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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday rejected demands for a vote of confidence in her government over a Uturn on a circuitbreaker lockdown over Easter that compounded discontent with her handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders said Wednesday that its staff saw Ethiopian government troops shooting and killing four men whom soldiers forced off a civilian bus on a road in the embattled region of Tigray.

President Joe Biden is making the case Wednesday that the pay disparity between men and women has hurt the economy, bringing members of the U.S. womens national soccer team to the White House to help set new goals for equality.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-OPENING SCHOOLS Chart. The AP embed chart shows the percentage of U.S. fourth graders attending in-person, hybrid and all-virtual school in January, noting that student from racial and ethnic minority backgrounds are more likely to attend s...

The most well-known Russian coronavirus vaccine is Sputnik V. Moscow has also given emergency approval to two others, EpiVacCorona and CoviVac.

Three were gunned down while putting in a day's work at a Colorado supermarket. Another was a police officer who raced in to try to rescue them and others from the attack that left 10 dead.

A nurse and a correctional officer at a highsecurity prison in eastern Iowa died Tuesday after an inmate attacked multiple staff members and other inmates, state officials said.

With the birth rate nosediving, The Lancet recently predicted China's population could halve by 2100, falling behind India and Nigeria.

For a third time, a judge rejected a bail package Monday aimed at freeing Ghislaine Maxwell as the exgirlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein awaits trial on charges that she recruited teenage girls for him to sexually abuse.

Three former Florida deputies are facing charges after several hundred dollars seized during an arrest went missing, officials said Monday.

The United States, the European Union, Britain and Canada imposed sanctions on Chinese officials on Monday for human rights abuses in Xinjiang, in the first such coordinated Western action against Beijing under new U.S President Joe Biden.

Ava Arpaio, the wife of the former longtime sheriff of metro Phoenix who faithfully supported her husband in his controversial political career yet still managed to be liked by some of his toughest critics, has died at age 89.

The move marks the second year in a row that fun has been curtailed at the popular spring break destination last March because the pandemic was just ramping up and this year due to unruly and destructive crowds.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has tested positive for the coronavirus two days after he received his first vaccine dose, officials announced Saturday.

Minutes earlier the president and Vice President Kamala Harris met leaders of Georgia's Asian-American community in the wake of eight people, including six women of Asian descent, being shot dead at massage parlors in the Atlanta area.

Texas' environmental regulator on Friday barred most uses of the water at an oilfield camp converted into a holding center for immigrant teenagers, raising alarms about the safety of more than 400 youths detained there.