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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. …

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 …

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.

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.

Canada's Barrick Gold Corp has agreed to buy Randgold Resources Ltd in an all-stock deal valuing the Africa-focused miner at $6.5 billion, to create the world's largest gold producer in an industry under investor pressur...

This is the age of the consumer--customer satisfaction builds brands and yields profits for providers that achieve and sustain it. Customer-centricity is new to law, and consumers have been reticent to demand it. That's ...

As you be following global news that all heads of 193 countries are meeting at 73rd UN General Assembly this week. For the first-time ever historically, TB is on the agenda. Will world leaders act to end TB by 2030 (a pr...

September 28 is the International Day for Universal Access to Information. As UNESCO frames it, "Universal Access" is bound up with the right to seek and receive information, an integral piece of the right to free expres...

Australian filmmaker James Ricketson took a stroll on a Sydney beach at dawn as he recuperates from more than a year in a Cambodian prison. Ricketson landed in Sydney on …

The United States and China are set to impose new tit-for-tat tariffs against each other's goods on Monday, the latest escalation in a heated trade war between the world's two largest economies.

Vietnam will hold a state funeral and national mourning this week for President Tran Dai Quang, who died last week of a viral illness at age 61. Flags will fly …