World

Videos released Thursday by Chicago police depict disturbing scenes of officers wrongfully raiding the home of a Black woman who was not allowed to put on clothes before being handcuffed.

As states rush to inoculate health care workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, only Tennessee has prioritized building its own emergency reserve of the coveted vaccine.

Eight nuns living at a suburban Milwaukee convent have died of COVID19 in the last week, according to the School Sisters of Notre Dame Central Pacific Province.

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he was yet to be inoculated with the Russianmade vaccine against COVID19 but that he would do so when possible.

A winter storm marched up the U.S. East Coast on Wednesday, delivering a disruptive blow to transportation systems and a welcome day off for some school kids, but not for many who have been learning remotely during the pandemic.

Ethnic Armenian authorities in the region of NagornoKarabakh accused Azeri forces on Wednesday of capturing several dozen of their troops, putting further strain on a ceasefire deal that brought an end to bloody fighting in the region last month.

Stepping up pressure, the nation's six largest veterans groups on Wednesday called on President Donald Trump to immediately fire Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie over the mishandling of a congressional aide's allegation of a sexual assault at a VA...

Here are some reactions from church figures, NGOs and political leaders to New Zealand's Royal Commission of Inquiry report on historic abuse of children in state and faithbased institutions that estimated that up to quarter of a million people were abuse...

Three blocks from the White House, office space for more than 500 Biden transition staffers sits mostly idle. The government is shipping out laptops so staffers can work from home. Presidentelect Joe Biden, surrounded by just a handful of aides in Delawar...

Environmental and Alaska Native groups asked a federal court in Anchorage on Tuesday to stop the U.S. Interior Department from opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas exploration before President Donald Trump leaves office next m...

Eager to increase their chances of having access to at least one of the dozens of vaccines in development, many nations have snapped up allocations of several different drugs.

Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin passed an important test of his parliamentary support on Tuesday after a narrow majority of lawmakers approved his 2021 budget at the final stage amid a challenge by the opposition.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday congratulated Joe Biden on his victory in the U.S. presidential election, after Biden won the statebystate Electoral College vote that officially determines the U.S. presidency, the Kremlin said.

Governments and major corporations worldwide are scrambling to see if they, too, were victims of a global cyberespionage campaign that penetrated multiple U.S. government agencies and involved a common software product used by thousands of organizations.

The first COVID19 vaccines landed on Canadian soil on Sunday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, and some Canadians are expected to roll up their sleeves for a shot as soon as Monday.

France on Saturday called Zam's execution barbaric and unacceptable and said it ran counter to Iran's international obligations.