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TOKYO - Human rights and LGBT activists on Friday denounced a ruling by Japan's Supreme Court upholding a law that effectively requires transgender people to be sterilized before they can have their g...

CARACAS, Venezuela - Some U.S. diplomats in Venezuela headed for the Caracas airport early Friday amid a political power struggle between President Nicolas Maduro and an opposition leader who has decl...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren plans to release a proposal to impose a new “wealth tax” on Americans with net worths of $50 million or more, according to documents provided by her presidential camp...

DETROIT - Sweethearts - those chalky little candies with messages on them - won't be on store shelves this Valentine's Day.The New England Confectionary Co. - or Necco - had been making the popular ca...

WASHINGTON - A Senate committee has subpoenaed President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, his attorney said Thursday, and Cohen intends to comply with the interview demand related ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A splintered Senate swatted down competing Democratic and Republican plans for ending the 34-day partial government shutdown on Thursday, leaving President Donald Trump and Congress ...

If you have anything left on your bucket list, do it now, because the world is close to annihilation.That’s according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which gave its annual presentation...

With two declared leaders, unrest in the streets and foreign powers taking sides, Venezuelans awoke Thursday to an increasingly precarious political crisis — one that led the United Nations̵...

Italy has been ordered to pay compensation to Amanda Knox, an American former student who spent four years in jail for a murder she didn’t commit. Europe’s top human rights court ruled Thu...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said he is postponing his State of the Union address until the partial government shutdown ends, yielding after a weeklong showdown with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi....