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The Public Security minister Sarath Weerasekera announced over the weekend that he had signed a Cabinet paper proposing the ban on Niqab.

A coalition of cities, counties and civil rights groups sued the U.S. Census Bureau last year to stop it from ending the 2020 census early out of fear a premature finish would undercount minority communities. Now, that coalition is attempting to block the...

The successful revival of sports radio personality Craig Carton's career just months after being released from prison has not gone unnoticed by at least one victim of his multimilliondollar fraud.

Florida lawmakers plunged deeper Monday into the politically fraught task of attempting to regulate social media and other Big Tech companies, which some Republicans accuse of bias against conservatives.

The University of the South in Tennessee is working to identify students who leveled racial epithets at members of the visiting Emmanuel College men's lacrosse team during a game.

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has tested positive for COVID19 and says she will selfquarantine until she has recovered from the virus.

PM K P Sharma Oli speaks on the current political situation, regional diplomacy and Nepal's relations with India in an exclusive interview to CNN-News18.

The United States plans to reinvigorate diplomatic efforts, alongside the United Nations and others, to end the war in Yemen, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told U. N. Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths, a State Department spokesperson said on Su...

An arrest warrant was issued for a woman who refused to wear a mask at a Texas bank, saying to a police officer: What are you going to do, arrest me?

Police in North Carolina evacuated local businesses Sunday after they found several suspected explosive devices near a Baptist church and a county building.

Security forces killed at least 22 anticoup protesters in the poor, industrial Hlaingthaya suburb of Myanmar's main city on Sunday after Chinesefinanced factories were set ablaze there, an advocacy group said.

AstraZeneca Plc on Sunday said it had conducted a review of people vaccinated with its COVID19 vaccine which has shown no evidence of an increased risk of blood clots.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning, saying it expects 18 to 24 inches (46-61 cm) of heavy, wet snow to fall in Denver and Boulder from Saturday afternoon through Sunday night.

Gunmen opened fire on a patrol of four state police officers in the northcentral Mexican state of Zacatecas, then poured gasoline on their patrol vehicle and burned the officers.

Hundreds of immigrant children and teenagers have been detained at a Border Patrol tent facility in packed conditions, with some sleeping on the floor because there aren't enough mats, according to nonprofit lawyers who conduct oversight of immigrant dete...

A woman and her children stranded for two nights in the northwestern Colorado wilderness were found Thursday by aircraft after the 1yearold daughter died, authorities said.