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A California parent was sentenced Wednesday to six weeks in prison and 250 hours of community service in connection with the sweeping college admissions scandal.

A Maryland high school English teacher who has worked to open up college education for her students has won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize, the Varkey Foundation announced Wednesday.

Alex Saab, a Colombian businessman close to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro extradited to Miami last month on money laundering charges, met with U.S. law enforcement years ago to provide information on Maduro's government, according to records in the...

The latest team of astronauts bound for the International Space Station, three from NASA and a German crewmate, suited up for a planned liftoff atop a SpaceX rocket on Wednesday, despite rain and clouds at the Florida launch site that forecasters predicte...

An official at a suburban Detroit branch of the United Auto Workers took $2 million from the union and spent it on cars, guns, luxury clothing and gambling, federal investigators said Wednesday.

After days of waiting in the choppy central Mediterranean, a charity rescue ship with 306 migrants aboard on Wednesday received permission by Italy to disembark the passengers just as a storm approached, the humanitarian organization said.

France registered 11,883 new cases on Wednesday, the second day in a row with a new case tally over 10,000.

Prosecutors in Costa Rica accused a group of government water authority officials Tuesday of helping a drug gang launder its proceeds using government public works contracts.

Ethiopias rival Tigray forces raped or gangraped local women after attacking a community in the Amhara region as they pushed toward the countrys capital, a new Amnesty International report says, opening a new front of horror in the yearlong war.

Florida's largest school district is dropping all mask mandates, allowing parents in all grades to decide whether their children should wear a face covering, the superintendent announced Tuesday.

Prosecutors in Las Vegas have filed additional felony charges against a 22yearold man accused of killing a local filmmaker sitting in a parked car outside a convenience store but missing customers inside during what authorities characterized as a random s...

Crafts vendors are returning to the streets, transport between provinces is gradually returning to normal and crowds once again line the seafront Malecon boulevard as night falls over the Cuban capital.

The U.S. State Department on Monday said it is deeply concerned about the deteriorating health of detained Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, who last year was sentenced to four years in prison over her reporting on the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan.

China removed term limits on the presidency in 2018, potentially keeping Xi at the apex of power for the rest of his life.

A bomb threat at Yale also the evacuation of several buildings as well as nearby businesses in New Haven, Connecticut.

World champion Anna Shcherbakova of Russia rallied back after a disappointing womens short program to win gold at the ISU Grand Prix in Italy on Saturday.