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Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, told local news reporters that he believed making Washington, D.C., a state would require a constitutional amendment.

The royal funeral, Little Simz, and the paper's End Femicide campaign - the best photography commissioned by the Observer in April 2021

On April 17, ahead of a state election, a maskless Prime Minister Narendra Modi boasted to a sea of cheering supporters: "I've never ever seen such huge crowds at a rally."

Efforts were still underway Friday to identify victims after a deadly stampede at a religious celebration in northern Israel killed 45 people.      

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday pardoned a man who was wrongly convicted of second-degree murder and first-degree arson in 1995, a news release from the governor's office said.

John Kerry previously had investments in energy-related companies that may end up being regulated by his policies as the new U.S. climate envoy, disclosure reports show.

US Army Spc. Vanessa Guillén was sexually harassed by another soldier at Fort Hood — but not the one who killed her last year, military officials said in a report released Friday. The Army announced that it had taken ...

At least 18 COVID-19 patients were killed in India when a hospital fire broke out Saturday, amid a devastating second wave of infections ravaging the country. Dozens of other patients at the Welfare Hospital in Bharuch w...

A felon in a stolen car struck and killed one police officer and critically injured another during a wild chase that temporarily shut down a municipal airport in one Phoenix suburb before ending at a car dealership in an...

Former US secretary of state says strained relationship is world's 'biggest problem', as he warns of Beijing's economic and military might Former US diplomat Henry Kissinger has said that US-China tensions threaten to en...

Scores also injured in the blast in southern city of Pul-e-Alam the day before Pentagon begins to pull out its remaining forces At least 21 people have been killed and nearly 100 wounded after a car bomb exploded in an A...

An internal dispute at the Treasury Department shows the challenge of tracking trillions of dollars of economic relief money.

Three Colorado cops involved in the brutal arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia — and later seen laughing and joking about the incident — have resigned, police said Friday. Loveland Officers Austin Hopp and Da...

The businessman, who made a fortune in home-building and insurance, spent lavishly to try to make the city a cultural capital.

Despite the widening southern migrant crisis, the Department of Defense announced Friday it is canceling further construction of the border wall that uses military funding, with billions of dollars being sent back to the...

Michigan State football has cut ties with a recruit accused of trying to extort an underage girl who refused his advances, school officials said in a statement on Friday. The team said it had informed 18-year-old cornerb...

Saturday's special election in Texas' 6th Congressional District is a bipartisan, 23-candidate scrum -- with the shadow of President Trump looming.

U.S. investigators are seeking to review Rudy Giuliani's phones and computers for communications with more than a dozen people. Including a Ukraine prosecutor.

The mandate was set to expire on May 11.

The employees of Houston-based Citgo were sentenced to lengthy prison terms in November.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign into law a bill that would stop Facebook, Twitter and YouTube from censoring politicians like Trump.