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The Russian state penitentiary service says a decision has been made to transfer imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in the third week of a hunger strike, to a hospital....

Global shares are mixed and U.S. futures have declined amid cautious optimism about a global rebound from the coronavirus pandemic....

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called off a trip to India amid surging coronavirus cases in the country....

LONDON (AP) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called off a trip to New Delhi amid surging coronavirus cases in India, as the U.K. kept a worried eye on a new variant first identified in the vast Asian country. The British and Indian governments s...

LONDON (AP) — Tottenham has fired manager Jose Mourinho, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press......

A prayer vigil was organized over the weekend at the Gurdwara Sikh Spiritual Center in Rockville following a mass shooting last week in Indianapolis that left several members of city's Sikh community dead....

A recent request for a seating plan to include a vaccinated-only section which would be exempt from social distancing requirements has been denied by the District government....

DUBAI (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi-based technology company Group 42 (G42) has formed a joint venture with Israel's state-owned Rafael Advanced Defense......

Georgia's well-known voting rights advocate, Stacey Abrams, is taking a carefully balanced approach in response to new laws many people have said are an attempt by Republicans to suppress votes by people of color....

LONDON (AP) — Person with knowledge of the situation says Tottenham has fired Jose Mourinho....

Charles County Public Schools will see 5,800 students from prekindergarten through 12th grade return in-person learning, while Montgomery County will see some students in grades 7 to 11 returning....

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - An approaching typhoon has flooded villages in the eastern and central Philippines, where more than 68,000 people have been evacuated to safety as a precaution although the unusual summer storm may not blow inland, officials sai...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — An approaching typhoon has flooded villages in the eastern and central Philippines, where more than 68,000......

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Several protesters were taken into custody Sunday night after authorities in North Carolina declared a police brutality demonstration an "unlawful assembly." For a third night in a row, demonstrators marched through downtown R...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Several protesters were taken into custody Sunday night after authorities in North Carolina declared a police......

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian state penitentiary service said Monday a decision has been made to transfer imprisoned Russian opposition......

MOSCOW (AP) - The Russian state penitentiary service said Monday a decision has been made to transfer imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in the third week of a hunger strike, to a hospital. The announcement comes two days after Na...

New Delhi was put into a week-long lockdown, as India reported its highest daily coronavirus infection toll since the Covid-19 pandemic started....

Officials believe the battery inside the 2019 Model S ignited after the collision, causing a fire that burned for four hours and required more than 30,000 gallons of water to put out....

Carrie Underwood brought the Academy of Country Music Awards to church. Maren Morris won two honors, including song of the year. Miranda Lambert performed three times and held on to her record as the most decorated winner in ACM history. And Mickey Guyton...

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian state penitentiary service says hunger-striking Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is to be hospitalized....

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian state penitentiary service says hunger-striking Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is to be hospitalized....

The U.S. is planning to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This is America's return to the international climate stage. We break it down for you....

(CNN) — Hester Ford, una mujer de Carolina del Norte que fue reconocida como la persona viva de mayor edad......

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Residents are being evacuated from Cape Town neighborhoods Monday as a wildfire spreading on the slopes of the city's famed Table Mountain was fanned by strong winds overnight and houses came under threat. City authoriti...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Residents are being evacuated from Cape Town neighborhoods Monday as a wildfire spreading on......

TOKYO (AP) - The vaccine rollout in Japan has been very slow with less than 1% vaccinated, causing concern about the postponed Tokyo Olympics that are scheduled to open in just over three months. Taro Kono, the minister in charge of the vaccine rollout, s...

TOKYO (AP) — The vaccine rollout in Japan has been very slow with less than 1% vaccinated, causing concern about......

Markus Buehler at MIT is learning from spiders. His lab turned the structure of spiderwebs into music, and could be on their way to "communicating" with them....

Almost a century ago, a law was passed that set up a once-a-decade fight for representation in Congress and the Electoral College after each census. It's meant that one state's win is another's loss....

Noel King speaks with Adeena Weiss-Ortiz, attorney for the family of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, who was killed by Chicago police on March 29. Body-cam footage is sparking new questions over the case....

A Tennessee court found Endo Pharmaceuticals liable for harm caused by its Opana ER opioid. The...

The jury will listen to closing statements in Derek Chauvin's trial today. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's health is deteriorating. And, all adults are now eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine....

There are plenty of annoying things about working from home that can tire us out, but moments of fun may give us a needed boost of energy....

The health of Putin critic Alexei Navalny is rapidly deteriorating, his team says, as he continues a hunger strike. His allies are calling for nationwide protests....

Today, eligibility is open to all adults in every state. Yet, there are headwinds to getting the rest of the population vaccinated....

The first powered flight on Mars is slated for Monday. It's a tissue box sized helicopter that will hover in the super thin Martian atmosphere, take some pictures and, hopefully, land safely....

Police say weapons recovered at the scene of a shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis were purchased legally, despite a state law that should have prevented the gunman from obtaining them....

Noel King speaks with Rose Eveleth about her illustrated book: Flash Forward....

A dozen European soccer clubs have announced plans to break away form their own...

Natalie T. Chase, a judge on Colorado's 18th Judicial District Court, agreed to resign after the Colorado Supreme Court censured her for racist and unprofessional behavior....

Australia's government has reversed a decision to strip soldiers of unit citations due to war crime allegations in Afghanistan....

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australia's government on Monday reversed a decision to strip soldiers of unit citations due to war crime allegations in Afghanistan and announced an inquiry into suicides among veterans and serving members of the military. ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia's government on Monday reversed a decision to strip soldiers of unit citations due to war......

Progressive congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D., Mass.) has called rent cancellation legislation...

New Delhi was being put under a weeklong lockdown Monday night as an explosive surge in coronavirus cases pushed the India's capital's health system to its limit. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said in a news conference the national capital was fa...

Highs should hit 70 Tuesday but only the 50s on Thursday....