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U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Wednesday said talks with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made progress on COVID19 relief legislation, and the House of Representatives postponed a vote on a $2.2 trillion Democratic coronavirus plan to allow more time...

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.

A prosecutor said two onduty white Alabama officers brutally beat a Black man five months ago after the victim got into a roadrage incident with the wife of one of the officers.

The count was up from the International Labour Organization's previous estimates in early August that 14 million jobs had been lost in the region.

The owners of the horse racing track in New Orleans have agreed to pay a $2.8 million penalty for letting horse manure and urine into the citys drainage system for at least six years and to spend twice that on ending the discharges, federal prosecutors sa...

U.S. House of Representative Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin met on Wednesday in a bid to broker a bipartisan deal on stalled COVID19 relief legislation ahead of the Nov. 3 election.

A federal judge has ruled that an Indiana law wrongly throws out mailin ballots that dont arrive at county election offices by noon on Election Day.

The coronavirus pandemic has put a massive damper on student life across the globe. But in Brussels it has one boon: graduation at a UNESCO Word Heritage location.

Poland's ruling nationalists appeared to have taken a turn further to the right on Wednesday with the appointment of an ultraconservative education chief in a new cabinet lineup, raising the prospect of new friction with the European Union.

One million people are confirmed to have lost their lives to COVID19, but "the real number is certainly higher", World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a highlevel United Nations event on Wednesday.

A multinational police operation this week led to the arrest of a dozen suspected smugglers who take migrants across the English Channel to the U.K. in small boats under dangerous conditions, officials said Wednesday.

A U.S. Air Force F35B fighter jet crashed after it collided with an aerial refueling tanker on Tuesday, a U.S. marines unit said.

When recently returned New Zealander Lara Barclay talked to fellow Kiwi expatriates in Australia, it was her country's success in tackling coronavirus that came up again and again and the crisis role of prime minister Jacinda Ardern.

If there is anything the Rev. Mario Carminati and the traumatized residents of Italys Bergamo province remember about the worst days of the coronavirus outbreak, its the wail of ambulance sirens piercing the silence of lockdown.

The number of tests coming back positive for COVID19 is rising in several states in the U.S. Midwest as cases and hospitalizations also surge in the region, according to a Reuters analysis.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday didnt clearly condemn white supremacist groups and their role in violence in some American cities this summer, branding it solely a left-wing problem and telling one far-right extremist group to stand back and stand by.