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The Trump administration is moving to restrict what land and water areas can be declared as habitat for imperiled plants and animals potentially excluding locations that species could use in the future as climate change upends ecosystems.

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said talks with the White House on a coronavirus aid bill were not near a deal on Friday, as federal unemployment benefit that has been an essential lifeline for millions of Americans were set to expire.

Committee Chairman Eliot Engel said Friday he had issued the subpoena as part an investigation into Pompeo's apparent use of Department of State resources to advance a political smear of former Vice President Joe Biden.

Aman Vyas was convicted of the rape and murder of Michelle Samaraweera and the rape of three other women, offences which took place at locations across Walthamstow in north east London between March 2009 and May 2009.

Workers hauling more than 400 truckloads of fairground rides and equipment halted traffic for hours in Brussels on Friday, honking to protest a ban on a huge summer fair that has been barred from opening amid a spike in COVID19 infections.

When coronavirus patients started arriving at South Africa's governmentrun Thelle Mogoerane Hospital, workers scrambled to set up isolation wards to treat them.

Ford Motor Co. posted results on Thursday that were not as grim as expected for its second quarter that saw its U.S. factories shuttered for half the period to combat the spread of the coronavirus and car buyers sheltering in place.

Instead of a whistle dangling from his neck, Browns coach Kevin Stefanski wears a sensor that blinks and beeps whenever he's within 6 feet of someone in the team's facility.

The New York Jets placed quarterback Joe Flacco, linebacker Avery Williamson and tight end Ryan Griffin on the physically unable to perform list Thursday.

The day before he became the newest member of the Seattle Seahawks, it was apparent to those around Jamal Adams that the AllPro safety was stressed.

Defending champion Brooks Koepka matched his career best with an 8under 62 on Thursday to take a onestroke lead over Rickie Fowler in the FedEx St. Jude Invitational.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted on Thursday the "tide is turning" in dealings with China, citing international support for Washington's policies even as he expressed "dismay" at the number of countries supporting Beijing's new security law fo...

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday agreed to rehear arguments over whether the judge assigned to the criminal case against Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, must grant a request to dismiss it.

Belarusian opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanouskaya on Thursday denied allegations that she or her jailed husband had ties to an alleged plot by Russian mercenaries to destabilise Belarus ahead of a presidential election.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's wife and one of his ministers have tested positive for COVID19, according to an official statement on Thursday, as the spread of the novel coronavirus showed no signs of slowing in the country with the world's secondwo...

Nigerian Iyke Anakua had been working for 14 months as a welder, a job he got through a recruitment agency in Berlin, when he received news in midMarch that he would be made redundant.