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The death of an Illinois State Police trooper on a Chicago expressway has been ruled a suicide, the Cook County Medical Examiners office said Saturday.

The Taliban refer to their country as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and use a different flag.

The government said it also planned to announce a national vaccination week, with 170 mobile vaccination centres

Books about sex, LGBTQ issues and how to have a baby have public library employees in a deeply conservative Wyoming city facing possible prosecution after angry local residents complained to police that the material is obscene and doesn't belong in sectio...

Two Mexican museums have opened a massive show this week of 1,525 preHispanic and historical artifacts, more than half of which were recovered from abroad.

Former British prime minister David Cameron is being investigated for the second time this year by the lobbying regulator over whether he should have registered as a consultant lobbyist, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

Two weeks since boys in classes above the sixth grade were told to go back to school, the government says it is working on making it possible for girls to do the same.

Prosecutors say four dead men have been found in a stolen car in the city of Iguala, in the southern Mexico state of Guerrero.

North Korea says it has testfired an antiaircraft missile in the fourth round of weapons launch this month

Ecuador's penitentiary system said on Wednesday that the death toll from a prison riot that took place on Tuesday had risen to at least 100 and that authorities were still working to determine the full toll.

A judge on Wednesday finalized an outofcourt settlement between former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and a man who alleged that Hastert sexually abused him decades ago.

Acknowledging the limits of her own influence on the law as a member of the Supreme Court's liberal minority, Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday encouraged citizens to work to change laws they may disagree with, like a recent Texas law that limits acces...

Myron Dewey, a filmmaker and journalist who help draw worldwide attention to the concerns of Native Americans fighting an oil pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, has died.

George Frayne, who as leader of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airman enjoyed a cult following in the 1970s with such party and concert favorites as Hot Rod Lincoln and Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)," has died.

Sheriffs deputies punched a Black man in the face and torso so brutally while booking him into a north Louisiana jail two years ago that they broke his nose and left eye socket, civil libertarians said in challening Louisiana's oneyear statute of limitati...

A warning of fuel supply shortages by oil majors last week has led to panic buying in the UK.