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The Democraticcontrolled House on Friday approved a bill to decriminalize and tax marijuana at the federal level. The bill would reverse what supporters called a failed policy of criminalization of pot use and take steps to address racial disparities in e...

Norwegian deputy central bank governor Jon Nicolaisen announced on Friday he was resigning, saying his application for renewed security clearance had been rejected because he has a Chinese wife.

Dr Sardjono Utomo, a senior Indonesian doctor, admitted himself to his local hospital in East Java late Tuesday afternoon.

The U.S. Justice Department investigated whether a lawyer for Jared Kushner, the soninlaw of President Donald Trump, had been involved in a bribery scheme to win clemency for a man convicted of tax crimes, the New York Times said on Thursday.

Two firefighters were injured and residents of a rustic Southern California canyon were driven from their homes after a blaze broke out overnight at a singlefamily home and tore across some 4,000 acres of dry brush and wooded hillsides.

A blaze that ignited overnight in a singlefamily home injured two firefighters and forced residents of a rustic Southern California canyon to flee their homes on Thursday, as flames tore across some 4,000 acres of dry brush and wooded hillsides.

World equity benchmarks rose along with safe haven assets such as gold and U.S. Treasury bonds on Thursday as hopes for a vaccineled economic recovery offset warnings the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic could spike in the coming weeks.

Oil prices were steady on Thursday as producers including Saudi Arabia and Russia locked horns over the need to extend record production cuts set in place during the first wave of the COVID19 pandemic.

Advocates and lawyers anticipate a flurry of clemency action from President Donald Trump in the coming weeks that could test the limits of presidential pardon power.

The Pentagon has approved drawdown plans in Afghanistan that will still keep two larger bases in the country as officials carry out President Donald Trump's orders to slash troop levels to 2,500 by Jan. 15, the top U.S. general said on Wednesday.

Increasingly detached from reality, President Donald Trump stood before a White House lectern and delivered a 46minute diatribe against the election results that produced a win for Democrat Joe Biden, unspooling one misstatement after another to back his...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday said it was recommending shorter selfquarantine periods after potential exposure to the coronavirus of seven days with a negative test and 10 days without a test.

Armenia said on Wednesday it had dropped some of the martial law restrictions it imposed in September when war broke out between ethnic Armenians in the enclave of NagornoKarabakh and Azeri forces.

Celebrating Britain's swift approval of BioNtech and Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine as a benefit of Brexit is misplaced since the vaccine was itself a product of the European Union that Britain has left, German Health Minister Jens Spahn said.

Austria on Wednesday chose a middle way in its standoff with neighbouring countries on whether skiing over Christmas is safe, by letting resorts reopen on Christmas Eve but making ski holidays virtually impossible.

The European Union on Wednesday urged countries to reinforce their healthcare systems and coordinate restrictions on social gatherings ahead of the Christmas holiday season, to avoid a resurgence of COVID19 cases.