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A Texas council on Tuesday rescinded action that would have allowed social workers to turn away clients on the basis of their disability, sexual orientation or gender identity.

A growing number of GOP leaders in Kansas are calling for the resignation of three elected officials who were recorded planning a coverup of their role in a plot to smear the Democratic mayor of the state's largest city.

Two conservative operatives facing criminal charges in Michigan were indicted in Cleveland on Tuesday for organizing tens of thousands of hoax robocalls made to predominantly Black Midwestern cities that falsely warned people information gleaned from th...

The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is using her Facebook page to amplify unsubstantiated claims of corruption by Joe Biden.

The number of performers at Milans famed La Scala opera house who have tested positive for the coronavirus has risen to 21, even as the theater was forced to close due to new government restrictions aimed at curbing the virus resurgence.

Gunmen shot dead a Houthi official in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday, a rare killing of a civilian administrator in the city controlled by the armed movement.

Hong Kong police on Tuesday detained three people under the city's contentious national security law on suspicion of publishing content to incite others to secede from China.

The small, brick post office in Mission, South Dakota, sees steady business most days as people wait outside to allow one family at a time to check for mail at one of just four such depots scattered across the Rosebud Indian Reservation.

Hong Kong will reopen public beaches and increase the number of people allowed to sit together in bars and restaurants starting Friday as the city continues to unwind strict COVID19 rules put in place in July.

A Bolivian judge annulled on Monday an arrest warrant for exiled former president Evo Morales, clearing the way for him to return to his home country without facing the risk of detention.

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi is hopeful that congressional Democrats and the Trump administration can reach agreement on a coronavirus relief bill before the Nov. 3 elections, her spokesman said on Monday, adding that major issues st...

Storm Zeta strengthened into a hurricane on Monday and churned towards beach resorts on Mexico's Caribbean coast, which it is expected to rake with strong winds and heavy rain before heading towards oilproducing areas of the southern United States.

A federal judge on Monday threw out a lawsuit in which a Muslim civil rights group sought to block the state of Maryland from enforcing its ban on contracting with businesses that boycott Israel.

Several Fox News Channel onair personalities were exposed last week to someone on a private plane who later tested positive for COVID19, leading the network to take extra precautions this week.

Two civil rights organizations are suing the New York Police Department on behalf of protesters who say they were roughed up by officers because they expressed antipolice views during nightly demonstrations in the spring in the wake of George Floyds killi...

Police video of a suburban Chicago police officer's fatal shooting of a Black man and the wounding of a Black woman as the couple were inside a vehicle is expected to be released once relatives view that video, the mayor of the city where the shooting occ...