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The challenger's setback lead to Israel's third election in under a year

FCA allegedly paid millions in bribes to gain advantages in three labor deals

The Union later apologized 'unreservedly.'

The U.S. says they have seen no “concrete evidence” that Korea intends to denuclearize

When the Charter of the U.N. was signed in San Francisco in June 1945, it promised equal rights for all, but made no specific mention of children. Thirty years ago, the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted, recognizing for the first time that children have their own rights, distinct from adults.…

Amanda Kondrat'yev had faced up to a year in prison

The statue had stood at the Chatham County courthouse since 1907

One of the troubling questions at the center of the impeachment inquiry, at least for Republicans, has been the work that Hunter Biden did for Burisma, one of Ukraine’s largest gas companies, while his father was serving as Vice President. But the intensity of interest in Washington is only making it more difficult to resolve…

"I've had fights on set before"

Lizzo led the way, while Taylor Swift was shut out of Album of the Year

Authorities say Pugh double-sold or failed to deliver her children’s books to buyers

The moral of this story is never fall asleep in the art department.

The Sheriff’s office says the children, ages 3 and 5, were pronounced dead at the scene

Great whales absorb an average of 33 tons of CO2 each throughout their lives

A young woman who knows a window of opportunity when she sees one would like Santa Claus to treat her to a very lavish array of presents, which her father found amusing enough to share online where the internet most definitely agreed. This ten-year-old named Drew is ready to celebrate Christmas morning with the utmost…

Gordon Sondland, President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the European Union, took the public witness stand Wednesday in what could be one of the most consequential public hearings of Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into the 45th President of the United States. Sondland is the only one of the witnesses who has testified in the inquiry that has…

'What is the name of your favorite child?'

Simon Cheng says he was beaten and forced to confess while detained by Chinese agents in August

Five years from now, the U.S.’ already overburdened mental health system may be short as many as 15,600 psychiatrists as the growth in demand for their services outpaces supply, according to a 2017 report from the National Council for Behavioral Health. But some proponents say that, by then, an unlikely tool—artificial intelligence—may be ready to…

Yorgen Fenech was intercepted on a yacht leaving Malta

I tried to kill my father for years. To be fair, I was following his wishes. He’d made it clear that when he no longer recognized me, when he could no longer talk, when the nurses started treating him like a toddler, he didn’t want to live any longer. My father was 58 years old…

One of the problems with understanding the Ukraine impeachment proceedings is that while there is a one-sentence summary of what Trump did – he hijacked American foreign policy to attempt to extort an investigation of a political rival from a desperate and dependent American ally – there is no good and simple explanation of the…

Gordon Sondland, who gave a million dollars to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee and was later appointed ambassador to the European Union, has emerged as a key witness in the impeachment inquiry. He will testify before House investigators on Wednesday in a public hearing that is expected to end in fireworks. Since his 10-hour, closed-door…

Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party was criticized for misleading British voters on Tuesday night, after one of its political Twitter accounts masqueraded as a fact-checking service during an election debate. During the first TV debate ahead of the Dec. 12 election, between Johnson and the opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, the Conservative account @CCHQPress changed…

Photographer Bing Guan has been holed up for five days with protesters at Polytechnic University, scene of fierce anti-government unrest.