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New protocols announced Wednesday by California Attorney General Rob Bonta seek to provide more transparency around one of the most emotional and disturbing areas of policing: the fatal shooting of an unarmed civilian.

A bankruptcy judge has set a July 29 hearing on the proposed $850 million settlement agreement the Boy Scouts of America have with attorneys representing some 60,000 victims of child sex abuse, giving insurance companies and others who oppose it more time...

When the University of North Carolina first declined to vote on granting tenure to journalist Nikole HannahJones, kicking off a protracted battle marked by allegations of racism and conservative backlash over her work examining the legacy of slavery, Blac...

A new pack of gray wolves has been identified in Northern California, becoming the third pack to establish itself in the state in the last century, state wildlife officials and conservationists said.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the commander said there were no reports of casualties in the attack.

A delegation of five U.S. senators wound up two days of talks Tuesday with Mexican officials on migration and crossborder issues.

The bodies of two young sisters pulled from the rubble of a Florida condo building so tiny that the 4 and 10yearolds were placed in the same casket were buried alongside their parents Tuesday, their white coffin draped with innocent pink and purple ribb...

The Los Angeles police officer who shared a photo of George Floyd with the words you take my breath away in a Valentinelike format has been cleared of wrongdoing and will not face any punishment.

Zimbabwe has returned to strict lockdown measures to combat a resurgence of COVID19 amid vaccine shortages, the countrys information minister announced Tuesday.

The priest, who campaigned for marginalised tribal communities, was arrested last year for allegedly inciting violence between different Indian castes in 2018.

Mohammad Suhail Shaheen said that India should not back a foreign-installed government in Kabul that is killing its own people to stay in power.

The torrential rains and landslides are a reminder of the natural disasters - including earthquakes, volcano eruptions and tsunami - that haunt Japan, where the capital Tokyo is to host the summer Olympics beginning this month.

The man who killed five people at a Maryland newspaper is autistic and has persecutory, delusional beliefs," a trial defense expert testified Friday but a prosecutor criticized the doctor's findings, saying a report featured an error, omitted details and...

U.N.sponsored talks aimed at paving the way for elections in Libya in late December failed to find common ground, the deputy of the United Nations mission in Libya said on Friday night after weeklong talks near Geneva.

Lukashenko on Friday ordered the full closure of the country's border with Ukraine, seeking to block what he called an inflow of weapons to coup-plotters detected by his security services.

The United Nations said on Friday conflict could rapidly flare again in Ethiopia's Tigray and that famine was worsening in the region, where local fighters declared victory this week after an eightmonth war with central government and allied forces.