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Dr. Deborah Birx, who coordinated the White House coronavirus task force under President Donald Trump, believes the COVID19 death toll in the United States would have been substantially lower if the government had responded more effectively.

The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday to renew the mandate of U.N. experts monitoring sanctions against North Korea hours after members met to discuss Pyongyangs latest test firings of banned ballistic missiles.

A state appeals court on Thursday upheld the New York Police Departments decision to fire an officer for the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner.

Protesters calling for the resignation of Belarus authoritarian president marched in small groups Thursday throughout the capital of Minsk, the first sizable turnout of demonstrators since weeks of protest rocked the country last year.

The white headmaster of a New York Catholic school who made a Black student kneel as part of an apology to a teacher has resigned, the school said Wednesday.

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted to approve President Joe Biden's choice of Rachel Levine to become assistant U.S. health secretary, the first openly transgender person to be confirmed by the chamber.

Voting mostly along party lines, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed former Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be the nations assistant secretary of health. She is the first openly transgender federal official to win Senate confirmation.

The U.N. human rights office said on Wednesday it confirmed the accuracy of remarks by independent U.N. expert Agnes Callamard in The Guardian alleging a senior Saudi official had made a threat against her.

For Teri Leiker, 51, the King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, was a happy place. She worked there for some 30 years and was dating a colleague.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tweeted that President Biden had been briefed on the shooting.

A Tennesseebased online retailer accused of illegally selling ammunition to a student who fatally shot 10 people at a Texas high school in 2018 wont be dismissed from a lawsuit filed by families of those killed and injured, a judge has ruled.

Floridas famed South Beach is desperately seeking a new image.

Uganda said late on Monday it had detained an American national for involvement in subversive activities amid a deadly crackdown against opponents of longtime President Yoweri Museveni that has drawn growing international censure.

The Russian foreign ministry said one more opportunity has been passed up to look for a way out of the dead end in Russia-US ties.

Canadian diplomats were refused access to Spavor's trial and have been told both hearings would be held behind closed doors.

Italys top diplomat on Sunday became the most senior western official to travel to Libya after an interim government took power in the North African County.