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Gov. Greg Abbott, in defending Texas' nearban on abortions, says women and girls who are raped won't be forced to give birth because the new law "provides at least six weeks for a person to be able to get an abortion.

The United States will extend deportation relief and work permits for more than 300,000 Salvadorans, Hondurans and other immigrants in the United States and enrolled in a program known as Temporary Protected Status (TPS), according to an announcement on T...

Confusion over proper procedures at a Veterans Affairs hospital allowed a dead veteran to go unnoticed in a stairwell for more than a month after he was reported missing, according to a federal report released Thursday.

'We have concerned about the way we are treated by the US State Department. It’s not that we want to embarrass the USA but for us also it’s a big day,' a source was quoted as saying.

A federal judge has granted classaction status in a lawsuit filed six years ago that alleged the Chicago Police Department's stopandfrisk policy targeted Black and Hispanic people who hadn't committed any crime.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson won Parliament's support on Wednesday for a big tax hike to pay for shortterm health requirements arising from the coronavirus pandemic, as well as for longterm care needed by Britains growing older population.

The Oklahoma attorney general's office has asked the state's Court of Criminal Appeals to push back execution dates for seven death row inmates based on requirements to give a 35day notice before any execution.

A United Nations panel said Wednesday that at least 18,000 Yemeni civilians have been killed or wounded by airstrikes since the countrys war escalated in 2015.

The 13 troops were killed Aug. 26 as they were helping to screen Afghans and others at the Abbey Gate of the Kabul airport.

Biden taught at NOVA, where she has been faculty since 2009, last semester too, and the story of her learning how to become proficient in leading Zoom classes while on the campaign trail became an oft-told anecdote.

A Georgia teenager faces juvenile charges after he attacked a student who was draped in a gay pride flag in a school cafeteria, authorities say.

A deadly Mexico City metro collapse in May was caused in part by missing bolts in beams in an overpass that already had deficiencies before a major earthquake, according to an independent auditor's report released on Tuesday by the city government.

Venezuela has received its first batch of coronavirus vaccines through the COVAX mechanism intended for poor countries, the PanAmerican Health Organization (PAHO) said on Tuesday, after months of delays the government attributed to U.S. sanctions.

Poorly welded, badly located and completely missing studs that joined steel support beams to a concrete layer supporting the track bed were to blame for the May 3 collapse of an elevated segment of Mexico Citys metro that killed 26 people, experts conclud...

The U.N. atomic watchdog on Tuesday criticised Iran for stonewalling an investigation into past activities and jeopardising important monitoring work in Iran, possibly complicating efforts to resume talks on the Iran nuclear deal.

President Joe Biden marked the Labor Day holiday on Monday by delivering deli sandwiches to union members, the people he says built the middle class.