Democrats launched their investigation into the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Tuesday with a focus on the law enforcement officers who were attacked and beaten as the rioters broke...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reversed course on its recommendations around mask-wearing and now says that in areas of high COVID-19 transmission rates, even fully vaccinate...

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike on Wednesday urged younger people to cooperate with measures to bring down the high number of infections and get vaccinated, saying their activities are key to slowing the...

Tokyo has reported its highest number of new coronavirus infections, four days after the start of the Olympics.

An explosion at an industrial park for chemical companies in Germany killed at least one person Tuesday, with 31 others injured and four missing. Fire officials who tested the air said there did not a...

An increasing number of migrants and asylum seekers have been crossing irregularly from Belarus into Lithuania, but Lithuania says this is a “hybrid attack” and not a refugee crisis. Most are Iraq...

A Georgia man was sentenced to four counts of life without parole in Cherokee County on Tuesday, for the first four of the shooting deaths that left eight people dead at three Atlanta-area massage bus...

Moderna is in talks with U.S. regulators to expand the size of an ongoing trial testing its COVID-19 vaccines in children aged between 5 and 11, the drugmaker said on Monday.

Olympic hosts spend years preparing for the Games, along with billions of dollars and a lot of political capital en route to the finish line. But still, many cities want to host the event. ...

A trial opened in Vatican City on Tuesday for 10 defendants, including a once-powerful cardinal, in a case based on a sprawling investigation of the allegedly criminal management of the Holy See's por...

Russian authorities have restricted access to the website of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny and to dozens of sites run by his close allies, Navalny's team said Monday.

A lawyer for Britney Spears has asked a Los Angeles court to remove her father as conservator of her roughly $60-million estate following the pop singer's allegations that he had used the arrangement...

Troops surrounded Tunisia's parliament and blocked its Speaker from entering on Monday after the president suspended the legislature and fired the prime minister following nationwide protests over the...

The World Bank and the COVAX global vaccine distribution program unveiled on Monday a financing mechanism to speed the supply of doses to developing countries, where COVID-19 inoculation rates lag far...

California and New York City announced Monday that they would require all government employees to get the coronavirus vaccine or face weekly COVID-19 testing as officials raced to beat back a summer s...

U.S. pop singer Pink has offered to pay a fine handed out to the Norwegian female beach handball team for wearing shorts instead of the required bikini bottoms at the European Beach Handball Champions...

When it comes to residential schools, the U.S. and Canada share a disturbing history. In fact, their assimilation systems were developed in tandem. Now some Americans, disturbed by news from Canada of...

Federal prosecutors in R. Kelly's sex trafficking case say he had sexual contact with an underage boy in addition to girls, and the government wants jurors in his upcoming sex trafficking trial to hea...

Thailand reported a record number of coronavirus cases on Monday, while Malaysia has notched up more than one million infections, as the virulent delta variant carves a deadly path through Southeast A...

Moses worked to dismantle segregation as the Mississippi field director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the civil rights movement and was central to the 1964 "Freedom Summer," ...