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One year ago, Chinese leader Xi Jinping pledged to spend 2021 reining in "disorderly" private businesses that were growing too powerful and taking on too much risk.

A man is wanted by police for allegedly fatally striking his brother-in-law with his truck after a Christmas party in Georgia over the weekend.

The Illinois State Capitol rotunda will feature a controversial holiday art display from The Satanic Temple that will stand alongside other religious exhibitions.

Head of Catholic Church makes some of his strongest comments yet on violence against women Pope Francis has said that men who commit violence against women engage in something that is "almost satanic". He made the commen...

Afghan resettlement scheme still not up and running four months after fall of Kabul, says Refugee Council The UK's failure to create safe routes for vulnerable Afghans is forcing thousands to make the "gut-wrenching" dec...

Kenneth Hopper, 58, stole $1,000 from the First Community Credit Union in Bridgeton and threatened to unleash an explosion there before being busted with the cash by St. Ann police.

The blackout occurred after a host joked about flashing a camera

Despite Brexit and Covid, foreign workers take up government's emergency visa scheme "We are Polish strongmen," laughs Piotr Zabiec, taking a break from another busy day processing turkeys on a farm near Chelmsford in Es...

A dead body was found inside the distribution center for QVC home-shopping television network in North Carolina one day after a fire ripped through the facility.

The group of looters allegedly went to an area "particularly hit hard by the tornado" on Friday and ransacked the destroyed homes.

Many pro-democracy figures and experts say that the low turnout is directly tied to the lack of meaningful opposition

Top U.S. officials want us to believe that the Pentagon carefully spares civilian lives while making war overseas. ----Such pretenses should be grimly laughable to anyone who has read high-quality journalism

Cook County and the state offer mass vaccination clinics in three locations as variants spread in advance of holidays.

A 21-year-old man was found dead Sunday in a North Carolina distribution center, a day after a massive fire broke out.

After 12 days of testimony, Ms. Maxwell's closely watched sex-trafficking trial is nearing its end. Follow live updates.

The bill, yet to be signed into law, would tighten rules around foreign ownership of media Poles have staged nationwide protests including a thousands-strong rally outside the presidential palace to demand the head of st...

In a state-of-the art communal workspace in the Uzbekistan capital of Tashkent, Durdona Bakhronova sits surrounded by women and young students.

Ronald Edwin Hunkeler was a NASA engineer who patented a special technology to make space shuttle panels resistant to extreme heat, helping the Apollo missions of the 1960s that put US astronauts on the moon in 1969. But...

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker has tested positive for coronavirus, the Democrat announced on Sunday.

Most front pages focus on potential tougher Covid restrictions by Christmas, amid a surge in cases.

A BBC investigation finds evidence Myanmar's military killed 40 villagers in July, torturing some to death.

Chace Harrison, 11, died in hospital three days after falling from a castle blown into the air.