House Democrats scored a victory for checks and balances Friday after the D.C. Circuit revived their challenge to billions of dollars that the Trump administration has diverted to build a border wall.
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With the global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic nearing 1 million, Europe is once again becoming a hotspot as several European nations report thousands of new infections each day.
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An activist-turned-MP has been indicted for embezzling more than 100 million won donated to help elderly victims used by Japan as wartime sex slaves, South Korean officials said Monday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) — Fires raging in the Pantanal, the biggest tropical wetlands on Earth, are threatening a nature
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North Carolina is a key swing state in the November election, and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has just a 2-point lead there on President Donald Trump, a Thursday poll shows.
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The United Nations weather agency says this summer will go down for leaving a “deep wound” in the cryosphere — the planet’s frozen parts — amid a heat wave in the Arctic, shrinking sea ice and the collapse of a leading Canadian ice shelf.
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The coronavirus pandemic has brought hard times for many farmers and has imperiled food security for many millions both in the cities and the countryside.
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The Federal Reserve sent markets into rally mode early Thursday with its announcement that it will let inflation to creep upward as it monitors the economy.
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Hard work and dedication have finally paid off for one street vendor recognized by Michelin and awarded a place on the food guide’s Bib Gourmand list.
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NATO allies Turkey and Greece are facing off in one of their fiercest rows in months over natural gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
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A new, potentially explosive geopolitical dimension is being added to the puzzle that is the Middle East: A push by Israel, Europe, Egypt, Turkey and even the United States to drill for fossil fuels in the waters of the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
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Alarmed by deceitful witness testimony from the trial, the Second Circuit sketched defeat Wednesday for a New York school board found to have used at-large elections dominated by an Orthodox Jewish political bloc to shut out minority voters.
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Coinciding with the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage, President Donald Trump on Tuesday posthumously pardoned Susan B. Anthony in connection to her arrest for voting some 148 years ago.
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Read moreA wave of protests aimed at bringing down the 26-year dictatorial rule of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is intensifying after jailed protesters accused the government of beating and torturing them in the chaotic days following last Sunday’s disputed presidential election.
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A woolly brown rhinoceros that weighed 2 tons once roamed northeastern Siberia before mysteriously disappearing around 14,000 years ago.
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Wall Street flatlined despite a better-than expected jobs report Friday as Congress still deliberates over a stimulus package.
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Joe Biden is pushing back at Republican assertions that he should take a cognitive test to disprove President Donald Trump’s claim that the Democrat isn’t fit for the Oval Office.
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From biblical plague to modern day protein, one Israeli firm wants to make locusts a sustainable food choice in the Holy Land and beyond.
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French prosecutors have indicted pharma giant Sanofi for manslaughter over birth defects linked to an epilepsy drug, the company said Monday, in a long-running case that has also seen it charged with fraud.
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