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More manatees have died already this year than in any other year in Florida's recorded history, primarily from starvation due to the loss of seagrass beds, state officials said.

The 84-year-old pope stepped out on the hospital balcony to lead his weekly prayer before hundreds of people.

The Taliban have regularly launched rockets and mortars at government forces across the countryside, with the jihadist Islamic State group (IS) carrying out similar strikes on the capital in 2020.

NFL linebacker Barkevious Mingo, who is currently with the Atlanta Falcons, has been arrested in Texas on a charge of indecency with a childsexual contact, police said Saturday.

A Southern California man has been arrested after being charged with joining the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol while trying to impersonate a member of the media.

They spilled out into their villages and lined the narrow country roads in some places four or five rows deep to wave, cheer, hold up banners and flutter flags as Englands team bus left its St. Georges Park training base one final time.

The head of Russia's state coronavirus task force says the number of deaths nationwide in June this year rose nearly 14% over June 2020, due to the spread of the delta variant that caused infections to soar and a record spike in deaths.

Two Seattle police officers who were in Washington, D.C., during the Jan. 6 insurrection were illegally trespassing on Capitol grounds while rioters stormed the building, but they lied about their actions, a police watchdog said in a report released Thurs...

President Joe Biden on Thursday strongly defended his decision to pull U.S. military forces out of Afghanistan, saying the Afghan people must decide their own future, rather than sacrificing another generation of Americans in an unwinnable war.

A federal indictment filed Thursday charges a 28yearold Chicago man in connection to the shooting of three undercover law enforcement officers earlier this week.

The dollar fell on Thursday from a threemonth high against a basket of peers, with the euro getting a boost as investors unwound bets on risky currencies and as concerns over the spread of COVID variants increased the demand for safe havens.

The latest infections took Sydney's total in this outbreak to nearly 400 since the first case was detected more than three weeks ago in a limousine driver who transported overseas airline crew.

A group seeking Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy's ouster has yet to gather enough signatures to force a recall election, nearly two years after getting started and with just over a year before the 2022 primary.

Egypts foreign minister said Wednesday he will urge the U.N. Security Council to require Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia to negotiate a binding agreement within six months on the contentious issue of water availability from the dam that the Ethiopians are build...

The United States said on Wednesday it expected a seventh round of indirect U.S.Iran talks on resuming compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal to take place "at the appropriate moment," but did not say when that might be.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken met virtually on Tuesday with Uyghur Muslims who were detained at camps in Chinas northwest Xinjiang region to hear about their experiences and seek advice on how best to pressure China to halt repression there.