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January 11, 2021

Sweden sends 2 to prison for Chechen critic hammer assault

A Swedish court on Monday sentenced a man and a woman to 10 years and eight years in prison respectively for attempted murder ...

January 11, 2021

China denies coercive birth control measures in Xinjiang

A Chinese official on Monday denied Beijing has imposed coercive birth control measures among Muslim minority women, ...

January 11, 2021

Trump-supporting Christian leaders and their Sunday messages

Support for President Donald Trump has been consistently strong among evangelicals, with some professing that he has been the ...

January 11, 2021

Businesses rethink political donations after Capitol siege

Businesses are rethinking political contributions in the wake of the deadly Capitol siege by President Donald Trump’s ...

January 10, 2021

Warnock condemns Capitol rioters in post-election sermon

In his first sermon since being declared a winner in Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff election, the Rev. Raphael Warnock on ...

January 10, 2021

EXPLAINER: Can social media companies boot Trump? Yes

Social media companies decided this past week they had finally seen enough from President Donald Trump. Facebook and ...

January 10, 2021

Trump legacy on race shadowed by divisive rhetoric, actions

President Donald Trump repeatedly claimed in the final months of his presidency — and without a trace of irony — to have done ...

January 10, 2021

More arrests in Capitol riot as more video reveals brutality

Police charged more Capitol rioters on Saturday, including a man who carried off the House speaker’s lectern, as more graphic ...

January 10, 2021

What Biden's Cabinet picks say about how he plans to govern

Joe Biden promised that his presidency would mean a return to normalcy. His Cabinet picks help demonstrate how he plans to ...

January 10, 2021

Pope prays for dead in Capitol rioting, appeals for calm

Pope Francis said Sunday that he is praying for those who died in the U.S. Capitol rioting and has appealed for calm to ...

January 10, 2021

Trump to visit U.S.-Mexico border to laud border wall

President Donald Trump is expected to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border on Tuesday to highlight his administration's work on ...

January 10, 2021

Squelched by Twitter, Trump seeks new online megaphone

One Twitter wag joked about lights flickering on and off at the White House being Donald Trump signaling to his followers in ...

January 09, 2021

Arrested Zimbabwe journalist in prison isolation over COVID

A prominent Zimbabwean journalist charged with communicating falsehoods has been sent to prison isolation after it emerged ...

January 09, 2021

Georgia's GOP governor under fire after US Senate losses

Even though he wasn’t on the ballot, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has been painfully bruised by the 2020 elections. In a state ...

January 09, 2021

Videos show fatal shooting during rampage at the Capitol

The Air Force veteran killed during the storming of the Capitol was shot as she began to climb through the broken part of a ...

January 09, 2021

Twitter bans Trump, citing risk of violent incitement

Twitter banned President Donald Trump's account Friday, citing “the risk of further incitement of violence" following the ...

January 09, 2021

2 Seattle officers placed on leave in probe into Capitol mob

Seattle’s police chief says two city officers were apparently in Washington, D.C., Wednesday when a violent mob of President ...

January 09, 2021

French vaccine rollout slowed by red tape, focus on elderly

The few hours it took to give the first coronavirus vaccine shots to 14 residents of the John XXIII nursing home — named ...