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None of 42 projects to repair damage from the 2015 collapse of a Brazilian dam is on track, according to a United Nations expert report published shortly before mining giant BHP hears if it will be pursued through English courts over the disaster.

Attorney General William Barr took aim at his own Justice Department on Wednesday night, criticizing prosecutors for behaving as headhunters" in their pursuit of prominent targets and politically charged cases.

If carbon emissions continue at current rates, so much mercury will leach from thawing permafrost that fish in the Yukon River could become dangerous to eat within a few decades, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature Communication...

A Pakistani ruling party parliamentarian has introduced legislation seeking to jail anyone who "ridicules or brings into disrepute or defames" the military, according to records posted on parliament's website on Wednesday.

The bills were cleared by the Lower House after SAD member and Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal resigned from the Narendra Modi government in protest.

An official said Wednesday that Mexico City suffered 20,535 excess deaths attributable to COVID19 between April and August, almost double the number reported in the official death toll of 11,318.

A settlement between the family of Breonna Taylor and the city of Louisville could bring wideranging reforms to how police officers live and work, changes that would represent a rare outcome in a police misconduct lawsuit.

Crew members of a Southern California dive boat told investigators they were not trained on emergency procedures before a fire broke out last year and killed 34 people.

The Odisha government on Wednesday said that it has asked district authorities to strengthen COVID care facilities at the local level, but did not put any ban on the movement of patients to Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. The government's clarification ca...

Devotees visiting the famous Chintpurni and Shiv Bari temples in Himachal Pradesh's Una district from outside the state no longer require a negative COVID-19 test report, an official said on Wednesday. The announcement comes a day after the Himachal...

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Two Michigan lawmakers sought Wednesday to expand the state's statute of limitations for some sexual assault cases to allow more time for accusers of the late sports doctor Robert Anderson to file lawsuits against the University of Michigan.

To draw attention to his demand, a teacher threatened to end his life by jumping off the fourth floor of MLA hostel here on Wednesday, but was rescued by the police after counselling amid high drama that lasted for more than two-and-a-half hours, an off...

SDMC Congress councillor Abhishek Dutt has proposed to name a stretch of road in south Delhi after Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput. The Andrews Ganj councillor in the BJP-led South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has sent the proposal to the civ...

During the deadliest days of the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, the bodies piled up at a Brooklyn funeral home and the stench that came with it at an alarming rate.

The Federal Reserve kept interest rates pinned near zero on Wednesday and promised to keep them there until inflation is on track to "moderately exceed" the U.S. central bank's 2% inflation target "for some time."