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Seattle activists just can’t settle on a name for their cop-free protest pace. Once known as the “Capital Hill Autonomous Zone,” or CHAZ, the protesters behind the festival-like takeover of a six-block radius aroun...

Officials didn't specify if the departures are specifically due to Floyd's death, but the decisions to leave were made recently.

California's Attorney General is being asked to investigate the death of Robert Fuller, a 24-year-old black man who was found hanging from a tree. It happened early Wednesday in the city of Palmdale, 60 miles north of Lo...

The Supreme Court issued its opinion on Bostock v Clayton County, about LGBT employment discrimination.

Two Democratic senators on Monday asked U.S. Defense Secretary Mike Esper what happened to $1 billion in aid for Afghanistan the Trump administration said it would cut nearly three months ago, according to a letter revie...

The justices' decision not to hear any new cases follows the recent death of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, while in police custody.       

National Union of Journalists of the Philippines has accused government of 'weaponising' law against Rappler website.

The warplanes took off from various air bases in Turkey, targeting the PKK at Qandil, near the Iranian border.

Officers responded to a report of a man "waving around a handgun," the city's police department said

Relatives of a Saudi Arabian princess, who has purportedly remained imprisoned for over a year after trying to fly to Europe for routine medical care, are now fearing the worst about her health, claiming that they have n...

President Trump has invited to the White House the leaders of two quarreling Balkan nations, in a bid to broker a resolution to a decades-long dispute that prompted a U.S. military intervention in the region.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a number of cases involving a legal defense called qualified immunity that can be used to shield government officials from lawsuits including police officers accused of e...

In Mexico, seriously ill coronavirus patients rely on nurses to keep them in touch with their families.

Jane Fonda is among the 100+ advocates, scholars and celebrities who co-signed a letter urging Joe Biden to pick Sen. Elizabeth Warren as his VP.       

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a series of new cases seeking to expand gun rights.

A teenager who pleaded guilty to robbery in the fatal stabbing of Barnard College student Tessa Majors is set to be sentenced on Monday.

Boston’s mayor says he’s considering taking down a statue of former President Abraham Lincoln standing before a freed black man after a petition was launched for its removal. Mayor Marty Walsh’s office said he’s ...

A Virginia sheriff has apologized to a black pastor who was arrested for pulling a gun on a group of white neighbors as they allegedly assaulted and threatened to kill him. Pastor Leon McCray, 61, told his congregation t...

Three young female opposition activists in Zimbabwe, who charge they were tortured and sexually assaulted by state agents, were sent back to prison when a court denied them bail on new charges that they lied about their ...

A specific mutation in the new coronavirus can significantly increase its ability to infect cells, according to a study by U.S. researchers.

Rayshard Brooks' widow said in a TV interview Monday that she can’t watch footage of her husband being fatally shot in the back by Atlanta police because she’s “already in enough pain.” “I'm already in enough p...

The Daily Beast reported that Mary Trump will also say that she was a source of The New York Times's coverage of the president's tax returns. The Times declined to comment on the claim.