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The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday subpoenaed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy for records about the widespread mail delivery delays that have pulled the Postal Service into the political spotlight as it prepares to handle an onslaught of ballots in...

Both President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden will commemorate the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in rural Pennsylvania where one of the hijacked planes crashed in a field, the White House and Biden's campaign announced Wednesd...

The Bank of England said Wednesday there are perfectly understandable reasons why the majority of office workers have yet to return to their prelockdown workplaces despite new coronavirus guidance from the British government.

Daimler AG on Wednesday unveiled the new version of its MercedesBenz SClass luxury sedan, the company's most important model and one it hopes will generate fat profits to help the Stuttgartbased automaker through the COVID19 recession and wrenching struct...

Another wealthy parent was charged Wednesday with trying to bribe his child's way into an elite university as a fake athletic recruit, a day after two former college coaches caught up in the nationwide admissions bribery scandal were hit with additional c...

Joe Biden may have one of his best chances for a Southern victory in North Carolina, where he stands to benefit from a mildmannered Democratic governor praised for his balanced approach to controlling the coronavirus.

An Israeli Hasidic Jewish man has been beaten by local residents during a pilgrimage to a Ukrainian town, police said Wednesday.

Greek authorities have prevented thousands of migrants from entering Greece clandestinely by sea this year despite a recent lack of cooperation from the Turkish coast guard, the country's shipping minister said Wednesday.

A Saudi court has sentenced seven Islamic State militants to death over a 2014 shooting attack that killed eight Shi'ite Muslims near the eastern city of alAhsa, state television reported on Wednesday.

The number of elephants dying in western Zimbabwe from a suspected bacterial infection, possibly from eating poisonous plants, has risen to 22, and more deaths are expected, a spokesman for the countrys parks agency said Wednesday.

The Nobel laureates, winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Medicine and Physics, stressed the importance of elected leaders making decisions based on science, particularly during a global pandemic.

From behind the large windows of Barcelona's Centre Parc nursing home, elderly residents blow kisses, give virtual hugs and speak to loved ones on the other side of the glass using mobile phones.

The family of Paul Rusesabagina hailed a hero in a Hollywood movie about Rwanda's 1994 genocide has demanded that authorities in Kigali charge him in an international court after his sudden detention, his son told Reuters on Wednesday.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) said on Wednesday it had signed a multiyear deal to prepare China's athletes for the next two Olympics at its "Performance Institute" in Shanghai.

Earlier studies had pointed to the domination of a mutant form of the virus in several parts of the world in which a molecule aspartic acid -- denoted as D -- in the viral spike protein, which it uses to enter host cells, is replaced by another molecule g...

Ethnic Mongolians in China's north have staged rare protests over changes to school curriculums that remove Mongolian language from core subjects, a show of defiance that has led to curfews in some areas, according to an advocacy group.