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Rio Tinto chief executive JeanSebastien Jacques will lose around $3.5 million in bonuses due to the destruction of Australian indigenous sacred sites to access iron ore, the mining company said on Monday.

Some Houston residents say they endured difficult, often hazardous living conditions while waiting months, even years for help from the city to fix flooddamaged homes after Hurricane Harvey.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the nation's longest serving premier, visited a Tokyo hospital on Monday as concerns deepened about his ability to continue in his post due to health issues and fatigue from handling the coronavirus crisis.

South Korea counted its 11th straight day of tripledigit daily jumps in coronavirus cases Monday after social distancing restrictions were tightened nationwide.

The gunman who killed 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand's worst mass shooting faces a life prison term, possibly without parole, after multiday sentencing hearings that started on Monday.

Lea Michele is a mom of a baby boy.

More than 50,000 Lithuanians joined hands Sunday in a human chain stretching 32 kilometers (20 miles) from the capital of Vilinus to the Belarus border to express solidarity with their neighbor's dramatic struggle for democracy.

A Connecticut town's officials are showing comedian John Oliver what they think about his expletivefilled rant about their city they're naming the local sewage treatment plant after him.

Guterres said the right to freedom of religion or belief is firmly trenched in international human rights law and is a cornerstone for inclusive, prosperous and peaceful societies.

Kamala Harris made history last week by becoming the first Black woman to be nominated to run for vice president on a major partys ticket. But the first Black woman to run for vice president in the nations history was trailblazing newspaperwoman Charlotta...

Monday marks one year since 23yearold Elijah McClain was stopped by police in the Denver suburb of Aurora. He was arrested, put into a choke hold and given 500 milligrams of ketamine as a sedative. Less than a week later he was dead. Following nationwide...

Opera legend Plcido Domingo denied ever abusing his power during his management tenure at two U.S. opera houses in an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday, as he embarks on a fullthrottle campaign to clear his name after two investigations found...

A group of survivors from the 2018 Florida high school massacre is hitting the road to help register young voters across the country before the November election, seeking to bring about their vision for gun reform.

Demonstrators donning helmets and shields clashed with police late Saturday in Denver, prompting officers to arrest at least nine people.

Tropical Storm Marco is swirling over the Gulf of Mexico heading for a possible hit on the Louisiana coast as a hurricane, while Tropical Storm Laura knocked utilities out as it battered Hispaniola early Sunday, following a track forecast to take it to th...

Indias coronavirus caseload topped 3 million on Sunday, with the country leading the world in new infections as the disease marched through impoverished rural areas in the north and the wealthier but older populations of the south.