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Gordon Wood has engaged in many debates during his long and celebrated career, but rarely had he been confronted so starkly as by fellow scholar Woody Holton last weekend at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

The White House said Biden will lay out a compromise outline of legislation pouring $1.75 trillion into education, childcare, clean energy and other social services.

Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said arrivals from a handful of tiny Pacific island states would be granted quarantine-free travel from next month.

A New York judge on Wednesday refused to pause a vaccine mandate set to take effect Friday for the citys municipal workforce, denying a police unions request for a temporarily restraining order.

The three abandoned brothers were thin, malnourished and hungry, living alone for months with no blankets to keep them warm inside an unfurnished Houston area apartment with soiled carpet, flies and roaches. The trio were barely surviving, abandoned and s...

Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso on Wednesday called for dialogue following a second day of demonstrations by indigenous and civil society groups against gasoline price rises, and said his government would keep security forces on highways to maintain o...

Billionaires need to "step up now, on a one-time basis", said David Beasley, director of the United Nation's World Food Program.

The last firefighter injured in a Dallas apartment blast last month is out of the hospital, a spokesman said Tuesday.

The death of a child whose skeletal remains were found inside a Houstonarea apartment along with three surviving siblings who appear to have been abandoned has been ruled a homicide, officials said Tuesday.

Islamic State militants killed 11 people including a woman on Tuesday in an attack on a village in Diyala province, east of Iraq, the country's Joint Operations Command said in a statement.

In the fall of 1976, Carolyn Sanders received an exciting postcard from her brother.

The United States and China are stepping up their war of words over Taiwan in a longsimmering dispute that has significant implications for the power dynamic in the IndoPacific and beyond.

Democratic Republic of Congo's constitutional court on Tuesday swore in an electoral commission chief whose contested nomination threatens to weaken President Felix Tshisekedi's ruling coalition.

Democratic Republic of Congo's constitutional court on Tuesday swore in an electoral commission chief whose contested nomination threatens to weaken President Felix Tshisekedi's ruling coalition.

The judge who oversaw the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin said Monday that he will make the names of 15 jurors and alternates who sat in the courtroom public next week.

A South Florida man has been convicted of posting bombmaking instructions on the internet for people who he believed were Islamic terrorists.