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U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday held his first phone call with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas since taking office, amid heavy fighting between Israel and Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip.

Prince Harry compared his royal experience to being on The Truman Show and living in a zoo.

A security meeting between Mexican and U.S. officials on Thursday stressed attacking drug cartels business interests, the guns they use and the addictions they profit from.

Locked out Metropolitan Opera stagehands protested the use of nonunion shops to construct sets for the company's upcoming season, attracting a crowd of roughly 1,000 people outside Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Thursday.

The United States objected to a public U.N. Security Council discussion on Friday of worsening violence between Israel and Palestinian militants, but U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken left the door open to a meeting early next week.

At least 11 suspected drug dealers face charges in Southern California that they sold fentanyl and other opioids that led to overdose deaths, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals on Wednesday threw out part of a womans shoplifting sentence that required she tell the management of any store she entered that she was on supervision for the offense.

Legislation adding a firing squad to South Carolina's execution methods amid a lack of lethalinjection drugs is headed to the desk of Gov. Henry McMaster.

National and state Democratic officials have reached a joint fundraising deal to increase aid to state parties, with an extra boost for those in Republicandominated states.

A state prosecutor told the Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday that a man who was 19 when he participated in a double murder in 1993 shouldn't be able to claim his life sentence was unfair because he was armed and aware of the plot to kidnap and punish riv...

Ukraine has charged indicted a top opposition figure who is a close ally of Russia's president with treason and attempts to steal natural resources from Russiaannexed Crimea.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer threatened Tuesday to go after Enbridge's profits from a Great Lakes oil pipeline if the company defies her order to shut it down.

Illegal gold miners inside the Yanomami reservation in northern Brazil on Monday opened fire with automatic weapons on an indigenous community that has opposed their entry by river, a Yanomami leader said.

The United States recently declared that the treatment of Uyghurs is "genocide."

The father of a Cambridge, Massachusetts, elementary school student said Monday he was shocked when he pulled two activity booklets from his sons backpack that had been distributed at his school, including one titled: Natural Gas: Your Invisible Friend.

Washington, D.C., is emerging from its pandemic quarantine.