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John Cassidy writes about recent election wins by outsider candidates like Lori Lightfoot, in Chicago, and Zuzana Caputova, in Slovakia.

Police say the man accused of the Christchurch mosque attacks will face 50 murder charges and 39 attempted murder charges at his court appearance on Friday. Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant had been charged with one c...

The president insisted that his Florida resort has "extremely good control" after reports that a Chinese woman tried to gain entry.

Police in suburban Cincinnati are trying to positively identify a 14-year-old boy who says he is Timmothy Pitzen, a boy who vanished from Illinois in 2011. The teenager told police in Campbell County, Kentucky, that he e...

Republicans invoked the controversial "nuclear option" Wednesday by changing Senate rules to speed up confirmation of President Trump's nominees. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell moved to cut debate on executive appointme...

Police say Bradley Alan Bower "assaulted the cashier because of the way the cashier was bagging his groceries."        

The request is viewed by Democrats as vital first step towards oversight of Trump's income taxes and business network.

ALEC conferencescoach attendees to evangelize for conservative policies and arms them with ready-made legislation crafted with corporate help.        

Japanese prosecutors arrested ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn for a fourth time on Thursday on charges of trying to enrich himself to the tune of $5 million at the automaker's expense, in what media reports linked to pay...

Ethiopia urged Boeing to review its flight control technology and said pilots of state carrier Ethiopian Airlines had carried out proper procedures in the first public findings on the crash of a 737 MAX jet that killed 1...

Some Massachusetts state prisons began administering medication to treat opioid addiction in newly arriving inmates as part of a new law that took effect this week — a groundbreaking new program to help combat the opio...

Nicholas Flacco, 20, was shot in the chest and died Saturday night.

Illinois police on Thursday were running a DNA test to determine if a 14-year-old boy found wandering in Kentucky a day earlier is Timmothy Pitzen, who disappeared in 2011 around the time his mother committed suicide, ac...

The president is expected to announce plans for a summit meeting President Xi Jinping of China, though the two sides have not finalized a trade deal.

South Korea said Thursday it is considering dispatching a special envoy to North Korea as part of its efforts to get stalled nuclear talks back on track. Negotiations over North …

Authorities in the southern Mexico state of Guerrero are investigating an apparent car bombing that caused no injuries, but damaged seven vehicles in a rural town. Guerrero state security spokesman …

New video shows two professional boxers -- including an undefeated Olympic silver medalist -- beating the daylights out of a group during a one-sided brawl in a Florida parking garage, according to a report. The video, f...

Law makes it offence in Australia for firms not to remove videos, photos showing murder, torture or rape without delay.

Former Vice President Joe Biden released a video on Twitter addressing the allegations of unwanted and inappropriate behavior.        

19-year-old suspect has been accused of attacking people in at least four different occasions over the past two weeks in Southern California

Three more women have come forward with accounts of inappropriate touching involving former Vice President Joe Biden, a report in the Washington Post said Wednesday. The women -- Sofie Karasek, Vail Kohnert-Yount and All...

A dozen reporters covering state legislatures across the country scoured special interest groups to deliver this list two years in the making.