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Sexual assault is excused as normal and forgivable. It's not. Ask the women who've experienced it.

Monday: Jill Cowan joins California Today, Christine Blasey Ford agrees to testify, and a Cambodian refugee opens a restaurant in Oakland.

Authorities in Hong Kong on Monday took an unprecedented step against separatist voices by banning a political party that advocates independence for the southern Chinese territory on national security grounds. …

A former Yale classmate of US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh accuses him of sexual misconduct.

Barbara's husband was a victim of the contaminated blood scandal that left nearly 3,000 people dead.

It's not just the Kavanaugh mess. Over the long term, the court risks a crisis of legitimacy.

FIFA spent $11.7 million in less than three years on private jets, including luxury sight-seeing trips for a top official, a newly published legal document shows. Jerome Valcke, then the …

Natasha Ednan-Laperouse checked labelling but sesame was not listed, he tells inquest A father whose 15-year-old daughter with severe food allergies died after eating a baguette from Pret A Manger has told an inquest tha...

Measuring the effect of a political endorsement is tricky: For some voters, it may be a determining factor. For others, it may simply match previously-held beliefs. But endorsements do offer a telling gauge of how a poli...

There I was, driving through a parched landscape on a pilgrimage to watch a single flower bloom. Why?

Fiction by Yiyun Li: "One morning when Jiayu opened her eyes she said to the ceiling, Grief, I don't know who you are, so don't pretend you know who I am."

Former Mayor Mike Bloomberg said he'll decide whether to mount a 2020 challenge of President Trump after the midterm elections. "Right now, I'm only focused on the midterms," Bloomberg told CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" on ...

After USA TODAY found major retail brands such as Target and Costco enable an unjust system at trucking companies, a new law is passed.        

Embattled Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has resigned verbally to Chief of Staff John Kelly as he anticipated being canned by President Trump, Axios reported Monday, citing a source. "He's expecting to be fired,"...

Iran's Fars news agency said on Monday that five attackers were killed in Saturday's attack on a military parade in southwest Iran that killed 25 people.

Kenya's military says it's killed 10 rebels from the al-Shabab extremist group in an ambush in Kenya's south where several soldiers have died from roadside bombs. Three soldiers were wounded …

Bill Cosby has arrived at the Montgomery County courthouse for the beginning of his two-day sentencing hearing.

"I am with him all the way," the president says of the embattled US Supreme Court nominee.

The 800-metre recreation for the premiere of Ilya Khrzhanovsky's film Dau caused safety concerns A controversial art installation that would have rebuilt part of the Berlin Wall in the German capital has been put on hold...

A Congolese civil society group says that 18 people have been killed in attacks by suspected Allied Democratic Forces rebels in the eastern city of Beni, as the city and …

Poetry by Nick Flynn: "He wanders / among us, village to // village, hauling his sack / of rats."

Tiger Woods may have grabbed the headlines after winning his first title in five years at the Tour Championship, but it was Englishman Justin Rose who pipped his rival to pick up the most lucrative prize on offer Sunday.