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In an online video, the former vice president and potential 2020 presidential candidate addresses criticism by women who say his physical contact with them made them uncomfortable.

The McLennan County district attorney said he aims to “end this nightmare that we have been dealing with in this county.” Prosecutors were not able to win any convictions after indicting 155 bikers.

Catholic Church officials who have criticized the Philippine president’s deadly drug war say they are receiving threats and government surveillance.

As the spring sunshine brightens up, researchers caution: Don’t skimp on sun protection, especially on the sensitive eyelids.

Lightfoot, the city’s first black female mayor, told NPR that Chicago’s police department has “left many people feeling like the police are an illegitimate occupying force.”

The two actresses are the most high-profile faces of the alleged massive college admissions fraud that has sent shock waves through the U.S. higher education system.

As congressional lawmakers continue to turn up the heat on drugmakers, insurers and middlemen over the price of many medicines, one player says it will limit patients’ share of the cost of insulin.

In his new book, the literary scholar presents an absorbing, necessary look at the “Redemption” era, in which the hard-fought gains of African-Americans were rolled back by embittered Southern whites.

Attorney General William Barr plans to give Congress the Mueller report in mid-April, but with some redactions. Democrats insist they should get the full report and the fight could end up in court.

It’s the first court case for Najib related to broader allegations involving the misuse of billions of dollars. Much of that money was raised by the U.S. bank Goldman Sachs, which also faces charges.

Critics are raising questions about her comment that “most African ladies’ first sexual experience is rape.”

The punishments are part of Brunei’s penal code, first announced in 2013. While the new laws stipulate the death penalty for certain offenses, Brunei has not executed anyone in decades.

He had earlier promised to leave before April 28, but pressure from the military and continued demonstrations accelerated his departure.

The top-line conclusions are already out — the special counsel didn’t establish collusion or obstruction, according to the attorney general. But there might be so much more to learn.

A growing number of residents in New York City qualify for a first-in-the-nation program to provide free legal services to low-income tenants facing eviction.

The Super Rugby team said Wednesday it would consider changing its name after shootings at two Christchurch mosques last month, as a result of its brand’s association with religious war.

President Nicolás Maduro, through allies, is ratcheting up legal and political pressure on the opposition leader by removing his parliamentary immunity.

Scientists infected the cats with toxoplasmosis and later killed them. Bipartisan members of Congress complained about the practice, and the agency ended the program.

A federal court threw out the law enacted in Hot Springs, Ark., that applied to someone approaching a vehicle. The judge ruled the law violated the First Amendment’s protection on free speech.

The utility company is already on probation for its felony conviction related to a 2010 natural gas pipeline explosion.

Motorists will pay a flat daily fee to enter Manhattan south of 60th Street. The new program aims to reduce traffic gridlock while generating revenue for the city’s stressed transit system.

The woman told Secret Service agents she wanted to go to the pool. But she didn’t have a swimsuit. Then she said she wanted to attend a “United Nations” event. None was scheduled.

Tesla’s Model 3 is giving a jolt to Norway’s car market. Also in play: Norway’s lucrative incentives for owners of electric vehicles.

New York Times reporter Nicholas Casey was in Maracaibo, Venezuela, in March 2019 during a six-day power outage. “By the fourth day,” he says, “you started to hear shots getting fired in the street.”

Most beef cattle receive antibiotics in their feed to prevent liver abscesses while eating a high-energy diet. There’s growing pressure on feedlots to stop this — and some have. But it’s costly.

According to the indictment, Robin Hayes and associates promised “millions of dollars of contributions” for “official actions” favorable to the Global Bankers Insurance Group.

The Vermont senator’s campaign says it raised $18.2 million from more than 500,000 donors. Sen. Kamala Harris has raised $12 million, while South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg raised $7 million.

The Trump administration is sounding the alarm about “fake families” amid a surge of Central Americans crossing the southern border. Immigrant advocates say they’re just trying to make it to the U.S.

“That is a terrible, terrible thing to create an event that sends debris in an apogee that goes above the International Space Station,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said.

In theory no one should die of cholera. Yet 90,000 people die each year from the disease, which is surging at a historic pace in Yemen and surfacing in Mozambique in the wake of Cyclone Idai.

The LAPD has identified the suspect in rapper and entrepreneur Nipsey Hussle’s death as 29-year-old Eric Holder, a Los Angeles man. On Monday night, there was a stampede at a Nipsey Hussle vigil.

Is the 76-year-old former vice president too much a man of the last century? His basic vulnerability is being cast as a candidate of the past in a party selling itself as the party of the future.