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A year of isolation made me consider all the casual, unwanted touch women endure -- and why it's so hard to refuse it.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he will sign the bill.

The United States has reported more known coronavirus variants in the last week -- nearly 4,300. Here's the latest COVID news.      

Spa employees have been targeted by police, according to a USA TODAY review of two dozen Georgia raids that led to 35 prostitution-related charges.      

The prominent Republican Congressman says the allegations against him are "as searing as they are false"

New York lawmakers voted Tuesday to legalize recreational marijuana, and Gov. Cuomo is expected to sign the bill into law. Here's what happens next      

A New York appeals court ruled on Tuesday that a defamation suit against former President Donald Trump filed by former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos can proceed. Zervos accused Trump of sexually assaulting her on t...

The case is one of several in which former President Donald J. Trump went after former aides that criticized him or his campaign,

A survey of more than 6,100 adults coming from every state indicated only 47% of respondents were members of a traditional religious institution.

Women service members and veterans lack equal access to high-quality care and safety measures, pushing them out of the VA health care system.      

Snow is expected for parts of the Northeast Wednesday night into Thursday morning.

A 65-year-old Asian woman was brutally attacked in New York City on Monday. Police said a suspect has been arrested and is facing hate crime charges.      

Two US Capitol Police officers who say they were injured during the January 6 insurrection are suing former President Donald Trump for inciting the crowd.

G. Gordon Liddy, the brash political operative who helped orchestrate the 1972 Watergate burglary, reportedly died on Tuesday at his daughter's Virginia home. He was 90. One of Liddy's sons, Thomas Liddy, confirmed his d...

Instead of extra guac, a canine Border Patrol agent found five pounds of fentanyl pills hidden in a stack of breakfast burritos.

A World Health Organization (WHO) report into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic said the virus probably spread to people through an animal, and was transmitted among humans no more than a month or two before it was...

The suspect accused of fatally stabbing one woman and wounding five other people inside a B.C. library reportedly has a criminal history.

Last month, the United Arab Emirates became the first country in the Arab world to put a spacecraft into orbit around Mars. But as it celebrates the achievement of its Hope probe, a group of Emirati scientists is already...

On the second day of Derek Chauvin's trial, eyewitnesses painted a harrowing and consistent picture of what they saw during the fatal arrest of George Floyd.

Security guards failed to intervene while a man kicked and stomped on a 65-year-old woman near Times Square, yelling, "You don't belong here."

A Border Patrol canine is being praised after preventing a large batch of fentanyl hidden inside burritos from being smuggled into the US on Monday. A Yuma Sector Border Patrol canine sniffed out nearly 5 pounds of fenta...

An intruder gained entry to the Swiss ambassador's residence in Washington, DC, on Monday afternoon and assaulted the ambassador, according to a statement filed in federal district court by the responding Secret Service ...