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The body of a Louisiana State University freshman missing since last week was found in the Mississippi River, authorities said Wednesday. LSU Chief of Police Bart Thompson confirmed that remains pulled from the river in ...

The United States is prepared to sanction dozens of Russian individuals and entities and expel as many as 10 Russian officials and diplomats in response to election interference and hacks, people familiar with the matter...

An Ohio woman is charged with murder and assault, after she allegedly killed her teenage son and hid his body in his bedroom for two months. The body of Dominic Allen, 19, was found in the Cincinnati home of his mother K...

On Thursday, four Democratic lawmakers will stand on the steps of the Supreme Court to introduce legislation expanding the country's highest court from nine to 13 justices. The bill is being proposed by Sen. Edward Marke...

A North Carolina teacher was gunned down in a shootout with members of a Mexican drug cartel last week, a report said. Barney Harris, who taught and coached basketball at Union Academy in Monroe, and his brother-in-law S...

A Black Lives Matter activist from Seattle has been arrested — for an alleged anti-Asian hate crime, according to reports. Christopher Hamner, 51, who is black, was charged with allegedly attacking three Asian-American...

A Canadian lawmaker was caught in the buff during a virtual House of Commons conference on Wednesday, a report said. William Amos, a Liberal MP, was recorded on camera standing nude in his office, flanked by the Quebec a...

A Louisiana man has been charged in the 2004 cold case murder of a college student whose body was found in an abandoned building in Texas, police said. David Anthony Burns, 43, of Boyce, was arrested Tuesday on a second-...

UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the Human Rights Council that “the original sin of slavery weaved white supremacy into our founding documents,” as the Biden administration lobbies the body to re-admit the ...

The Biden administration declared a national emergency on Thursday, slapping sanctions on three dozen people in Russia and expelling 10 diplomats in retaliation for Moscow’s meddling in last year’s presidential elect...

German leader Angela Merkel will reportedly get her first shot of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine Friday -- despite her nation being one of many limiting its use over blood-clot fears.

Denmark’s top health official suddenly fainted at a press conference Wednesday announcing the country would be halting use of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Video of the briefing shows Tanja Erichsen, the head of Denmark’s...

Minnesota cops arrested 24 people for rioting and curfew violations in the fourth night of protests over Daunte Wright's police shooting death -- with one man mocking officers by parading a severed pig's head on a stake.

The body of a man found by a fisherman Tuesday morning near the Calumet River on the Far South Side died of multiple gunshot wounds, officials said Wednesday.

The president said the main objective of ensuring that Afghanistan would not be a launching pad for terrorism had been achieved and that it was time for American troops to come home.

Forget climate change. It's a climate emergency.The evidence is irrefutable, and now dozens of news outlets worldwide are joining the thousands of scientists who have been clamoring ever more loudly for the world to take...

The inspector general is set to testify Thursday.

Democrats are preparing to unveil legislation that would add four seats to the US Supreme Court. The bill, first reported by The Intercept, is expected to be introduced in both the House and Senate on Thursday. It would ...

The bill creates a commission to study slavery and discrimination in order to better educate the public about reparation and what compensation would look like.

A body recovered in the Mississippi River this week has been identified as missing Louisiana State University student Kori Gauthier, authorities said.

The bill's the opening salvo in what promises to be a brutal legislative fight with conservatives over the top court's political balance.

Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) on Wednesday said if "something really formal" happens with the Justice Department's investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Republican leadership will "of course react and take action." T...