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Kpop superstars BTS have raised $3.6 million and generated millions of tweets during four years of teaming up with the U.N. children's agency to fight violence, abuse and bullying and promote selfesteem in young people, the agency is announcing Wednesday.

A 2017 lawsuit challenging former New Orleans prosecutors for hardball tactics, including the issuance of fake subpoenas and the jailing of crime victims who wouldn't cooperate with investigators, was settled Tuesday in federal court.

For Afghanistan, the last two decades is believed to be one of the most important and rich eras when it comes to the level of education in the country.

Selfexiled Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont said on Monday he felt he was closer to returning to the northeastern Spanish region after an Italian court suspended a case regarding Spain's latest extradition request.

A massive leak of financial documents was published by several major news organizations on Sunday that allegedly tie world leaders to secret stores of wealth, including King Abdullah of Jordan, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and associates of Russian P...

Thousands of Tunisians attended demonstrations in Tunis and other cities this weekend in a show of support for President Kais Saieds recent consolidation of power a move that his critics have dubbed a coup.

Authorities say they have found the body of a missing Florida college student who disappeared a week ago.

Amid a national debate over the use of pandemic relief funds, Alabama lawmakers swiftly approved a plan to tap $400 million from the American Rescue Plan to help build two supersize prisons, brushing off criticism from congressional Democrats that the mon...

An environmental lawyer who waged a decadeslong campaign to hold Chevron accountable for oil pollution in the rainforests of Ecuador was sentenced Friday to six months in jail for violating a federal judges orders related to his fight against the energy g...

Close to 75 million doses of Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna and Sinopharm vaccines will be distributed in October to 49 countries considered among the least covered.

Foxconn Technology Group, the worlds largest electronics maker, has a deal to buy a huge auto assembly plant in Ohio from startup electric truck maker Lordstown Motors, the companies announced Thursday.

The New York chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union sued New York Citys police department on Thursday, saying it is illegally keeping the vast majority of officer disciplinary records out of public view.

Scammers were able to pocket nearly 30% of the $16 billion in unemployment insurance payments paid out by Arizona since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the director of the state agency overseeing the program said Thursday.

President Joe Biden's administration says it has followed a court order to schedule an offshore oil and gas lease sale for the Gulf of Mexico after the Democratic president's moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on federal lands was blocked by a judge.

Beaches and recreation centers reopened in Cuba's capital Thursday after authorities announced it was time to resume outdoor activities, including strolling on the Malecon coastal promenade that has long been a gathering place for Havana.

About 1,900 fighters belonging to Colombian rebel and crime groups are operating from Venezuela, where they plan attacks and participate in drug trafficking, the commander of Colombia's armed forces said.