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Civil rights groups on Friday filed to block Colorado's new congressional map, arguing the independent redistricting commission that redrew the state's legislative boundaries to match its population growth shortchanged Hispanic residents.

A case of Ebola has been confirmed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to an internal report on Friday from the national biomedical laboratory, five months after the end of the most recent flareup there of the deadly virus.

Syrian air defenses responded on Friday night to missiles flying over the country's central province of Homs, the Syrian state news agency reported. Details were scarce and there was no confirmation of any casualties or damage in the development.

Ardem Patapoutian and David Julius received the Nobel for medicine on Monday

A TV adaptation of the late Sue Grafton's millionselling Kinsey Millhone mystery novels, a prospect the author once swore she would return from the dead to prevent, is now the works.

Newly released video that shows Minneapolis police officers talking about hunting people during unrest following the death of George Floyd has become an issue in the upcoming citywide election as Mayor Jacob Frey seeks a second term and residents decide i...

Abortions in Texas can resume under a federal judges ruling late Wednesday, but for how long? A conservative federal appeals court, and ultimately the Supreme Court, might take a more skeptical look at the Biden administrations lawsuit over Texas sixweek...

A former Taliban commander has been charged with killing U.S. troops in 2008, the U.S. Department of Justice said, adding that a federal grand jury in New York unsealed the indictment on Thursday.

Thirteen years after Vermont lost the ignominious distinction of being the only state in the continental United States without any breeding pairs of bald eagles, the state is moving to remove the iconic national symbol from its list of threatened and enda...

The Indonesian parliament will vote on Thursday on whether to back the government's proposals for one of the country's most ambitious tax overhauls, including raising the VAT rate, a new carbon tax and cancelling a planned corporate tax cut.

Two Black Democratic state legislators are accusing Virginia's Republican party of racism for sending out flyers with drawings showing them hoisted in the air by handheld strings a depiction the party used to portray them as puppets of liberal Democrats...

An Alaska man faces federal charges after authorities allege he threatened to hire an assassin to kill U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday.

A county governing board in North Carolina has formally apologized for the mob lynching of a Black boy unlawfully taken from a jail in 1921, saying it suspected some prominent local officials allowed the killing to take place.

Islamist militants killed at least nine soldiers and wounded at least 11 more in central Mali on Wednesday, the army said, while local officials said the death toll was even higher.

The United States and China reached an agreement in principle for U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to hold a virtual meeting before the end of the year, a senior U.S. administration official said on Wednesday.

Around 200 indigenous Peruvians have taken over the facilities of a pipeline station of Petroperu, the stateowned company said on Tuesday, as part of a protest by Amazon native groups demanding better economic and social support in the area.