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The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday refused to reverse its decision upholding much of the 2016 ethics conviction of former House Speaker Mike Hubbard, and the state attorney general said it's time for the oncepowerful Republican to report to prison.

Rapper Kanye West filed a lawsuit Friday demanding election officials place him on Wisconsins presidential ballot in November.

A riot broke out on Friday in the southern Swedish town of Malmo, where at least 300 people had gathered to protest against antiIslam activities, police said.

Three Maryland men presenting themselves as pastors targeted church members and other investors in a Ponzi scheme that defrauded victims out of more than $28 million, according to a federal indictment unsealed Friday.

A Chilean police special forces captain has been arrested on assault charges for the blinding of a woman hit by a tear gas canister during massive social protests that rocked the country in 2019.

U.S. prosecutors on Friday warned a codefendant of Steve Bannon, an architect of President Donald Trump's 2016 election, to avoid social media posts that could undermine a corruption trial tied to Trump's effort to build a wall along the Mexican border.

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:

The Canadian economy was devastated in the second quarter due to the coronavirus panedemic, according to figures released Friday, but there were signs of a slow recovery.

A Florida deputy has been suspended after placing an elderly woman who ran a stop sign in handcuffs, officials said this week.

Researchers for the first time have identified someone in the United States who was reinfected with the novel coronavirus, according to a study that has not yet been reviewed by outside experts.

The credibility of two of the nations leading public health agencies is under fire this week after controversial decisions that outside experts say smack of political pressure from President Donald Trump as he attempts to move past the devastating toll of...

On a deserted beachfront in a newly lockeddown Gaza, fishermen look impotently at the Mediterranean waters they can no longer access under two separate bans one by Israel and the other by Hamas police imposing COVID19 restrictions.

Peru will start testing coronavirus vaccines from China's Sinopharm and U.S. drugmaker Johnson & Johnson in September, researchers said, which should help the country gain faster access to inoculations once the vaccines are approved.

The life of a top Congolese doctor who won the Nobel Peace prize for his work treating war rape victims is in danger after a series of death threats, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday.

Pakistan's flooded financial capital of Karachi was plunged into chaos on Friday with power cuts, streets under water and cellphone outages caused by heavy rain as authorities said at least 23 people had been killed in downpours the previous day.

A Colombian businessman detained in Cape Verde in June was on a mission to Iran as a special envoy of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to negotiate fuel and humanitarian supplies at the time of his arrest, his lawyers told Reuters.