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President Donald Trump and his Senate allies are misrepresenting the facts about Supreme Court nominations as he prepares to push ahead with a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Whether people who live in territories controlled by the U.S. automatically become citizens under a constitutional amendment that secured citizenship for freed slaves was a major focus of arguments Wednesday in a federal appeals court in Denver in a case...

Alabama is the media favorite to win the Southeastern Conference title while Florida is the pick to win the Eastern Division.

The Republican Party headquarters in this former steel town was buzzing Saturday as supporters filed in to pick up Trump 2020 stickers and yard signs, including ones declaring: Your prolife vote matters."

Brazil's government on Wednesday said it was adding 43 more firefighters to a small force battling blazes that have charred a Belgiumsized swath of the world's largest tropical wetlands.

Mexican President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador said Wednesday that conservative protesters demanding his resignation are welcome to camp out in Mexico Citys main plaza outside his offices in the colonialera National Palace.

A top U.S. health official told a U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday that he expects COVID19 vaccinations to take place over many months and that most Americans could be vaccinated by July of 2021 at the latest.

A weakened Beta continued its slow trek across several Southern states on Wednesday, bringing rainfall to parts of Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi after having flooded homes and roadways in Texas.

Authorities in Madrid want to hire more doctors and get urgent help from Spains military and police to fight a second wave of coronavirus infections that might force them into expanding restrictions on free movement that are already controversial.

Rescuers are trying to free a pod of longfinned pilot whales stranded off the Australian island of Tasmania. Around 470 whales are in the pod, more than half of which have already died, in one of the world's biggest beachings.

Saudi Arabia will allow pilgrims residing inside the country to undertake the umrah pilgrimage beginning on Oct. 4, after a sevenmonth pause due to coronavirus concerns, state news agency SPA reported.

The University of California system unfairly admitted 64 "noncompetitive" students between 2013 and 2019, the California state auditor said in a report released on Tuesday that echoed a 2019 college admissions scandal involving at least eight schools acro...

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.

Tommy DeVito, a founding member of the 1960s Four Seasons band, has died from the coronavirus at the age of 92, NJ.com reported.

With the number of U.S. households counted topping 95%, there is no reason for a judge to order the U.S. Census Bureau to extend by a month the head count of every U.S. resident, government attorneys said in court papers Tuesday.

Shut in by quarantine measures for the new coronavirus, Carmen Borges shares her small apartment in Caracas with her hustand, two daughters and, of late, a squirrel pup rescued by a neighbor.