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Federal guidance recommends those living in an area of substantial or high transmission of COVID-19 wear masks indoors, regardless of vaccination status.

Sources said China also wants Taliban help in exploiting the country's vast mineral wealth as Afghanistan’s location at the crossroads of central, south and southwest Asia makes it geopolitically attractive for Beijing.

Georgia's top law enforcement agency has completed its investigation into the death of a 40yearold Black woman found dead after attending an adult sleepover party in 2018, saying Tuesday that its findings do not support the pursuit of any criminal charges...

The conviction of a New Yorker charged with providing material support to Hezbollah by seeking targets in New York City for terrorist attacks was upheld Tuesday by an appeals court, though one of three judges questioned the 40year prison sentence, saying...

An injured bear cub that was rescued after it suffered burns in a California wildfire is being nursed back to health at a wildlife center at Lake Tahoe.

People who watched the first day of a House investigation into the Jan. 6 uprising at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday were exposed to the sort of blunt language, including profanity and racial slurs, rarely heard on daytime television.

A 15yearold high school football player died after collapsing at the first day of practice in middle Georgia.

Civil rights leaders, including the Revs. Jesse Jackson and William Barber, were among 39 people arrested Monday after refusing to leave the Phoenix office of Democratic U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who has faced unrelenting pressure from liberal activists o...

Former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer was assaulted and robbed Monday in Oakland, California, her son said.

The firing of Guatemalas top anticorruption prosecutor and new allegations that someone close to the attorney general was soliciting bribes for protection from investigations have increased concerns that what little capacity the country still had to battl...

A Michigan county was ordered Monday to claw back COVID19 relief payments from some of its workers after a resident challenged the way the federal money was approved by local officials.

A man who opened fire at a backyard party in Fort Worth early Monday, killing one and injuring three, died after being chased by fellow partygoers who threw landscaping bricks at him, Texas authorities said.

Cyprus. Cuba. Turkey. Canada. Northern Ireland. Antarctica. All recorded their hottestever temperatures in the last two years, and according to a new study, more such extremes are coming.

Fernando Karadima, a Chilean priest who was at the center of a sexual abuse scandal that has recently shaken the Catholic Church in Chile and who was eventually defrocked by the pope, has died. He was 90.

More than 1,000 demonstrators gathered around one of Haiti's most notorious gang leaders on Monday to commemorate slain President Jovenel Mose.

A judge has ordered a man accused of planning to kill sorority members at an Ohio university to remain behind bars.