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A fast-growing network of activists sees the pandemic as an opportunity to push legislation that bans the consumption of dog and cat meats.

Folk music hasn't always been as progressive as it might be - so it's heartening to see queer-friendly collectives like Bogha-frois and FemFolk flourish In February, on the final night of this year's Celtic Connections f...

Was I wasting my life -- my fragile, fleeting life -- on activities I neither cared about nor enjoyed?

'White Lives Matter Burnley' banner was flown over the Etihad Premier League club will display inclusive message at Turf Moor Burnley will demonstrate further opposition to the "White Lives Matter Burnley" banner flown o...

Safoora Zargar was arrested in April and charged under stringent anti-terror law for protesting against citizenship law.

"Going forward, no comedy-loving kid needs to stumble on these tropes and be stung by their ugliness," Fey said.

Mayor Jenny Durkan says the violence is "increasingly difficult" for businesses and residents.

A disturbing video has emerged of a double amputee being pepper-sprayed by police during a protest in Columbus, Ohio — and left crawling on the ground after they appear to remove his prosthetic legs, according to repor...

Margaret Payne has climbed the equivalent of the Highlands' Suilven to raise almost £350,000.

As protesters demanding an end to police brutality and systemic racism again clashed with authorities outside the White House on Monday night, the president took to Twitter to ask why he didn’t see a different kind of ...

A U.S. Army soldier gave classified information about American troops stationed overseas to a white supremacist group, federal prosecutors alleged Monday.

One-third of Medicare recipients diagnosed with Covid had to be hospitalized, and more than a quarter of that group died, according to federal data released Monday.

At vigil for slain 3-year-old in Chicago's Austin neighborhood: 'Another mother has to bury another son and another dream dies'

A Baltimore restaurant manager turned away a black woman and her son due to the boy's outfit - despite a white child nearby dressed in similar athletic wear who was served.

Protesters attempted to tear down a statue of Andrew Jackson in a park just outside the White House on Monday night. Photos from Lafayette Square in Washington D.C. show a rope tied around the statue of Jackson with the ...

President Trump's campaign asked to add another, earlier debate and proposed that each campaign have a role in selecting the debate moderators

Navarro says turning point came when Chinese delegation failed to alert US to Covid-19 during Washington trip in January The White House trade adviser Peter Navarro has said the trade deal with China is "over", linking t...

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said Monday that officials will move to wind down the city’s autonomous protest zone following two shootings in the area over the weekend. Police officers will also soon return to the abandon...

Newly released court documents reveal that authorities in Idaho used data from the cellphone of Lori Vallow's brother to locate the remains of her two missing children. Jonathan Vigliotti reports.

Rapid increases in cases across the U.S. South and West are raising fears that progress against COVID-19 is fading

White House officials claimed that Trump was joking when he said Saturday that he asked to slow down testing.

Imperial College London has "reached a significant milestone" after delivering a small dose of its coronavirus vaccine candidate to the first healthy volunteer in its trial. So far, all has gone according to plan. The cl...