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A former Idaho state lawmaker charged with rape earlier this month has been arrested in Georgia.

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops on Friday officially apologized for their role in the country's notorious residential school system for the first time, after refusing to do so for years despite public pressure.

Chad's transitional government said on Friday that it plans to drastically increase the size of its army to deal with security challenges, including threats from Islamist militants and armed rebels.

Cuba is allowing a staggered opening from Friday of restaurants, shopping centres and beaches in provinces that have lowered coronavirus cases even as it battles some of the highest nationwide rates of infection per capita worldwide.

Reported sexual assaults have sparked large protests on college campuses in at least seven states just weeks into the new school year, which advocates say reflects both a greater vulnerability among students who spent last school year learning remotelyand...

Wisconsin Republican state lawmakers on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss a redistricting lawsuit brought by Democrats that asks a federal court to draw political boundary lines in the battleground state.

At a U.N. General Assembly meeting packed with global gloom, Japan's outgoing leader highlighted what he cast as a moment of inspiration: the Tokyo Olympics, controversially held in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.

China isn't officially on the agenda of the quad summit, but the four countries will likely stress backing for a free and open Indo-Pacific region.

The father and stepmother of an 8yearold Minnesota girl whose emaciated body was found in the family's apartment last year after she was beaten and starved to death were both sentenced Thursday to 40 years in prison.

The chief investigator for a Boston museum still working to recover $500 million worth of art stolen in 1990 said Thursday he was hoping for new leads to emerge following the death of a highly scrutinized figure in the case.

The chief investigator for a Boston museum still working to recover $500 million worth of art stolen in 1990 said Thursday he was hoping for new leads to emerge following the death of a highly scrutinized figure in the case.

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The 9th U.S. Court of Appeals on Thursday overturned a federal judges sweeping order that required the city and county of Los Angeles to quickly find shelter for all homeless people living on downtowns Skid Row.

The 9th U.S. Court of Appeals on Thursday overturned a federal judges sweeping order that required the city and county of Los Angeles to quickly find shelter for all homeless people living on downtowns Skid Row.

A lawsuit was filed Thursday challenging Ohio's newly drawn state legislative districts as giving an extreme and unfair advantage to the Republican Party.

Paraguay's crucial outlet to the sea fell to its lowest level in at least 117 years on Thursday, threatening massive economic losses to the small South American nation.