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Britain has tasked naturalist David Attenborough with inspiring action to tackle the issue of climate change as its People’s Advocate ahead of the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference (COP26) in November in Glasgow, Scotland.

Counting commenced Sunday afternoon at a hotel in Richmond to tabulate the votes cast by tens of thousands of Virginia Republicans a day earlier in the party's nominating contest for governor and other statewide offices.

A Maryland man is being hailed as a hero for leaping off a bridge into a bay to save a 2yearold girl who had been ejected from a wrecked vehicle into the waters below.

To fight the pandemic at home, the United States gave its own vaccine manufacturers priority access to Americanmade materials needed to make the shots.

Police in suburban Dallas on Friday released video of officers fatally shooting a domestic violence suspect, showing him charging at officers with a club and box cutter and shouting, Shoot! Shoot!

The European Commission called on Friday on the United States and other major COVID19 vaccine producers to export what they make as the European Union does, rather than talk about waiving intellectual property rights to the shots.

China has urged United Nations member states not to attend an event planned next week by Germany, the United States and Britain on the repression of Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in Xinjiang, according to a note seen by Reuters on Friday. 

The head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in his first public comments on the war in the countrys Tigray region is sharply criticizing Ethiopias actions, saying he believes it's genocide: "They want to destroy the people of Tigray.

Large groups of police could be seen streaming into the favela as frightened residents tentatively went about their business once the gunfire died down.

A federal judge on Wednesday allowed former reality TV star Josh Duggar to be released as he awaits trial on charges that he downloaded and possessed child pornography.

A Brazilian judge on Wednesday suspended a police probe into a top Indigenous leader who had criticized the government of President Jair Bolsonaro for its handling of the COVID19 crisis, which has had a devastating impact on native peoples.

A former Venezuelan oil executive was sentenced to more than two years in prison for taking at least $12 million in bribes from businessmen who allegedly raided the coffers of the staterun oil company.

Federal prosecutors say Ghislaine Maxwell is not under suicide watch, but its still necessary to flash light into her cell every 15 minutes as she sleeps while she awaits a sex trafficking trial.

Florida authorities on Wednesday closed a criminal investigation into fundraising efforts by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to pay off the outstanding fines of thousands of the state's felons seeking to reclaim their voting rights, finding n...

Authorities have arrested a sex offender in the death of an Iranian exchange student who was attending the University of Nebraska at Omaha when she was killed in 1983.

Beijing, May 5 (AP) The largest section of the rocket that launched the main module of China's first permanent space station into orbit is expected to plunge back to Earth as early as Saturday at an unknown location. Usually, discarded rocket stages are...