The governor of Nigeria's northwestern Zamfara state says that 279 schoolgirls abducted last week from a boarding school have been released

President Joe Biden’s choice to head the Securities and Exchange Commission is coming before a Senate panel in a virtual hearing Tuesday as a roiling stock-trading drama spurs clamor for tighter regulation of Wall Street

Asian Americans have faced a dangerous climate since the coronavirus entered the U.S. a year ago

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s response to accusations that he sexually harassed women on the job is being viewed as a tone-deaf “faux-pology” by critics and victim's advocates

It has been nearly a year since dual tragedies descended on Nashville, Tennessee: a deadly tornado that killed people in their sleep and the coronavirus pandemic

Two Americans suspected of helping former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn skip bail and escape to Lebanon in December 2019 have been extradited to Japan

Demonstrators in Myanmar again took to the streets Tuesday to protest last month’s seizure of power by the military, as foreign ministers of Southeast Asian countries prepared to meet to discuss the political crisis

FBI Director Chris Wray is set to testify for the first time since the deadly Jan. 6 deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol

Democrats across the country celebrated New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as the face of governing competence as President Donald Trump fumbled his administration’s response to the exploding pandemic last year

Democrats’ hopes of including a minimum wage increase in their huge COVID-19 relief bill seem all but dead

Democrats across the country celebrated New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as the face of governing competence as President Donald Trump fumbled his administration’s response to the exploding pandemic last year

Democrats’ hopes of including a minimum wage increase in their huge COVID-19 relief bill seem all but dead

A United Nations appeal for aid to Yemen to alleviate the world’s worst humanitarian disaster raised some $1_7 billion — a result the U_N_ chief called “disappointing.”

Brazilian health officials are urging nationwide lockdowns and curfews because hospitals are running short of intensive-care unit beds as COVID-19 claims more than 1,000 lives each day in the country

Calls for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign are intensifying now that a third woman has accused him of offensive behavior

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is on trial for his role in a 1990s government program in which many Indigenous women in poor communities say they were forcibly sterilized, and some died or suffered serious injuries because of infection

Sen_ Mitt Romney says he was knocked unconscious in a fall over the weekend, but that he is “doing better.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislative leaders have reached an agreement aimed at getting most public school children back in classrooms by the end of March

Police in Myanmar’s biggest city have fired tear gas at defiant crowds who returned to the streets to protest last month’s coup

Saudi Arabia’s U.N. ambassador is disputing the U.S. intelligence report which concluded that the Saudi crown prince approved an operation to kill or capture dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi

Congress is beginning debate on the biggest overhaul of U.S. elections law in a generation

As President Joe Biden looks to dismantle the last administration’s hardline immigration agenda, he finds himself trying to build a partnership with someone who found an unexpected understanding with Donald Trump: Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Canada’s largest city has started vaccinating police officers ahead of people 80 years of age and older

Officials say heavy rain across Appalachia has led to water rescues, mudslides, road closures and power outages

The Senate has voted to confirm Miguel Cardona as education secretary, clearing his way to lead President Joe Biden’s effort to reopen the nation’s schools amid the coronavirus pandemic

The Biden administration has put the brakes on an exchange of federal land in eastern Arizona that had cleared the way for a massive copper mine

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Authorities say a 15-year-old boy shot and killed a fellow student at an Arkansas junior high school

Texas’ top utilities regulator resigned Monday, in the widening fallout from blackouts triggered by an unusually heavy and widespread winter storm that left millions in the state without power and water for days

An intruder burst into Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's daily morning news conference, approached him and spoke with the leader for a while before an aide accompanied the man into a back office to listen to his complaint

The Supreme Court seems likely to find that the judges who oversee patent disputes are not properly appointed

A young American on trial in Rome for the slaying of an Italian police officer has told the court he stabbed the victim because he feared he was being strangled

With the U.S. vaccination drive picking up speed and a third formula on the way, states eager to reopen for business are easing coronavirus restrictions despite warnings from health experts that the outbreak is far from over and that moving too quickly could prolong the misery

Colombia has became the first country in the Americas to receive a shipment of coronavirus vaccines from the United Nations-backed COVAX initiative

Questions about how a limited supply of vaccine should be distributed have now found a new focus in rural America

Conservative leaders within the United Methodist Church have unveiled plans to form a new denomination called the Global Methodist Church, with a doctrine that does not recognize same-sex marriage

The chief financial officer for Chinese communications giant Huawei Technologies is returning to a Canadian courtroom to begin a series of hearings in which her lawyers will argue her extradition to the U.S. should be halted because her rights have been violated

A Moroccan landscape painted by Winston Churchill and owned by Angelina Jolie has sold for more than $11.5 million, smashing the previous record for a work by Britain’s World War II leader

A top EU official has visited ex-Soviet republic Georgia and urged all of its parties to engage in a dialogue to solve the country’s political crisis

Germany’s Social Democrats, traditionally the country’s main center-left party, have unveiled an election program that seeks higher taxes for the richest and a higher minimum wage while also emphasizing climate protection

Kosovo’s prime minister-designate is finding himself in a difficult diplomatic position ahead of taking the post following his country’s diplomatic ties with Israel

Czech police and military forces have set up 500 checkpoints across the country to enforce new strict limits on free movement

The Pentagon says it is providing a new $125 million aid package to Ukraine, including two armed patrol boats to help the country defend its territorial waters

The European Union’s special envoy for talks between Serbia and Kosovo have started a visit to Pristina for meetings with local leaders on resuming dialogue between the two countries

Slovakia has signed a deal to acquire 2 million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine

The World Health Organization's emergencies chief says it's “premature” and “unrealistic” to think that the pandemic might be stopped by the end of the year

Greece’s government says it won't intervene to grant a prison-transfer demand by a convicted killer in an extreme-left extremist group who has been on hunger strike for more than seven weeks, triggering public protests as well as arson attacks

Hairdressers across Germany have reopened for business after a 2½-month closure, another cautious step as the country balances a desire to loosen restrictions with concern about the impact of more contagious virus variants

Amid escalating political tensions, supporters of Armenia's embattled prime minister and the opposition have rallied at separate sites in the capital of Yerevan

Shoppers and store owners alike were basking in Switzerland's reopening of nonessential shops like bookstores and clothing vendors