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Pete Buttigieg

The Latest: Buttigieg: It's clear Trump deserves impeachment

The Latest on a series of town halls with five 2020 Democratic presidential candidates (all times local): Midnight South ...

Impeachment, felons voting divides Democrats at CNN forums

California Sen. Kamala Harris joined the call for President Donald Trump's impeachment on Monday as five leading Democratic ...

Myanmar court rejects appeal of jailed Reuters reporters

Myanmar's Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the final appeal of two Reuters journalists and upheld seven-year prison ...

Migrants anxious after Mexican authorities raid caravan

Central American migrants hoping to reach the U.S. now carry the added anxiety of the pursued after Mexican police and ...

Tennessee lawmakers send governor 'triggered' abortion ban

A proposal that would effectively outlaw most abortions in Tennessee if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade is ...

Case dismissed for 3 students who protested border agents

Charges were dismissed against three students involved in a protest of U.S. Border Patrol agents at the University of Arizona ...

Mexican police detain hundreds of Central American migrants

Mexican police and immigration agents detained hundreds of Central American migrants Monday in the largest single raid on a ...

Democrats criticize GOP state rep for chats about spying

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and other state Democrats are criticizing a conservative state representative for appearing to ...

Customers videotaped at spa in Kraft case sue authorities

Nearly three dozen men and women have filed a federal class-action lawsuit accusing Florida authorities of unlawfully ...

Supreme Court to take up LGBT job discrimination cases

The Supreme Court is taking on a major test of LGBT rights in cases that look at whether federal civil rights law bans job ...

Sri Lanka blocks social media after Easter Sunday bombings

Sri Lankan authorities flicked the off switch on most social media after Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels killed ...

KATE SMITH

Flyers remove statue of late singer Kate Smith

The Philadelphia Flyers removed a statue of late singer Kate Smith outside NHL team's arena Sunday, two days after covering ...

Texas town reflects on dragging death ahead of execution

A technology company was almost ready to bring up to 300 new jobs to Jasper, Texas, but in the final stages of recent ...

Bahrain king reinstates citizenship of 551 amid mass trials

Bahrain's king on Sunday reinstated the citizenship of 551 people convicted and stripped of their nationality amid a series ...

Israeli election may have dimmed hopes for 2-state solution

Is the two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict dead? After Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu coasted to ...

Alaa Abdel-Fattah, Mona Seif

Egyptians vote on changes that would extend el-Sissi's rule

Egyptians cast their ballots Saturday on the first of three days of voting on constitutional amendments that would allow ...

Oregon county pays $100K over Blue Lives Matter flag

An Oregon county has agreed to pay $100,000 to a black employee who sued alleging she was harassed after asking that a Blue ...

United Methodists edge toward breakup over LGBT policies

There's at least one area of agreement among conservative, centrist and liberal leaders in the United Methodist Church: ...

Tim Anderson

Anderson sits out game, doesn't detail comments in fracas

Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson didn't go into detail Friday about what he said during a bench-clearing fracas with ...

Nicaraguans use Good Friday processions to protest

Good Friday religious processions in Nicaragua's capital took on a political tone as people seized a rare opportunity to ...