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Terry and Roger Hugo, both retirees in their 70s, couldn't wait to see their grandchildren come over to visit South Africa from Britain for the first time, after cancelling last year's Christmas plans because of COVID19.

Students were seen approaching vehicles -- including police vans -- and asking those behind the steering wheel to show their driving licenses.

Nine people were injured in northcentral Wisconsin when a vehicle rearended an Amish buggy at highway speeds," authorities said.

The trials of Kyle Rittenhouse and three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery had vastly different outcomes. But coming just days apart, they laid bare a dangerous and long-running current in the fight for racial equality: The move by some white Americans...

The killing was captured on video and shared around the world: Ahmaud Arbery running toward and then around an idling pickup truck before its driver blasted him at close range with a shotgun.

The short skirts. The sparkly pompoms. The sassy hip sways. The grandchildren.

Police in Tennessee have tied a car used in the killing of rapper Young Dolph to a shooting that left a woman dead and wounded another person days before the ambush on the hiphop artist, authorities said Monday.

An Iowa law that prohibits Medicaid coverage for sex reassignment surgeries for transgender residents violates state law and the state constitution, a judge ruled in a decision made public Monday.

A formerly homeless man who ended up in a mental institution for more than two years because of mistaken identity is suing the state and various Honolulu police officers, Hawaii public defenders and doctors.

Ecuador and Colombia on Sunday agreed to the bilateral reopening of their shared border from the start of December after it was closed amid the coronavirus pandemic, and pledged to work together to combat drug trafficking.

Turnout for Brazils standardized university admission exam on Sunday appeared to be the lowest in 15 years, in large part reflecting the impact of the COVID19 pandemic on the nations education, according to experts.

France is sending special police agents to restore order in the French overseas territory of Guadeloupe hit by rioting and looting amid protests against COVID19 protocols, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Saturday.

For many Black Americans, Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal of all charges by a Wisconsin jury on Friday confirmed their belief in two justice systems: one for white people and another for Black people.

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.

For the hundreds of travelers stranded on a mountain road between two mudslides outside the small British Columbia town of Hope on Sunday, the first night was the worst. They had to sleep in their cars.

Two people have been shot in the parking lot of a high school in the Denver suburb of Aurora, and the school is on lockdown, police said Friday. The shooting came after six students from another Aurora high school were shot and injured Monday at a park ne...