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Federal agents searched the New York homes of people tied to the conservative group Project Veritas months after the group received a diary that a tipster claimed belonged to President Joe Bidens youngest daughter, its leader said Friday.

The board of trustees at North Carolinas flagship university has given itself new power over highly paid faculty appointments in the aftermath of controversy over tenure for a Black journalism professor.

An organization that bought a human body and organized its public dissection says it had a contract saying it could be used for education, and its Cadaver Lab Class was appropriately educational, despite criticism from the man's widow.

Six people were pulled from the detritus alive, while rescuers found a half dozen bodies in Batu and two more victims in Malang.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy was declared the winner in his reelection campaign Wednesday after results from mail ballots and Democraticleaning counties helped the Democrat extend his lead over Republican Jack Ciattarelli.

A teenager with a lengthy arrest record was indicted Thursday on a firstdegree murder charge in the fatal shooting of a South Florida police officer.

Two suspected drug gang members were shot dead in a beachfront clash between rival groups near the Mexican resort of Cancun on Thursday, authorities said, a couple of weeks after two tourists were killed in crossfire at another beach.

New York prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trumps business dealings have convened a new grand jury to hear evidence in the probe as the previous panels term was set to run out, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press Th...

The trial of a former longshot Idaho gubernatorial candidate charged in the killing of a 12yearold Colorado girl ended Thursday with jurors unable to reach verdicts on the most serious charges against him.

Amid an historic drought posing threats to future harvests, California farmers now say they are struggling to export the crops they do have because of a kink in the global supply chain that has left container ships lined up off the Southern California coa...

Asia's gradual easing of international travel curbs is proving a welcome relief for the region's hardhit tourism operators slowly opening up to visitors from around the world with one giant exception.

The International Criminal Court is opening a formal investigation into crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Venezuela under President Nicols Maduros rule.

Citing unspecified examples of election fraud, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday pledged to create a law enforcement agency to investigate election crimes as part of a new package of voting laws.

The U.N. Security Council agreed unanimously Wednesday to extend the mandate of the European Union military force in Bosnia, voting after Russia blocked members from hearing a warning from the top international official in Bosnia that the warscarred Balka...

During a visit to South Carolina's Port of Charleston, the nation's ninthbusiest, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh said Wednesday that slowdowns and bottlenecks at the nation's shipping terminals are the result of an ongoing pandemic, coupled with problems lik...

A former president of Costa Rica leads the Central American country's presidential race, but he has only modest support and many voters are undecided about which candidate to choose, an opinion poll for the Feb. 6 contest showed on Wednesday.