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Tanden, 50, chief executive of the Center for American Progress, a liberal Washington think-tank, has been an outspoken critic of former president Donald Trump. 

Facebook has publicly indicated no change in its opposition to a proposed law requiring social media platforms to pay for links to news content. Morrison was not asked about that.

A school board in Virginia is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review its transgender bathroom ban after rulings by lower courts that the policy is unconstitutional and had discriminated against former student Gavin Grimm.

Eritreas government is rejecting as outrageous lies a story by The Associated Press in which witnesses describe a massacre of several hundred people carried out by Eritrean soldiers in Ethiopias Tigray region.

The former Trump Plaza casino was imploded after falling into such disrepair that chunks of the building began peeling off and crashing to the ground.

Less than a week after a fire tore through Hole in the Wall Gang camp for seriously ill children in Connecticut, almost $3 million has been raised to help rebuild the facility that was founded by the late actor Paul Newman.

A Honduran boy drowned as he attempted to cross the Rio Grande dividing Mexico and the United States, Mexican immigration officials said Thursday.

The United States is prepared to talk to Iran about both countries returning to compliance with a 2015 deal that aims to stop Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told European allies on Thursday.

The white Ohio police officer who killed 13yearold Tyre King argued in a federal court filing Wednesday that he used reasonable force and race wasn't a factor in the shooting of the Black teenager.

Venezuelas president said Wednesday he is open to dialogue with the new U.S. administration on calming tensions between the two governments and easing his nation's economic crisis, even while doubling down with fresh accusations that six American oil exec...

Gates said a faux meat plan for “the poorest 80 countries” would not be viable, noting that “we’ll have to use animal genetics to dramatically raise the amount of meat per emissions for them.”

Japan rolls out its COVID19 vaccination campaign Wednesday after the government gave belated first approval to a shot codeveloped by Pfizer Inc. that the U.S. and many other countries started using two months ago.

Attorneys alleging excessive force involving Atlanta police officers in two highprofile cases, including the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks, want a special prosecutor appointed after the local district attorney argued her office shouldnt be involved in...

Former President Gustavo Noboa, who restored some stability to Ecuador during a profound economic crisis that produced political turmoil at the beginning of the century, died Tuesday in the U.S. following surgery for a brain tumor. He was 83.

A man accused of attacking a South Carolina couple inside their home ended up dead after being bludgeoned to the floor by the 82yearold husband, authorities said Tuesday.

Russian state prosecutors on Tuesday asked a court to fine Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny 950,000 roubles ($13,000) for slandering a World War Two veteran, a charge he calls politically motivated.