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The World Health Organizations Europe office said it has begun discussions with Russia to try to obtain more information about the experimental COVID19 vaccine the country recently approved.

South Korea's intelligence agency believes that Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, is serving as his "de facto secondincommand" but has not necessarily been designated his successor, a South Korean lawmaker said on Thursday.

A former California police officer dubbed the "Golden State Killer" who confessed to 13 murders and dozens of rapes during the 1970s and '80s faces a life prison term when he is sentenced in Sacramento on Friday.

Hafsa was married off at 13 by her father to a man who paid $100. She and her mother say she was beaten and raped for two years before they convinced him to divorce her.

The US outbreak is a cautionary tale, it tells us that the world’s wealthiest country has bungled its public health and political response. To understand how we got here, we parsed through a trove of webinars headlined by America’s top infectious diseases...

The third night of the Democratic National Convention featured a lineup of highwattage political star power: former President Barack Obama, 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and, lastly, 2020 vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

The U.S. state of Michigan has reached a settlement to pay about $600 million to victims of the Flint water crisis, three newspapers said late on Wednesday, citing unidentified sources.

The new chief whip in Congress for Brazil's president said on Wednesday he is confident President Jair Bolsonaro's increased popularity in recent polls will help him push through tax reform and advance bills on bankruptcies and the autonomy of the central...

U.S. Senator Kamala Harris will get the Democratic Party's nod to run as Joe Biden's vice president at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, and former President Barack Obama will speak of his years when Biden was his vice president.

Northern Californians were confronted with multiple threats as wildfires, unhealthy smoky air, extreme heat, the looming possibility of power outages and an ongoing pandemic forced many to weigh the risks of staying indoors or going outside.

The group of student protesters marched up the wide roadway overlooking Interstate 280, the megaphones amplifying their voices nearly drowned out by the highway traffic below.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged people to boycott tires from Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., tweeting that the Ohiobased company had announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS.

A Maersk oil tanker has been anchored off the coast of Malta for two weeks after rescuing 27 migrants, including a child and a pregnant woman, with authorities in Malta and Tunisia denying the vessel entry, the company said on Wednesday.

Belarusian activist Veronika Tsepkalo plans to meet opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in Lithuania to discuss their next steps towards ousting President Alexander Lukashenko, but she indicated she would not return to her country soon.

A former oil industry attorney will continue calling the shots for a government agency that oversees nearly a quarterbillion public acres in the U.S. West, despite the White House saying over the weekend that President Donald Trump would withdraw the nomi...