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Jill Biden opened the holiday season at the White House on Monday by breaking off a small branch from the official Blue Room tree and giving it along with a big smooch to her toddler grandson.

The regional train system serving the Washington, D.C., area will remain on drastically reduced service levels through at least the end of this year, as authorities grapple with a safety problem that has forced the majority of the trains out of service.

More than 100 Afghans believed to have been at risk from the Taliban were granted temporary shelter Monday in Greece after being evacuated on a special flight to the northern city of Thessaloniki.

Canada announced Monday it has suspended all shipments of fresh potatoes from Prince Edward Island to the United States after the recent discovery of potato wart on several farms in the province.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel talked on the phone with Belarusian opposition leader in exile Svetlana Tikhanouskaya about the political crisis in Belarus and the "difficult situation" at the border with the European Union, a government spokesperson said...

Despite insisting they will rule more moderately this time around, the Taliban have already introduced rules for what women can wear at university, and beaten and harassed several Afghan journalists despite promising to uphold press freedoms.

Billy Hinsche, a singersongwriter and musician in a 1960s pop band with Dino Martin Jr. and Desi Arnaz Jr. who later recorded and toured for decades with The Beach Boys, has died, according to friends and former associates. He was 70.

An Ohiobased church organization says two of 17 abducted members of a missionary group have been freed in Haiti.

Three protesters were injured by French soldiers in the town of Kaya in Burkina Faso Saturday during the third day of a civilian blockade against a French military convoy en route to Niger, several protesters said.

Hooker Peato Mauvaka continued his remarkable scoring form with two more tries as France handed New Zealand a stinging 4025 defeat on Saturday to deepen the wounds after the All Blacks lost in Ireland last weekend.

An allclear was given Saturday at Atlanta's airport after a gun accidentally discharged in the facility's security screening area, causing chaos, authorities said.

A police officer in North Carolina shot and killed a man on Friday after responding to a caller's report that somebody was trying to enter a home, authorities said.

The United States and Taiwan next week will hold a second session of an economic dialogue launched last year in the face of increasing pressure on the island from China, the State Department said on Friday.

The United States condemns the detention of Yemeni staff of the U.S. embassy in Sanaa by the Houthi movement and demands their immediate release, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement on Friday.

Authorities imposed a curfew on the French overseas territory of Guadeloupe on Friday following five days of civil unrest over COVID19 protocols that have seen barricades burned in the streets and firefighters and doctors walk out on strike.

Crowds of rioters torched cars and threw rocks at police who responded with shots and water canon, as protests against COVID19 measures turned violent in the port city of Rotterdam on Friday night.