans by defeating Sen. Doug Jones in Alabama. Jones had widely been considered the Senates most endangered Democrat.