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Progressive activists seek to expand sex education in schools across America to include topics such as sexual orientation and gender identity. Their proposed curriculum also... Read More The post Progressive Sex Education and the Battle for Our Children a...

Donald Trump paused briefly after the question and then called on another reporter without answering....

The U.S. customs move signals a bumpy path ahead for the financial hub as countries increasingly treat the territory as just another Chinese city....

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - An outbreak of COVID-19 in New Zealand's largest city has affected the last round of matches in Super Rugby Aotearoa. Sunday's scheduled match between the Blues and Crusaders, the newly-crowned champions, has been ca...

BEIRUT (AP) - Lebanon's judicial investigation of the Beirut port explosion started with political wrangling over the naming of a lead investigator, military threats to jail leakers and doubts over whether a panel appointed along sectarian lines could...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) - Luke Walton was trying to find the right words to motivate his players to finish the season strong. The Sacramento Kings had been eliminated from playoff contention, which was nothing new for the team with the NBA's longe...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia's president called on all citizens to turn the COVID-19 crisis into an advancement opportunity and pledged health care reforms in an address Friday ahead of the country's 75th anniversary of independence. Only h...

A look at what's happening around the majors today: HOME AT LAST Miami finally gets to play its pandemic-delayed opener at Marlins Park, which has a new look for 2020 thanks to cozier dimensions and a switch to artificial turf. Also, there will be a f...

CAIRO (AP) - The woman accosted Yasmeen Samir as she swam with her family at a pool in a resort on the North Coast, a stretch of Mediterranean beaches reserved for Egypt's upper echelons. The reason: Samir was wearing a burkini, a swimsuit worn by con...

Health care workers in Peru held a demonstration Thursday demanding better pay and working conditions as more of their colleagues become infected with the coronavirus.Members of medical workers' unions appealed for government help during a rally outsi...

By Abdul Qadir SediqiKABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan government has begun releasing the last Taliban prisoners from a final batch of 400 who the......

State TV says Iran's Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned a historic deal establishing full diplomatic relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, calling it a stab in the back to all Muslims....

Tensions are still running high in Ivory Coast's commercial capital, Abidjan, Friday, a day after police used tear gas to break up street protests against President Alassane Ouattara's controversial decision to seek a third term.At least one prote...

PRAGUE (Reuters) - The presidential election in Belarus must be repeated with the presence of foreign observers, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis......

PARIS (Reuters) - The French government has declared Paris and the Bouches-du-Rhone area around Marseille on the Mediterranean coast as "red" zones......

In 2016, Professor Laurence Tribe said it was "not settled" whether Ted Cruz was a "Natural Born Citizen."...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's Foreign Ministry strongly condemned a historic deal establishing full diplomatic relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, calling it a stab in the back to all Muslims, state TV reported Friday. Iran, in the min...

When the coronavirus pandemic hit California, for a few weeks the owner of Boyd Funeral Home in South Los Angeles declined to receive patients who had died from the virus....

LOS ANGELES (AP) - When people began dying from the coronavirus in the United States, for a few weeks funeral home owner Candy Boyd declined to receive the remains of such patients. There were too many unknowns, and Boyd didn't feel like her employees...

Aug. 7 - Aug. 13, 2020 This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in the North America region. The gallery was curated by photo editor Courtney Dittmar in New York. Follow AP visual...

Projections for water levels in two massive lakes in the U.S. West are expected to remain high enough to avert severe cuts in states that rely on the Colorado River....

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - The white rings that wrap around two massive lakes in the U.S. West are a stark reminder of how water levels are dropping and a warning that the 40 million people who rely on the Colorado River face a much drier future. Amid prolo...

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The white rings that wrap around two massive lakes in the U.S. West are a......

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Led by Mookie Betts hitting three homers in a game for a record-tying sixth time in......

SYDNEY — A man in his 20s has become the youngest person to die of the coronavirus in Australia. He......

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SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Pacific Gas and Electric promised regulators Thursday that it has learned from its mishandling of......

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday attacked Joe Biden for calling on governors to mandate that all......

SYDNEY - A man in his 20s has become the youngest person to die of the coronavirus in Australia. He was among 14 new deaths and 372 new infections reported by Victoria state health officials Friday in an outbreak centered in Melbourne, the second-largest ...

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) - An Australian survey shows a higher proportion of younger Olympians would be prepared to use games venues or medal podiums as a platform for demonstrations. The International Olympic Committee's Rule 50.2, which forbids demo...

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — An Australian survey shows a higher proportion of younger Olympians would be prepared to use games......

President Donald Trump is making clear why he opposes extra money for the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service....

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump frankly acknowledged Thursday that he's starving the U.S. Postal Service of money in order......

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has had a summer of muddled messaging and bad news in the coronavirus fight....

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California Gov. Gavin Newsom has had a summer of muddled messaging and bad news in the coronavirus fight, a trend crystallized this week by his delayed response to a data error that caused a backlog of nearly 300,000 virus test r...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has had a summer of muddled messaging and bad news in the......

Kamala Harris is legally eligible to serve as U.S. vice president or president....

CHICAGO (AP) — False claims that Kamala Harris is not legally eligible to serve as U.S. vice president or president......

When WUSA9's Impact team learned that a pandemic upended her long-awaited graduation, we sprung into action with a surprise that left her speechless....

NEW YORK (AP) — Speaking from the Senate floor for the first time, Kamala Harris expressed gratitude for a woman......

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's commerce ministry said on Friday it will launch a digital currency pilot program in some cities.These cities include......

One of the most powerful forces in Kamala Harris' political career is missing from her bid for the vice presidency....

NEW YORK (AP) — Speaking from the Senate floor for the first time, Kamala Harris expressed gratitude for a woman......

"I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am Black and proud. I am not the candidate of the women's movement in this country, although I am a woman, and equally proud of that... I am the candidate of the people of America."Those wer...

Mookie Betts hit three home runs in a game for the sixth time in his career, matching a major league record, and the Los Angeles Dodgers launched six long balls in all Thursday night during an 11-2 rout of the San Diego Padres....

Indonesia's only vaccine production company has injected the first volunteers with Chinese firm Sinovac's vaccine candidate in so-called phase 3 clinical trials....

Joe Biden is poised to unveil his vision for the modern-day Democratic Party in the first presidential nominating convention of the coronavirus era next week....

A judge says a Colorado woman accused of working with supporters of QAnon to have her son kidnapped from foster care can be put on trial....