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The postal service isnt the only staid federal agency to be drawn into a political battle in 2020.

Abe, the longest-serving prime minister of Japan, had announced on Friday that he was stepping down because a chronic health problem.

Turkey said it will hold a military exercise off northwest Cyprus for the next two weeks, amid growing tension with Greece over disputed claims to exploration rights in the east Mediterranean.

The decision comes even though smoking is considered a sin in the mostly Buddhist country, where a tobacco control law was first passed in 1729 and the plant is believed to have grown from the blood of a demoness.

Thousands of people took to the streets on Saturday in Russia's far eastern city of Khabarovsk to protest against President Vladimir Putin's handling of a regional political crisis and the suspected poisoning of his most vocal critic.

Australia's Victoria state on Saturday reported its lowest rise in new coronavirus cases in almost two months, but authorities warned there would be no rush to lift social distancing restrictions.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reported 233 more confirmed cases of COVID19 at one of its facilities in Arizona.

The 20foot high "unsurvivable" wall of water Hurricane Laura was forecast to send onto the Louisiana coast showed up despite widespread reports of a lower peak, authorities said on Friday, rejecting criticism that they had raised too much alarm.

Libyas Tripolibased government has suspended its interior minister following a shooting at a demonstration in the capital earlier this week, the United Nationssupported government said Friday.

A state judge's ruling allowing a referendum the use of ranked choice voting in presidential elections in Maine isn't going without a challenge.

The Carter Center, an organization founded by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, has worked for decades to ensure fair elections in Africa, Latin America and Asia.

The U.N. refugee agency called Friday for an investigation into reports that people seeking shelter in Greece were returned to Turkey in possible violation of international law.

TikTok celebrities Bryce Hall and Blake Gray are facing criminal charges after they hosted recent parties in the Hollywood Hills despite the city's ban on large gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic, authorities said Friday.

The baby dolphin rolled over on its side, floating on the surface. Its mother repeatedly nudged its head above the oily waves in a lagoon in Mauritius, where environmentalists are demanding an investigation into the deaths of dozens of dolphins following...

Republican Senator Rand Paul on Friday called on the FBI to investigate a crowd of protesters that swarmed him as he departed the White House after listening to U.S. President Donald Trump accept his party's nomination for reelection.

When my birthday rolled around in June, I had to face the fact that, thanks to COVID19, I would not be having cake with anyone. Yet I went ahead and made the cake I really wanted a threelayer, naked strawberry chamomile cake.