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Hong Kong grappling with future under national security law

Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam offered scant reassurance Tuesday over a new national security law that critics say undermines ...

Facebook, others block requests on Hong Kong user data

Social media platforms and messaging apps including Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, Google and Twitter say they will deny law ...

American student released after 486 days in Egyptian prison

An American medical student detained without trial in an Egyptian prison for nearly 500 days has been freed and returned to ...

Betts: Baseball didn't do good job with response to Floyd

Mookie Betts wasn’t moved by Major League Baseball’s response in the wake of George Floyd’s death in police custody, and the ...

'Senseless crime': The victims of July Fourth shootings

A 6-year-old computer whiz. A young mother working for a better home for her kids. An 8-year-old who loved to make dance ...

WNBA players to spotlight Breonna Taylor on jerseys

WNBA players will wear uniforms for the opening weekend of the season featuring Breonna Taylor's name when the league begins ...

Georgia Gov. authorizes Guard troops after 8-year-old killed

Georgia's governor on Monday declared a state of emergency and authorized the activation of up to 1,000 National Guard troops ...

The Latest: Trump to establish 'National Garden' of heroes

The Latest on President Donald Trump's July Fourth celebration at Mount Rushmore (all times local): 9:30 p.m.

Appeals court reverses Wisconsin voting restrictions rulings

A federal appeals court panel upheld a host of Republican-authored voting restrictions in Wisconsin on Monday, handing ...

Trump criticizes Redskins, Indians for weighing name changes

President Donald Trump on Monday criticized a pair of pro sports teams that are considering name changes in the wake of a ...

Reds' Garrett drops fears, speaks out about racial injustice

With so few Black players in the major leagues, Cincinnati Reds reliever Amir Garrett was afraid to talk openly about racial ...

A look at a Colorado Black man's death in police encounter

Amid the protests across the U.S. against excessive police force against people of color, Elijah McClain’s name has become ...

Kaepernick, ESPN team up for documentary series on his life

Colin Kaepernick will be featured in a documentary series produced by ESPN Films as part of a first-look deal with The Walt ...

Supreme Court upholds cellphone robocall ban

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a 1991 law that bars robocalls to cellphones. The case, argued by telephone in May because ...

Kenyans protest cop who allegedly killed man over sanitizer

Residents of a small town in western Kenya set fire to a police station and damaged several vehicles after a police officer ...

Protester killed on Seattle freeway was dedicated to cause

A person killed Saturday when a man who drove his car onto a closed Seattle freeway and into a crowd protesting police ...

India bans TikTok, other Chinese apps amid border standoff

Indian TikTok users awoke Tuesday to a notice from the popular short-video app saying the company was working to comply with ...

'Lift Every Voice and Sing' hymn ignites hope across nation

The Black national anthem was born more than a century ago, but the popular hymn within the African American community called ...

AP FACT CHECK: Trump falsely says 99% of virus cases benign

President Donald Trump is understating the danger of the coronavirus to people who get it, as more and more become infected ...

Democrats, Biden look to accelerate Southern political shift

From Mississippi retiring its state flag to local governments removing Confederate statues from public spaces, a bipartisan ...