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CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pledging users more enhanced privacy and other features when it comes to private messages. Skeptics say Facebook is solidifying power, in the guise of user service.

The Arizona Republican said she did not report the assault because “I didn’t trust the system at the time.” The revelation came during a hearing on sexual assault in the military.

The prime minister is facing accusations that he and his advisers tried to intervene inappropriately in a criminal prosecution of a powerful firm hailing from Trudeau’s home city of Montréal.

Cody Weddle, who has been covering the political unrest of President Nicolás Maduro’s administration, will soon be deported to the U.S. after spending more than 12 hours in custody.

It’s the Democrats’ latest attempt to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 from $7.25 by 2024. Amazon and several presidential candidates support the bill, though it faces high hurdles in the Senate.

The woman was walking a bicycle across the road when she was fatally struck by the SUV. The car had a human operator behind the wheel but was in computer control mode at the time of the crash.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez cites a report in the New Yorker about close ties between the Trump administration and the conservative cable news network.

A second federal judge has issued a court ruling against the administration’s plans to ask whether every person living in the country is a U.S. citizen in the 2020 census.

On Thursday, a federal judge will tell the president’s former campaign chairman how much time in prison he must serve and how much money he must pay for bank and tax fraud.

A ship ran aground more than a month ago, and a gash on its side is leaking oil. There’s growing outrage that the companies responsible are not taking action to stop the environmental destruction.

The 52-year-old singer was detained in Cook County, Ill., after a court hearing over unpaid child support. Earlier court documents showed he owes more than $160,000 in back child support payments.

Six digital wallets used by the Quadriga cryptocurrency exchange were expected to hold millions. But they were emptied out last April, “bringing the balances down to nil.”

A Tokyo court granted the ex-Chairman and CEO of Nissan bail after nearly four months in jail following his November arrest on charges of corruption.

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet cautioned that the growing global disparity in wealth, and access to resources and justice, poses risks.

President Trump has pushed tariffs to cut the trade gap. But the United States bought more from other countries than it sold to them last year, pushing the deficit to a level not seen since 2008.

Spain has recorded more than 255,000 Venezuelans living in the country, with estimates even higher, as families flee the South American country in deep crisis.

Hate groups are increasingly relying on flyers to spread their message without publicly revealing the identity of their members.

“People tend to overlook the rural areas,” says David Hochstetler, a high school senior in rural Michigan. “I think it’s kind of disappointing because some able students could get looked over.”

China’s government plays a large, powerful role in how its businesses operate — giving them preferential treatment over their rivals. That’s a big sticking point in U.S.-China trade talks.

President Trump’s former personal attorney has spent many hours meeting with members of Congress, but big gaps remain in the public understanding of what took place in 2016 and since.

Critics question claims by federal officials that CanaRX jeopardizes patient safety. Many U.S. companies, cities, counties and school districts rely on the firm to help employees get cheaper medicine.

A judge ruled there isn’t sufficient evidence proving Hoda Muthana and her toddler face imminent harm in Syria. It’s a setback for the ISIS bride who hoped to fight her citizenship claim from the U.S.

Three decades after Prozac arrived, consumers are getting a new kind of antidepressant. The medicine is based on the anesthetic ketamine, which has been used illicitly as a party drug.

Just days after the U.S.-North Korea summit ended in stalemate, satellite images show workers have been active at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station, a partially disassembled missile test facility.

The order instructs cabin staff to exclaim the slogan “after a slight pause and with much fervour.” It has drawn ridicule on social media where users are attacking the company’s flaws.

A brief cognitive test can detect signs of Alzheimer’s in older patients. Only half of primary care doctors routinely give one, despite coverage by Medicare as part of annual wellness visits.

Sacramento, Calif., is one of the first U.S. cities to have 5G wireless service, and its mayor sees 5G giving the city an edge in attracting businesses and autonomous-vehicle technology.

The billionaire businessman — who has been a Republican, a Democrat and an independent — is not running for president in a field growing more crowded by the day.

Gottlieb, who will resign in a month, stood out in the Trump administration for his efforts to regulate the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries. The reasons for his resignation are not yet clear.

Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the findings of the state’s independent criminal investigation into the police shooting death of Clark nearly a year ago.

The president announced he is removing preferential trade status for India because he says that country does not provide the U.S. with reasonable access to its own markets.

Park Superintendent Christine Lehnertz has been cleared of allegations of creating a hostile work environment in a report by the Inspector General of the Interior Department.

A year after the Swedish Academy faced a crisis, the body “no longer includes any members who are subject to conflict of interest or criminal investigations,” the Nobel Foundation says.

The documentary Leaving Neverland has revived allegations of sexual abuse against Michael Jackson. As early as 1993, young boys and their families were accusing the megastar.