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The revised Population and Family Planning Law, which allows Chinese couples to have three children, was passed by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress

The world's children cannot afford more empty promises at this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), youth activists including Greta Thunberg said, after a U.N. report found virtually no child will escape the impact of global warming.

The U.S. Treasury Department said on Thursday it had imposed sanctions on three Cuban officials it said were involved in the suppression of protests on the island that began on July 11.

A former University of Miami football player was arrested Thursday in connection with the 2006 fatal shooting of his teammate Bryan Pata.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Oregon resident and tribal citizen Charles F. Chuck Sams III to head the National Park Service.

In an escalating battle with Republican governors, President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered his Education secretary to explore possible legal action against states that have blocked school mask mandates and other public health measures meant to protect st...

A fourth business executive faces criminal charges stemming from a federal investigation into a failed multibilliondollar project to build two nuclear reactors in South Carolina, authorities announced Wednesday.

In 10 days, Taliban militants captured dozens of provincial capitals left vulnerable by the withdrawal of US and allied troops.

As stories of the horrors allegedly meted out on the distressed Afghan women trickled out, Indian feminists expressed serious concerns over their safety, security, dignity and human rights.

The embattled chair of the Minnesota Republican Party said Tuesday that she won't resign amid the uproar over the indictment of a major GOP donor and a college Republican chapter leader on sextrafficking charges.

As the new school year begins for Texas students and mask mandates are debated in various state courts, at least four school districts have already closed campuses due to COVID19 outbreaks.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Tuesday rescinded a 19th century proclamation that called for citizens to kill Native Americans and take their property, in what he hopes can begin to make amends for sins of the past.

An order by the Tennessee governor letting parents opt their children out of following mask rules at school has drawn defiance from officials in Memphis and Nashville, including a pledge Tuesday from Nashville's district attorney not to prosecute teachers...

Sean Penn is sort of done with movies.

The dean of the school of journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who led the effort to bring awardwinning journalist Nikole HannahJones to her faculty in the face of resistance from the school's trustees, announced Tuesday she is s...

Up to 47 people including three minors are missing and suspected to have died after their boat encountered engine trouble on the passage from Western Sahara to Spain's Canary Islands, the United Nations migration agency said on Tuesday.