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The cause of death of 25 dolphins who washed up in Mauritius near the site of an oil spill remains unclear after two of the animals showed no trace of oil in their bodies, a preliminary autopsy report showed on Thursday.

The missing father of Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Mackensie Alexander turned up early Thursday at a ranger station at a Florida state park, sheriff's officials said.

A man has been arrested in London on suspicion of war crimes relating to the first and second Liberian civil wars between 1989 and 2003, British police said Thursday.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday visited Oman's new sultan, the last stop on a Mideast trip that sought to build on an Americanbrokered deal to have Israel and the United Arab Emirates normalize relations.

French Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Thursday the government must move fast to head off a deadly new COVID19 wave as the virus's reproduction level has jumped, with infections surging in the Paris region and among young people.

The United States and China traded jibes as military tensions grow between the world's two largest economies, with the U.S. defence chief vowing not to "cede an inch" in the Pacific and China saying Washington was risking soldiers' lives.

The company plans to produce part of the vaccine at its Czech plant, which will give the country access to the product once it is approved, a paper cited Executive Stanley Erck as saying.

A typhoon that grazed South Korea, ripping off roofs and knocking out power to more than 1,600 households, made landfall in North Korea early Thursday. South Korean authorities said there were no immediate reports of casualties, and North Korea has not re...

The Kansas Democratic Party on Wednesday declared that the 19yearold nominee for a state House seat is unfit for office because of alarming behavior that includes admitting to circulating revenge porn, and he said his online fundraising account has been d...

The owner of the stretched limousine that crashed and killed 20 people in upstate New York repeatedly changed the listed number of seats in the vehicle and took other steps to avoid safety regulations, according to documents released Wednesday by federal...

A former Minnesota college student pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal charge that she tried to help al-Qaida.

When she introduces her father at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, Ivanka Trump intends to focus on the help he's offered working families along with personal insights into how he makes decisions, according to two people with direct knowled...

A federal judge on Wednesday accepted the guilty plea of a longtime North Carolina state lawmaker who acknowledged conducting a scheme to funnel campaign dollars to his ailing farm.

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that a Virginia school boards transgender bathroom ban is unconstitutional and discriminated against a transgender male student who was barred from using the boys bathrooms in his high school.

A small number of U.S. troops were injured during an interaction with Russian forces in Syria, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday.

Bulgarias justice minister resigned Wednesday amid strong public criticism of a controversial proposal for a new constitution he coauthored.