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A Black defendant's right to a fair trial would be harmed if the jury heard the case in a courtroom lined with portraits of white jurists, a northern Virginia judge has ruled.

White supremacists plotted to attack power stations in the southeastern U.S., and an Ohio teenager who allegedly shared the plan said he wanted the group to be operational on a fasttracked timeline if President Donald Trump were to lose his reelection bid...

A Florida women's prison has likely violated inmates' constitutional rights by failing to protect them from sexual abuse by staff, federal investigators announced Tuesday.

Relatives of a woman and her son shot dead by an offduty policeman in the Philippines called for justice at their wake on Tuesday amid public outrage over an incident that went viral on social media after it was caught on camera.

Israeli envoys arrived in Morocco on Tuesday to meet its king and hammer out an upgrade of ties that was forged by the White House in a parting foreign policy push by U.S. President Donald Trump.

South Korea on Tuesday moved to shut down all ski resorts and winter tourist spots in a bid to stop the novel coronavirus spreading as a third wave of the pandemic proves much tougher to contain in the densely populated region around the capital city.

The chair of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee said the recent decision to reduce doping punishments against Russia really angered and disappointed many people, including ourselves.

Rain unleased a surge of water that swept away most of a 21member group on a canyoning expedition in southern Mexico, killing at least four people and leaving three missing, authorities said Monday.

Michael Moose Cusack, a Chicagoarea man who helped inspire the Special Olympics movement and who won multiple medals at the athletic event over years, has died. He was 64.

A judge said Monday that she'll wait until January before deciding whether to give preliminary approval to a $641 million settlement in a lawsuit by Flint residents who were exposed to water contaminated with lead and bacteria.

The European Union geared up to launch mass vaccinations against COVID19 just after Christmas after the shot developed by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech cleared regulatory hurdles on Monday.

The United States on Monday unsealed criminal charges against a third alleged conspirator in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people, mostly Americans.

A draft law proposing to limit foreign shareholdings in Russian companies that offer online video streaming services to 20% could worsen the investment climate, a spokesperson for internet giant Yandex told Reuters on Monday.

Trump administration political appointees tried to block or change more than a dozen government reports that detailed scientific findings about the spread of the coronavirus, a House panel investigating the alleged interference said Monday.

Europe's medicines regulator on Monday approved the use of the COVID19 vaccine jointly developed by U.S. company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, putting Europe on course to start inoculations within a week.

Milorad Dodik, the Serb chairman of Bosnia's threeman interethnic presidency, was hospitalised on Sunday night for what doctors described as nausea and stomach pains, the Bosnian Serb agency Srna reported on Monday.