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The Delaware man charged in federal court with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has a long criminal history and was pardoned just last year by Delawares governor for crimes dating to 1994, according to state records.

There are few topics that Joe Biden isn't willing to opine on except the Supreme Court.

British model and activist Emily Ratajkowski has a book deal. EmRata, as her millions of online followers know her, is working on an essay collection called My Body. Metropolitan Books will published it in 2022.

The average daily number of COVID19 cases in England has doubled in a week, an infection survey by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Friday, feeding concern that the epidemic is once again growing exponentially.

New coronavirus restrictions put a spotlight on two Belgian classics this week: Beer and surrealism.

A security official in Ethiopias Western BenishangulGumuz region says an attack this week killed 14 civilians and security forces killed 14 militia members.

Australia reported its second straight day without any COVID19 deaths on Friday, the longest stretch without any fatalities from the virus in three months.

China said on Friday it has formally joined the global COVID19 vaccine facility known as COVAX, becoming the biggest economy to back the initiative to date.

Kidnapped Malian politician Soumaila Cisse and French aid worker Sophie Petronin were freed on Thursday, Mali's presidency said, after lengthy periods in the hands of Islamist insurgents.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear Bill Cosby's appeal of his felony sex assault conviction on Dec. 1.

Dozens of people converged on the cobblestone streets of downtown Rio de Janeiro for its traditional Pedra do Sal samba party the first since the pandemic began and it seemed Brazil was returning to normal.

The president of Kyrgyzstan held his first talks Thursday with the newly appointed speaker of parliament to try to end a political crisis that unfolded in the Central Asian country after mass protests over a disputed parliamentary election.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Union on Thursday gave 100 million euros ($117.5 million) to Albania to help its tourism industry recover and boost its competitiveness in the region.

Pope Francis told European antimoney laundering experts Thursday that the Vatican was committed to clean finance, as he denounced financial speculation amid a spiraling corruption investigation in the heart of the Holy See.

A 700yearold Chinese painted scroll from the Yuan Dynasty fetched 306.6 million Hong Kong dollars ($41.8 million) at a Sothebys auction in Hong Kong.

Mike Pence achieved on the debate stage what arguably President Donald Trump did not in a similar showdown last week: He offered a cogent and restrained case for why traditional Republicans and some swing voters should return the TrumpPence ticket to the...