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What started as a few public comments from former first lady Michelle Obama has resulted in a new permanent public display in Lafayette Park that details the role of enslaved people in building the White House.

During emotional, tense and sometimes angry testimony Tuesday, four police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 vividly recalled the violence they endured while fighting against a mob of Donald Trump's supporters.

Globally renowned for its natural beauty, Rio de Janeiro received a new international distinction Tuesday as UNESCO added landscape architect Roberto Burle Marxs former home to its list of World Heritage sites.

Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said, and residents said there were no disturbances at the time.

A Maryland man was sentenced Tuesday to seven months in federal prison for making death threats against U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris when they were candidates during the 2020 campaign.

A millionaire businessman in Louisiana has pleaded guilty to having his estranged wife abducted in a scheme that ended when the suspected kidnappers drowned while trying to flee from an officer who saw them driving down an interstate shoulder.

A former CIA software engineer can represent himself at his upcoming retrial on espionage charges, a judge said Monday.

A white former police officer in Mississippi will accept a life sentence in the 2019 shooting death of a Black woman with whom he was allegedly having a romantic relationship, a newspaper report said Monday.

Two adults, a child and a fetus died in a headon crash that occurred shortly after a Georgia ambulance crew knocked on the window of a stopped pickup truck to wake a driver slumped over the wheel, police said.

The Republican head of the Wisconsin Assembly elections committee said Monday she will ensure there is a comprehensive, forensic examination of ballots cast in the 2020 presidential election at the same time the state's nonpartisan audit bureau conducts a...

Norway's Kristian Blummenfelt delivered a devastating late surge to break clear on a sweltering run and take the gold medal in the men's Olympic triathlon on Monday.

Dubai also had to conjure up rainfall for itself. Using a new method of cloud seeding in which they charge clouds with electricity.

A U.S. Justice Department program aimed at protecting American technology from China dropped five prosecutions of Chinese scientists after a draft of an internal FBI analysis questioned a main premise for the investigations, according to court documents.

Guatemala's attorney general on Friday removed the country's internationally known graft prosecutor from his post as head of the anticorruption unit.

A woman who was with a St. Paul man when he was shot and killed in Minneapolis by members of a U.S. Marshals Service task force last month is suing, claiming she was emotionally traumatized and her civil rights were violated, her lawyers said Friday.

Palestinian health officials on Friday said a 17yearold youth was shot and killed by Israeli troops during a clash in the occupied West Bank.