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A Republican political operative pardoned by President Donald Trump after his conviction in a 2012 bribery plot has been charged again with campaignrelated crimes, this time involving a 2016 illegal campaign contribution scheme and a Russian national.

Oklahoma scheduled its first executions Monday since the state put lethal injections on hold six years ago following a series of mishaps.

The pandemic has killed over four million people across the world.

Tests done on them last year revealed a close relative to the coronavirus that has killed more than 4.6 million people worldwide

Forces loyal to a powerful Libyan commander said two military planes crashed on Sunday in over a village in eastern Libya, killing at least two officers.

A woman who said her father, a former pastor of a Delaware church, sexually abused her as a child and trafficked her to other men, was awarded $1.5 million by a federal jury on Friday.

Former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who fought for independence from France in the 1950s and 1960s and was ousted amid prodemocracy protests in 2019 after 20 years in power, has died at age 84, state television announced Friday.

The 15-member council acted in a resolution passed unanimously on the UNAMA political mission.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Thursday criticized some in the judiciary for veering into the role of legislators and politicians, saying it is not the role of judges to make policy or to base decisions on their personal feelings or religious be...

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said a critical meeting on climate change later this year in Scotland is at risk of failure due to mistrust between developed and developing countries and a lack of ambitious goals among some emerging economies.

China had upgraded its notorious one-child policy to allow two kids per couple in 2015. Six years later, it has gone one step further and is asking couples to have three children.

Few Democrats were surprised to see Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom swat down a Republicandriven recall campaign in brightblue California. But they were pleased with how he did it.

Chinese tourists and their families killed or injured in a 2019 tour bus crash say in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the states design and maintenance failed to keep a remote highway safe.

Canadians voted in advanced polls in record numbers ahead of an upcoming election, some looking to beat crowds amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to data released this week, though an expected avalanche of mailin ballots has failed to materialize.

Wisconsin election clerks are reacting with a mixture of concern and confusion to the first inquiry made by a special investigator hired by Republicans to examine how the 2020 presidential election was run in the battleground state.

Comic Norm Macdonald, a former Saturday Night Live writer and performer who was Weekend Update host during the 1990s, has died.