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Relatives of a man fatally shot by police last month planned to hold a rally Wednesday where they were expected to press for criminal charges, a day after authorities released bodycam video of the shooting.

Kentuckys Black state attorney general choked up and held back tears Wednesday while explaining why no police officers are facing criminal charges directly related to Breonna Taylors death.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday finalized new conditions for its whistleblower bounty program, which will result in rewards being issued faster and some rewards rising in value, agency officials said.

When a baby arrives in the world, there is no reason it should be only the mom who takes care of it. Its important to have greater equality in sharing responsibilities, French President Emmanuel Macron said.

House Democrats are proposing a sweeping bill to curb presidential abuses, a pitch to voters weeks ahead of Election Day as they try to defeat President Donald Trump, capture the Senate from Republicans and keep their House majority.

Two Republicanled Senate committees issued a politically charged report Wednesday on the work Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's son did in Ukraine.

China's foreign ministry said on Wednesday foreigners with valid residence permits can enter the country without needing to reapply for visas from Sept. 28.

President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus has assumed his sixth term of office in an inauguration ceremony that wasn't announced in advance.

Israel on Wednesday reported a new record level of daily cases of coronavirus, shortly before government officials were to meet to discuss tightening a new nationwide lockdown.

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said it would be beyond the pale for IranianBritish aid worker Nazanin ZaghariRatcliffe to be returned to detention in Iran at this time.

The German hospital treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for poisoning says his condition improved enough for him to be released from the facility.

Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said on Wednesday he has secured a strong majority from lawmakers in order to form a new government and was seeking an audience with the king to formalise his appointment as prime minister.

Election officials in the battleground state of North Carolina on Tuesday said they will count any absentee ballots that arrive up to nine days after the Nov. 3 presidential election, as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.

Indonesia's President Joko Widodo used his first address to the United Nations General Assembly to warn on Wednesday that global stability and peace could be "destroyed" if growing geopolitical rivalries persist.

The study did not go into how many COVID-19 cases were “imported” – or from students who arrived on campuses – and how many were local transmissions.

One protester was killed in Cameroon as police and gendarmes put down protests against the veteran President Paul Biya, the country's main opposition party said on Tuesday, while accusing security forces of laying siege to their leader's home.