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Elizabeth Neumann wrestled with the decision for weeks. She worried about the backlash, the impact it would have on her career, potential threats to her family.

Peru's Navy on Friday was carefully watching a fleet of around 250 Chinese fishing vessels that had sailed just outside the Andean country's waters, angering the domestic fishing industry and sparking a Twitter war between Washington and Beijing.

Lawmakers said Friday that the U.S. government needs to ban the import of products made with child or forced labor after an Associated Press investigation found widespread exploitation in the palm oil industry, from debt bondage to outright slavery.

A federal jury began deliberating Friday in the case of a selfproclaimed white nationalist accused of threatening to rape the wife of a man who was part of a racist group he felt was harassing him.

If youre on Medicare, dont run to the mailbox looking for a $200 prescription drug card courtesy of President Donald Trump.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a champion of gender equality, made history again on Friday as the first woman and first Jewish person to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol, in a ceremony marked by soaring music, tears and even pushups.

The lawyer representing a man accused of conspiring with associates of Rudy Giuliani to make illegal campaign contributions has asked a judge to let him quit the case, in part because his client hasn't paid his legal bills.

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The director of the Auschwitz Memorial appealed to Nigeria's president on Friday to pardon a 13yearold boy who was sentenced to 120 months of prison on blasphemy charges, even volunteering to serve part of the boy's sentence.

Breonna Taylor's family and their lawyers sharply criticized Kentucky's attorney general for the failure to bring charges against police officers in her death, calling Friday for him to release the transcripts of the grand jury proceeding while vowing to...

Brazil, which has the world's secondhighest coronavirus death toll, has decided to join the global COVID19 vaccine partnership known as COVAX and will earmark 2.5 billion reais ($454 million) for securing vaccines through it, President Jair Bolsonaro's of...

Israel tightened COVID19 lockdown measures on Friday and critics accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to curb protests against his handling of the health and economic crises.

The Latest on a grand jury's decision not to indict police officers on criminal charges directly related to Breonna Taylor's death: (all times EDT)

China has stepped up checks on frozen food imports and banned those from some foreign meat processing plants amid the global pandemic.

The honor of lying in state has been accorded fewer than three dozen times, mostly to presidents, vice presidents and members of Congress.

Joe Biden stood on the floor of a Wisconsin aluminum plant this week, shed the trappings of his decades in national politics and then took aim at the billionaire New Yorker he wants to evict from the Oval Office.