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Experts from Europe's leading human rights body said Friday that they have held constructive talks with Polish authorities on a landmark treaty aimed at protecting women and girls from violence.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and his Democratic challenger are set to meet in their first facetoface matchup, amid recordbreaking fundraising and a Supreme Court nomination debate that means Graham will be spending much of the remaining campaign in Washington...

The Supreme Court said Friday it will review a 2016 Arizona law that bars anyone but a family member or caregiver from returning another persons early ballot. The law itself, however, remains in effect through the presidential election and until the justi...

A federal judge is ordering the Census Bureau to text every 2020 census worker by Friday, letting them know the head count of every U.S. resident is continuing through the end of the month and not ending next week, as the agency previously had announced i...

From escapism at the disco, to resistance and aggression, even to pondering the importance of the postal service while working from home, designers in Paris have presented divergent creative responses to the global health crisis as springsummer shows cont...

Five North Carolina police officers have resigned amid accusations they failed to seek immediate medical attention for a Black man who died after fatally ingesting drugs before being taken into custody, officials announced.

Madrid's regional government has appealed against a national order that requires a partial lockdown of the Spanish capital just hours before a Friday night deadline for enacting the restrictions in the European coronavirus hot spot.

There is some evidence that a recent sharp rise in new COVID19 cases in England is levelling off, Britain's Office for National Statistics said on Friday, adding it was too early to know for sure.

The widow of a Germanborn rapper who joined the Islamic State extremist group in Syria and was killed in an airstrike was herself convicted Friday of membership in a terrorist organization.

Cesar Hernandez says he has made thousands of phone calls since June urging Latinos in the battleground state of Wisconsin to support Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

Danielle Fairbank closed the tailgate of her fireengine red pickup truck in a Target parking lot in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and offered a hearty Fake news!" to dismiss reports that President Donald Trump paid only $750 in income taxes in 2017.

Travellers arriving in England and Scotland from Turkey and Poland will have to selfisolate for 14 days from early on Saturday, officials said as they expanded their COVID19 quarantine lists.

An attorney for one of four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd on Thursday reiterated his request for the trial to be moved, saying the defendants and lawyers were harassed and threatened by protesters after a Septembe...

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin remained far from agreement on COVID19 relief in several key areas on Thursday, after a phone discussion failed to bridge what Pelosi described as differences over dollars and values.

A U.S. government report published Thursday found that the Federal Emergency Management Agency mismanaged the distribution of goods in Puerto Rico after hurricanes Irma and Maria, leading to delays in the delivery of food and water.