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A 29yearold New Orleans man has been convicted a second time of murdering one of his infant twin sons in the suburb where their mother was living, the district attorney said Friday.

Costa Rica's attorney general, Emilia Navas, said on Friday that she was resigning to avoid perceived conflicts of interest during a corruption investigation in which her husband represents some of the defendants.

For a moment, the sight of a Christmas trees in the back of the bombedout building took the workers aback. There it was, still standing at the approach of summer, adorned with festive holiday decorations amid the rubble of the powerful blast last winter.

The Delta variant is highly transmissible and is listed as a “variant of concern” by WHO.

Biden has asked Congress to approve $3.3 billion in security assistance for Afghanistan next year and is sending 3 million doses of vaccines there to help it battle COVID-19.

An indigenous group in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan on Thursday said it had found the unmarked graves of up to 751 people at a nowdefunct Catholic residential school, just weeks after a similar discovery rocked the country.

Efforts to clean up a leaky reservoir that dumped tens of millions of gallons of potentially hazardous gypsum wastewater into Tampa Bay must be overseen by a federal judge to guard against continued mismanagement, environmental groups claimed in a lawsuit...

Canada's Liberal government on Wednesday unveiled plans to make online hate speech a crime, although the proposed legislation excludes social media platforms for now.

The United States on Thursday will ship 3 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson oneshot COVID19 vaccine to Brazil, the country with the secondhighest coronavirus death toll in the world, a White House official said on Wednesday.

Brazilian Environment Minister Ricardo Salles quit on Wednesday, facing a criminal investigation of whether he obstructed a police probe of illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest.

By highlighting cities that played host to significant events during the civil rights movement, a new book aims to make that complex history easier to understand and to pass its legacy on to younger generations.

Shi Zhengli, known as batwoman for her work on coronaviruses in bats also received a special mention from the academy.

Mongolia, a beneficiary of Sinopharm shots, quickly rolled out an inoculation program and eased restrictions. But on Sunday, it recorded 2,400 new infections, a quadrupling from a month before.

Attorney General Merrick Garland said Tuesday that private industry needs better safeguards to avoid calamitous consequences in the event of cyberattacks like the ones that have targeted American infrastructure and corporations.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has told Democratic colleagues that she is creating a new committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, according to a person familiar with her remarks.

A Turkish businessman has been arrested by the U.S. Justice Department in connection with what authorities say was a biodiesel fraud scheme operated by a Utah business that stole nearly $500 million in government funds.