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The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday cast an immediate spotlight on the vacancy on the high court, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowing to bring President Donald Trumps nominee to a vote with just over six weeks b...

A jury began deliberations Friday in the murder trial of a southern Indiana man accused of killing his exgirlfriend and eating parts of her body.

A whistleblower from the Department of Homeland Security who says he was pressured to suppress facts in intelligence reports says he wont be able to testify before a House panel until the department gives him more access to relevant information, according...

European nations from Denmark and Iceland in the north to Greece in the south announced new restrictions on Friday to curb surging coronavirus infections in some of their largest cities, and Britain was considering a new national lockdown.

The United Nations agreed on Friday to step up monitoring of reported right abuses during Belarus's crackdown on protests, angering Minsk and its ally Moscow and raising the diplomatic stakes in the crisis.

Cyprus is trying to salvage a dismal tourist season by touting that only five of the roughly 200,000 tourists that have spent their holidays on east Mediterranean island nation this summer have exhibited any COVID19 symptoms.

Two of the summer's most talked about novels, Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half and Megha Majumdar's A Burning, are on the National Book Awards fiction longlist. Judges also nominated the story collection If I Had Two Wings, by Randall Kenan, who died in...

A federal judge has blocked Michigan's longstanding ban on transporting voters to the polls, ruling it conflicts with U.S. election law.

Hungarys prime minister said Friday that the government has drawn up a war plan to defend against the new wave of the coronavirus pandemic and that the countrys health care system is prepared to handle to rising number of new virus cases.

Fresh restrictions on social gatherings in England, potentially involving limiting pub opening hours, appear to be on the cards soon as the British government seeks to suppress a sharp spike in new coronavirus infections.

Tropical storm Noul made landfall in Vietnam on Friday, killing at least one person and triggering heavy rain in the central parts of the country, though authorities later downgraded the weather system.

The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan is warning that extremists groups are planning attacks against a variety of targets but are taking particular aim at women.

Japan said on Friday it will send a fiveperson team to Mauritius to investigate the grounding of a Japaneseowned ship off the country's coast that led to an environmental crisis.

Though famously skeptical of the United Nations, U.S. President Donald Trump harnessed its collective power to impose crushing sanctions on North Korea in a bid to start talks with Pyongyang, but faces frustration over a similar push on Iran.

Federal prosecutors said on Thursday they had filed additional charges against Lev Parnas, a onetime associate of President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who was already facing campaign financerelated charges.

Across Europe, governments are battling to contain the fresh spike in cases, while wanting to avoiding inflicting fresh damage on their economies and imposing broad new restrictions on their virus-weary populations.