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Holly Hunter has been entrusted with playing an array of realworld women, from tennis great Billie Jean King to a cheerleading mom gone astray to her latest role, a federal prosecutor caught in the maw of politics.

After John Lewis held an Atlantacentered congressional seat for 34 years, the next occupant may not be a member of Congress for even 34 days.

At least 28 people were killed on Wednesday when a gas tanker exploded in the central Nigerian state of Kogi and started a blaze, a road safety agency official said.

South Africans of all walks of life are dancing to Jerusalema, a rousing anthem to lift their spirits amid the battle against COVID19.

The head of Germany's military intelligence agency is being replaced as authorities step up efforts to root out rightwing extremists in the military, the defense ministry said Thursday.

In May and June, conservationists discovered the carcasses of 356 elephants in Botswana’s Okavango Panhandle. With no bullet holes and the tusks intact, the cause of death has remained a mystery, creating fears among some experts about the future of the m...

German airline Lufthansa says it will test the practice of offering onthespot coronavirus tests before boarding intercontinental flights in an attempt to find a way to get longhaul passengers flying again.

The Catholic Church in Germany is setting up a new system to compensate survivors of sexual abuse by clergy that will provide for payments of up to about 50,000 euros ($58,400) each.

Like many other events, an annual John Lennon tribute concert that takes place in his adopted city of New York on his Oct. 9 birthday has been forced online because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Democrats are launching a digital ad targeting Pennsylvanians voting by mail to explain how to correctly fill out and return the ballots, hoping to avert worried predictions that 100,000 votes or more could be invalidated because the ballots aren't put in...

One difference? People with the flu typically feel sickest during the first week of illness. With COVID-19, people may feel the worst during the second or third week, and they may be sicker for a longer period.

Undaunted by criticism, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is forging ahead with a series of events that have overtly political overtones ahead of the November presidential election.

Foreigners holding certain types of visas and residence permits will be permitted to return to China starting next week as the threat of coronavirus continues to recede.

Six months after Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by police in her Kentucky apartment, a grand jury delivered a longawaited answer about whether the officers would be punished. The jury on Wednesday did charge one of the officers, Brett Hankison, with thre...

Westpac, Australias secondlargest bank, agreed to pay a 1.3 billion Australian dollar ($919 million) fine for breaches of antimoney laundering and counterterrorism financing laws, the largest ever civil penalty in Australia, a financial crime regulator sa...

Trump administration officials repeatedly exerted political pressure in an unsuccessful effort to block the release of former national security adviser John Boltons tellall book, a career government records professional said in a court filing Wednesday.