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The official committee representing survivors of childhood sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy is asking for authorization from the judge to issue subpoenas for information that it claims is being withheld by the organization and its loca...

U.S. Attorney William Barr promised more manpower and federal aid to Oklahoma on Wednesday to help tribal governments and federal prosecutors deal with an increase in criminal cases stemming from a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision.

President Donald Trump falsely blames Democratic rival Joe Biden for the deaths of 308,000 veterans who he said couldn't get health care because of the Obama administration's policies.

Seven people were shot and wounded Wednesday in an apparent driveby shooting outside a Milwaukee funeral home, the city's mayor said.

Iraqi Kurdish Prime Minister Masrour Barzani condemned Wednesday's rocket attack in Erbil and called on Iraq's federal prime minister to hold those responsible accountable.

A Louisiana man and a Florida man allegedly gained access to professional athletes social media accounts and either sold the information or used it to extort payments, according to federal criminal complaints released Wednesday.

Nearly half of Argentina's population was dragged into poverty in the second quarter of this year by the brutal effects of the the coronavirus pandemic on the country's longstanding economic crisis, researchers estimated on Wednesday.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin planned to meet face to face for the first time in more than a month Wednesday in a lastditch effort to seal a tentative accord on an additional round of coronavirus relief.

The Trump administration is targeting the soninlaw of retired Cuban leader Raul Castro with sanctions as it steps up its campaign against the communist islands government ahead of the U.S. presidential election in November.

Broadway director Schele Williams is working on a book for young people about the history of enslavement.

Afghanistans chief peace envoy Abdullah Abdullah ended a threeday visit to Pakistan on Wednesday optimistic the uneasy neighbors have turned a corner from a relationship marked by suspicion and downright hostility toward a partnership for peace in the reg...

A Wisconsin woman accused of neglecting her son, causing his death and hiding his body in the trunk of her car for months has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges.

The former superintendent of a Pennsylvania school district and two other officials were charged Wednesday with felony child endangerment over allegations they knew about lead and asbestos contamination in the schools but failed to do anything about it.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has welcomed China's plan to be carbonneutral by 2060, contrasting it with the U.S. failure to abide by the goals of the Paris climate accord.

The relatives of 12 Hong Kong people arrested by China at sea last month called for access to their detained family members in a petition to the mainland's representative office in the semiautonomous city on Wednesday.

A congressional intelligence committee has issued a subpoena to compel a senior U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official to testify about accusations that it had meddled in intelligence reports for political purposes.