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A former Chicago police officer who was captured nearly 15 years after he fled while awaiting trial on drug charges was sentenced Thursday to 13 years in federal prison.

And now they joke?

Bestselling authors David and Nicola Yoon are launching a Random House Children's Books imprint for young adult romance novels by and about people of color. They are calling the imprint Joy Revolution and plan to release the first books in 2022.

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Former Virginia House Speaker Kirk Cox has filed paperwork with the state to run for governor next year, joining a small field of Republicans looking to enter the race.

A California with vastly different political preferences and demographics is voting on whether to allow affirmative action in public hiring, contracting and college admissions nearly a quarter century after voters outlawed programs that give preference b...

Lebanons parliament speaker confirmed Thursday that an agreement has been reached on a framework of indirect talks between Lebanon and Israel over a longstanding disputed maritime border between the two countries.

Marine wildlife experts will try Thursday to move a pod of bottlenose whales from Scottish coastal waters where Europes largest naval exercise is about to begin.

Beleaguered firefighters in the western United States have a new force on their side: Baby Yoda.

The prevalence of COVID19 infections in England is much higher than it was at the end of August but there are signs that growth in infection rate is slowing, a study by Imperial College said on Thursday.

The United States has held off on joining Britain and Canada in imposing sanctions on Belarus in hopes the European Union can overcome an internal dispute, paving the way to coordinated U.S. and EU sanctions, four sources said on Wednesday.

The U.S. allowed in just over 10,800 refugees a little more than half of the 18,000 caps set by Trump for 2020 before the State Department suspended the program because of the coronavirus.

If America had an Amtrak riderinchief, Joe Biden would be it.

Joaqun Salvador Lavado, an Argentine cartoonist better known as Quino whose satirical comic strip about a socially conscious girl named Mafalda with a loathing for soup,found fans across Latin America, Europe and beyond, died on Wednesday at the age of 88...

The United States on Wednesday blacklisted what it called "key enablers" of Syrian President Bashar alAssad's government, reinforcing efforts to push Damascus back to United Nationsled negotiations to end Syria's nearly decadelong civil war.