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San Francisco officials on Tuesday approved a task force that will study financial compensation, community programs and other ways to make reparations to the descendants of slaves, becoming the largest city to take such a step.

Former Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta said Tuesday that President Jair Bolsonaro had considered issuing a decree officially expanding the use of the antimalarial drug chloroquine for COVID19 patients in Brazil, though studies found it ineffective.

Mexico will punish those responsible for an overpass collapse that killed at least 24 people and injured dozens when a train on Mexico City's newest metro line plunged onto a busy road below, the government said on Tuesday.

A man announced his intent before driving his pickup truck onto a grassy median on Chicagos North Side and striking two people in a group he labeled yuppies with dogs, Cook County prosecutors said Monday.

A man accusing Oscarwinning actor Kevin Spacey of sexually abusing him in the 1980s when he was 14 cannot proceed anonymously in court, a judge ruled Monday.

Police in North Carolina are searching for a gunman who shot and killed a homeless man's dog in front of him.

Utah Republicans booed Sen. Mitt Romney but ultimately rejected a motion to censure him Saturday for his votes at President Donald Trumps impeachment trials.

Hundreds of day trippers packed out the walkway along the top of the Great Wall at Badaling, some 60 kilometres (37 miles) from downtown Beijing, with many not wearing masks.

A candidate for President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obradors Morena is running for mayor of a cartelplagued city in southern Mexico despite the fact he apparently has an outstanding drug charge in the United States.

The afternoon-admission gig at a warehouse in Liverpool is one of a series of pilot events sponsored by the UK government.

A day earlier, senators Elizabeth Warren, Edward J Markey, Christopher Murphy etc wrote a letter to major vaccine producers as well.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday postponed planned parliamentary elections amid a dispute over voting in Israeliannexed East Jerusalem and splits in his Fatah party.

A federal grand jury has indicted a former Louisiana police officer of injuring an arrested man by a number of means, including punching him, pistolwhipping him and slamming his head to the ground.

The US embassy in India said that American citizens must take advantage of commercial flights to leave the country.

New Zealand Rugby will move ahead with a plan to sell a 12.5 percent stake in its commercial rights, mainly the All Blacks, to American investors after winning the support of provinces at its annual meeting Thursday.

Rapper Kodak Black was sentenced to probation Wednesday for assaulting a teenage girl in a South Carolina hotel room.