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Local health officials gave a headsup to a California chicken processing plant about a state inspection during the largest known COVID19 workplace outbreak in Fresno County, The Fresno Bee reported, citing emails obtained through the Public Records Act.

US-led diplomacy on North Korea's nuclear program remains stalemated for about two years

Masked officers who said they belonged to a disgruntled sector of the Haitian police force known as Fantom 509 stormed several police stations in PortauPrince on Wednesday, freeing jailed comrades accused of participating in an alleged coup against embatt...

Investigators asked Cohen about individuals involved in the appraisal of the estate and benefits derived from its valuation, including a $21 million income tax deduction.

Attorneys in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyds death are wrangling over not just the 12 jurors who will decide the verdict but also two alternates.

Russian President Vladimir Putin likely directed efforts to try to swing the 2020 U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump, according to an American intelligence report released on Tuesday that sources said would likely trigger U.S. sanctions on Moscow.

Georgia's failure to open mass vaccination sites earlier and relatively slow expansion of eligibility for the shots are to blame in part for the state's dismal COVID19 inoculation rate, health experts say.

Potential jurors in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer accused in George Floyd's death have been asked many predictable questions. Attorneys from both sides have asked how they feel about the Black Lives Matter movement, and about police. Th...

Coronavirus infections are rising exponentially in Germany, an expert at the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases said on Tuesday, putting at risk plans to lift the lockdown and revive the economy.

A Florida man spat on a security officer at Walt Disney World after she asked him to put on a mask, according to an arrest report released Monday.

Portugals Constitutional Court on Monday blocked a law passed by parliament introducing euthanasia and physicianassisted suicide for terminally ill and gravely injured people.

British Airways's new boss said vaccinated people should be allowed to travel without restriction and nonvaccinated people with a negative COVID19 test, as he set out his ideas for a travel restart a month before the UK government finalises its plans.

North Carolina's highest court ruled Friday that a woman must get a new trial in her husband's 2015 beating death and granted the same to her father, agreeing evidence had been wrongly excluded that weakened their ability to argue they acted in selfdefens...

The head of Israel's renowned ZAKA rescue service stepped down from his post on Friday and relinquished a prestigious national prize amid sexual assault allegations dating back to the 1980s.

Biden, who was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on January 20, has created history by appointing at least 58 Indian Americans to key positions in his administration.

A former Missouri jail guard has been convicted of convincing her terminally ill father to fatally shoot her estranged husband with whom she was embroiled in a custody dispute before killing himself so it appeared to be a murdersuicide, prosecutors said T...