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The widespread Taliban offensive has seen the insurgents capture key border crossings, dozens of districts and encircle several provincial capitals since early May.

China, Bhutan, Sweden, Hungary and New Zealand have told citizens they can remove their masks. Israel did so on June 15, but brought them back days later amid a rise in cases.

In the Rhineland-Palatinate region, which was the worst hit by the storms, 132 are now confirmed dead and 766 injured.

The Canadian government said Friday it will fasttrack resettlement of potentially thousands of Afghans who have worked with Canada over the past 20 years but offered few details of who will be eligible or when people now in danger from the Taliban will st...

The United States and Russia will hold the first round of strategic and arms control talks of the Biden administration next week in Switzerland, the two countries announced on Friday.

A man charged in the fatal shooting of a SWAT officer in a small West Texas city during a standoff last week was charged Friday with assaulting a federal officer who responded to the scene, prosecutors said.

The United States is considering cracking down on Iranian oil sales to China as it braces for the possibility that Tehran may not return to nuclear talks or may adopt a harder line whenever it does, a U.S. official said.

The U.S. Supreme Court should overturn its landmark 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide and should let states decide whether to regulate abortion before a fetus can survive outside the womb, the office of Mississippi's Republican attorney gener...

University of California regents have approved a multiyear plan to raise tuition and fees at the systems 10 campuses.

The Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday vacated a lower court's decision in the state's Medicaid expansion case, agreeing that the voter-approved plan to offer Medicaid to more people should stand.

The Florida company whose software was exploited in the devastating Fourth of July weekend ransomware attack, Kaseya, has received a universal key that will decrypt all of the more than 1,000 businesses and public organizations crippled in the global inci...

An antigovernment hip hop song by some of Cuba's most popular musicians in exile became the anthem of the unprecedented protests that rocked the Communistrun country last week.

Louisiana House lawmakers Wednesday failed to overturn Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards veto of legislation banning transgender athletes from school sports teams, a significant blow to Republicanled efforts to enact the new law in an historic veto session...

The UN health agency says the number of deaths is continuing to decline, with about 57,000 in the last week.

Across town, the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed that one of her senior spokespeople had tested positive, after meeting with Democratic state lawmakers from Texas who had been in the US capital.

Barring reporters from court for one part of jury selection in the upcoming murder trial of three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery would violate wellestablished precedent and be a striking step in the wrong direction, media outlets, including The Asso...