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The judge who oversaw Derek Chauvins trial in George Floyd s death said the jury would remain anonymous until he deemed it safe to release their names, in an effort to not just protect the 12 jurors from outside influence but also to preserve Chauvins rig...

A man opened fire at a convenience store in Pennsylvania early Wednesday, apparently at random, killing a truck driver who was pumping gas and wounding another man before taking his own life, officials said.

The shooting occurred at a tense time with growing outrage against racial injustice and police brutality in the United States, and set off protests in the city of Columbus.

Talks between Iran and world powers in Vienna to save a 2015 nuclear accord have been positive, but a long road remains ahead, U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Tuesday.

The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday it had reached a deal to supply food to Venezuelan schools, as WFP director David Beasley visits Caracas for meetings with officials including President Nicolas Maduro.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday called on American diplomats around the world to challenge nations whose actions set back efforts to address climate change, according to prepared remarks.

Employees of the two main U.S. immigration enforcement agencies were directed Monday to stop referring to migrants as aliens, a dated term that many people consider offensive.

Canada will invest up to C$30 billion ($23.9 billion) over five years to set up a longpromised national childcare program and help female employment recover from harm done by the COVID19 pandemic, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Monday.

Iran and world powers have made some progress on how to revive the 2015 nuclear accord later abandoned by the United States, and an interim deal could be a way to gain time for a lasting settlement, Iranian officials said on Monday.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday the government has made a second payment to the World Health Organization's (WHO) COVAX initiative to access around 11 million COVID19 vaccines.

Authorities in Minnesota say they're investigating an officerinvolved shooting in the Minneapolis suburb of Burnsville.

Protesters who smashed windows, burglarized businesses and set fires during demonstrations in Portland, Oregon, caused significant damage, and authorities urged downtown businesses to review security video to help police apprehend more rioters.

The former chief medical examiner for Maryland who testified on behalf of Officer Derek Chauvin in the George Floyd murder trial is a defendant in a federal lawsuit over the death of a man who died under circumstances similar to Floyd.

On Monday, attorneys on both sides will seek to drive home their cases in closing arguments that cover much of the same ground, seeking to tie their evidence into neat packages for jurors.

A jury recommended on Friday that a Kansas City man receive the maximum sentence for killing two women nearly a decade apart and leaving their bodies in the same field.

Despite the strong gains cited by Biden, there are still 8.4 million fewer jobs than before the pandemic, nearly as many jobs as were lost in the 2008-2009 Great Recession.