A United Nations-affiliated body is reviewing allegations Canada's human rights commission discriminated against Black and other employees and
June 26, 2024
James Lawson, a prominent civil rights leader whose advocacy of nonviolent protest influenced Martin Luther King Jr. and helped shape the 1960s movement to outlaw
June 26, 2024
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is heard questioning whether compromise between the left and right is possible in a conversation posted on social media
June 11, 2024
A new poll shows relatively few Americans say they’re fans of President Joe Biden’s work on the issue of student loans
June 11, 2024
Social media influencers and candidates in jail have won seats in the powerful European Parliament, with social media playing an outsized role in many elections
June 11, 2024
In the Philippines, where colonial rule under Spain and later the United States endured for nearly four centuries, June 12 is the real Independence Day
June 11, 2024
A group of House Democrats is warning about the far-right Project 2025 agenda for a second Trump White House
June 11, 2024
Fifty years ago, three of the justices Richard Nixon appointed to the Supreme Court joined in an 8-0 decision in the Watergate tapes case that effectively ended his presidency
June 11, 2024
In her first television interview since she was assaulted last week, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says "I am not quite myself," but will continue to work from her office
June 11, 2024
Animal rights activists pasted a cartoon image over a portrait of King Charles III at a London art gallery in the latest in a series of incidents at U.K. museums as campaigners use vandalism to publicize their causes
June 11, 2024
The far right racked up wins across much of Europe in the EU Parliamentary elections that just concluded
June 11, 2024
The next European Parliament will have more hard-right members than ever before, occupying close to a quarter of the 720 seats
June 11, 2024
The reported birth of a rare white buffalo calf in Yellowstone National Park fulfills a Lakota prophecy that portends better times
June 11, 2024
The pope has again used a highly disparaging word against gay people for which he had already apologised last month, ANSA news agency said on Tuesday.
June 11, 2024
Jay-Z is putting his weight behind an effort to fund private school vouchers in Philadelphia
June 11, 2024
When it comes to online scams and foreign disinformation, it pays to be female
June 12, 2024
Survivors and relatives of the victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre in Florida had hoped by now to have a permanent memorial place at the site
June 12, 2024
Defense attorneys have grilled the lead investigator in the case of a woman accused of leaving her Boston police officer boyfriend for dead in a snowbank about offensive and inappropriate texts he wrote about her
June 12, 2024
Delegates at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting have narrowly rejected a proposal to enshrine a ban on churches with women pastors in the denomination’s constitution
June 12, 2024
Republicans loyal to Donald Trump are largely echoing the former president’s claim that the Justice Department has treated President Joe Biden’s son with kid gloves while zealously prosecuting Trump
June 12, 2024
People purporting to be pro-Palestinian activists have hurled red paint at the homes of top leaders at the Brooklyn Museum, including its Jewish director
June 12, 2024
The mother of one of the four hostages rescued from Gaza by Israeli commandos last week described the surge of emotions that she and her
June 12, 2024
Oklahoma's highest court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by the last two known living survivors of the Tulsa race massacre in 1921 seeking reparations for the violence and
June 12, 2024
Two advocacy groups have asked a judge to unseal court records and preserve public access to hearings in the class action lawsuit against the federal Bureau of Prisons over the sexual abuse of incarcerated women at a now-shuttered California prison
June 12, 2024
California firefighter accused of sparking blazes in the state's wine country
GM to lay off about 1,700 workers at Kansas plant
Ireland drops plans for hate speech law, minister says
US not responsible for violence in Mexico's Sinaloa state, ambassador says
Russian strike on apartment block in Kharkiv injures 12
Tens of thousands of bees found living in a Maine family’s farmhouse
Sullivan expresses worry over escalating Israel-Lebanon tension, calls Hezbollah strike as justice served
No. 3 Ohio State looks ahead to Big Ten schedule after rolling through nonconference games
Garrett Greene throws two late TD passes and West Virginia beats Kansas 32-28
Dubois beats up Joshua to retain IBF heavyweight title with 5th-round knockout