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The founder and CEO of an Iranian financial services firm accused of conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions against Iran was sentenced Thursday to nearly two years in federal prison.

A Minnesota judge on Thursday rejected prosecutors' request to put a 48hour hold on filings in the criminal cases of four Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd's death.

Oscarwinning filmmaker Roman Polanski returned to Poland, the country of his youth, and paid tribute on Thursday to a Polish couple who took him in and protected him when he was a child, saving him from the Holocaust.

Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia enthusiastically accepted an endorsement Thursday from Marjorie Taylor Greene, a congressional candidate who embraced QAnon conspiracy theories and espoused racist views in a series of online videos.

Residents packed a town hall in a tiny western Minnesota community to voice opposition to plans by a controversial Nordic heritage church that has been identified as a white supremacist group.

A Chinese drug developer is offering an experimental coronavirus vaccine to students going abroad in a strategy health experts say raises safety and ethical concerns.

A satellite TV channel run by Yemen's Houthi rebels broadcast the start of a longawaited prisoner exchange on Thursday between the country's warring sides, as three planes carrying freed Houthi prisoners touched down in the rebelheld capital of Sanaa.

Powered by strong support from avid fans, shares of South Koreas Big Hit Entertainment, the company that manages global pop sensation BTS, have soared in their trading debut in Seoul.

Looking to undermine rival Joe Biden 20 days before the election, President Donald Trumps campaign has seized on a tabloid story offering bizarre twists to a familiar line of attack: Bidens relationship with Ukraine. But the story in the New York Post rai...

Rapper and independent presidential candidate Kanye West tweeted bogus election results that he said showed hes ahead of President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the presidential race.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered North Carolina elections officials to update absentee voting rules to ensure that voters prove they have had someone witness their ballot.

Northern Ireland announced the strictest COVID19 restrictions seen in the United Kingdom since early summer on Wednesday, closing schools for two weeks, restaurants for four weeks and leading Ireland to respond by tightening curbs in bordering counties.

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett faced a second day of questions Wednesday from the Senate Judiciary Committee as Democrats kept up their focus on health care three weeks before the Nov. 3 presidential election.

Facing public skepticism about rushed COVID-19 vaccines, U.S. health officials are planning extra scrutiny of the first people vaccinated when shots become available an added safety layer experts call vital.

A Wisconsin judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked an order from Gov. Tony Evers administration limiting the number of people who can gather in bars, restaurants and other indoor places.

The European Union unveiled Wednesday new plans to help slow down global warming, including a strategy to tackle highly polluting methane gas emissions and a plan to renovate millions of old buildings around the 27nation bloc to make them more energy effi...