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Where to begin? Percussionists first. On National Postal Worker Day, a round of recognition for all the mail carriers who deliver our birthday wishes to Ndugu Chancler, Sameer Gupta, and Rashied Ali. Chancler's energizin...

The state flag, which features the blue bars and white stars of the Confederate battle flag, had flown over Mississippi for 126 years. It must be removed within 15 days.

As scientific evidence shows, tobacco-caused diseases such as heart disease, stroke, cancers, diabetes among others increase risk of COVID-19 (including risk of death), governments are taking strong measures to control t...

A white former Atlanta police officer charged with felony murder in the death of African American Rayshard Brooks was granted a bond of $500,000 on Tuesday.

The government's top infectious disease expert told a Senate panel that bars needed to be closed, and the Fed chairman cautioned that "a full recovery is unlikely" until safety is restored.

Authorities impose a security blanket across the city as Chief Executive Carrie Lam defends new law.

A group of European, Australian, North American and Japanese politicians demanded an independent U.N. investigation

Daily death toll climbs to 1,199 as top health official urges people to follow guidelines and curb spread of disease.

The Senate granted five additional weeks for the remaining money left in the program to be spent.

President Trump has written a letter of condolence to the widow of a prominent Japanese activist who died recently without ever seeing his daughter who was abducted by North Korea in 1977. Yokota Megumi was 13 when she v...

ROME – Italian police said on Wednesday they had seized about 14 tonnes of amphetamine pills worth around 1 billion euros ($1 billion) arriving from Syria, in what they described as the world's single largest operation...

Peyton Chesser wasn't taking chances when the coronavirus pandemic locked down the country in March. The 23-year-old Houston woman stayed home, even conceding grocery pickups to her roommate.

Extreme temperatures coupled with high humidity flowing from the Gulf of Mexico have set the stage for life-threatening heat in parts of the central and southern US.

Seattle’s no-cop “autonomous zone” is finally being cleared out following a vacate order issued by the city’s mayor early Wednesday. Mayor Jenny Durkan authorized police to remove protesters who are “unlawfully...

Police used tear gas to disband rioters wreaking havoc in Portland, Oregon, Tuesday night, new video shows. The footage shows the moment canisters of 2-chlorobenzylidene malononitrile, commonly called CS gas, are deploye...

There are some 2,000 asylum seekers living in tents along the border

A 3-year-old girl was shot Tuesday night in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side, officials said.

Around this time last year, Taiwan was gearing up to host Asia's largest ever Pride parade having just become the first place on the continent to legalize same-sex marriage.

Gen. David Berger, the Marine commandant, told ABC News that families of fallen service members are "entitled" to answers on an alleged Russian plot in Afghanistan.

The unexpected development came as spikes in coronavirus cases are causing renewed shutdowns of bars and other businesses

Eviction fears in New Orleans as coronavirus aid expires, unemployment rates remain high

University of Alabama students recently partied around campus — despite knowing they were infected with the coronavirus, a local report said Tuesday. Tuscaloosa Fire Chief Randy Smith said he discovered that “student...