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The first known U.S. case was a fully vaccinated person in California who returned to the United States from South Africa on November 22.

A woman found dead in her garage was the mother of the knifewielding man fatally shot by police at the home over the weekend, Maryland officials said.

Leaders in the Black community of Virginia Beach called Wednesday for a federal investigation into the fatal police shooting of a Black man, saying his right to carry a gun for protection was ignored during a night of violence earlier this year on the cit...

The Mexican and U.S. international development agencies will work together on a project in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador aimed at alleviating the root causes of migration, Mexico's foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat and leading voting rights activist, said Wednesday that she will launch another campaign to become the nation's first Black woman governor.

It was the second round of talks between the two sides in Qatar since the US ended its 20-year occupation of Afghanistan and the hardline Islamists rapidly returned to power.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who ordered the review in February, said the findings were "appalling" and "disturbing."

A federal appeals court on Tuesday directed the Justice Department to disclose certain redacted passages from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation report that relate to individuals who were investigated by prosecutors but not ultimately c...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has decided that National Guard members who refuse COVID19 vaccination will be barred from federally funded drills and training required to maintain their Guard status.

In South Africa -- where the Omicron variant was first sequenced -- only a quarter of the population has been vaccinated. And is one of the highest inoculation rates on the continent.

The twists, turns and oddities of the legal saga surrounding Jussie Smolletts claim in 2019 that he was the target of a racist and homophobic attack in Chicago have culminated in an actual trial, which enters its first full day of testimony Tuesday.

Andersson grudgingly said she would still be able to govern with that budget, but the Green Party said it could not accept a budget drafted by the far-right and quit the government.

As Barbados prepares to form a republic and remove the British queen as its sovereign, some residents in the capital Bridgetown on Sunday acknowledged they remained confused about what the change means and how it will affect them.

A South African doctor who was one of the first to suspect a different coronavirus strain among patients said on Sunday that symptoms of the Omicron variant were so far mild and could be treated at home.

Extortion of avocado growers in western Mexico has gotten so bad that 500 vigilantes from a socalled selfdefense group known as United Towns, or Pueblos Unidos, gathered Saturday and pledged to aid police.

The new heavily mutated Covid-19 spreads quickly and causes severe disease or decrease the effectiveness of vaccines or treatments.