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Two men who prosecutors say are members of an antigovernment extremist group, who toted guns on Minneapolis streets during unrest following the death of George Floyd and spoke about shooting police, blowing up a courthouse and killing politicians, have be...

A federal judge said Friday that she would order the Trump administration to stop detaining immigrant children in hotels before expelling them from the United States, a policy enacted during the coronavirus pandemic.

Americans headed into Labor Day weekend the unofficial end to the Lost Summer of 2020 amid warnings from public health experts that backyard parties, crowded bars and other gatherings could cause the coronavirus to come surging back.

Democratic nominee Joe Biden's transition team has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Trump administration to begin planning for a potential handover of power.

The poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who is in intensive care in a Berlin hospital, is damaging to Russia's leadership and makes it harder for Germany to cooperate with Moscow, German President FrankWalter Steinmeier said.

Thailand is racing ahead with contact tracing after detecting its first domestic coronavirus infection in over three months, health officials said on Friday, with tests conducted on nearly 200 people with possible exposure to the new case.

British freight haulers and storage companies are asking for an urgent meeting with government leaders because of concern that gaps in preparations for Brexit may threaten supplies of critical goods.

Rescue workers in Beirut dug through the rubble of a collapsed building with their hands on Friday, a day after signs of life were detected under a mound of debris one month after a huge explosion shattered the capital.

The fresh waters of Kenya's Lake Baringo teem with birds, fish, hippopotamuses and crocodiles and sustain tens of thousands of people. But none of them can survive in the alkaline Lake Bogoria nearby.

Using drones, shovels and picks, desperate Mexicans resumed searching for disappeared family members across remote parts of the country, restarting a torturous process that was largely halted when the COVID19 pandemic hit in March.

A flotilla from Sri Lanka and India was escalating efforts to douse a fire raging on an oil tanker east of Sri Lanka for a second day Friday.

As Mexico struggles to pay a water debt to the United States, President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador said Thursday he might personally appeal to President Donald Trump for clemency, or invite United Nations experts to audit water payments.

A 48yearold Oregon man said he acted in self defense during the fatal shooting of a supporter of a rightwing group in Portland as he thought he and a friend would be stabbed, Vice News reported on Thursday.

A divided federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a lower courts decision blocking the enforcement in Maryland of Trump administration rules that prohibit taxpayerfunded family planning clinics in the Title X program from making abortion referrals.

A deputy at a jail in downtown Detroit was beaten to death by an inmate while checking to make sure cell doors were closed, authorities said.

A Georgia congregation said Thursday that it has finalized its split from the United Methodist Church after the denomination's divisive vote last year to strengthen bans on samesex marriage and ordination of LGBTQ pastors.