John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died. He was 80.
The U.S. Border Patrol's parent agency says it has fired four employees and suspended 38 others without pay for inappropriate social media activity following revelations of a secret Facebook group that mocked members of Congress and migrants.
The Rev. C.T. Vivian, an early and key adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who organized pivotal civil rights campaigns and spent decades advocating for justice and equality, died Friday at the age of 95.
Russian scientists are organizing their first major expedition to the Arctic in decades to study climate change, mining company Norilsk Nickel said on Thursday, weeks after a giant fuel leak at one of its power plants in Siberia.
A personal assistant was arrested Friday in the death of a 33-year-old tech entrepreneur who was found dismembered inside his luxury Manhattan condo. Police said the assistant is believed to have owed his boss a significant amount of money.
Michigan sought a pledge Friday from Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. to cover costs that would arise if oil were to leak from its dual pipelines that extend across a channel linking two of the Great Lakes.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday she is receiving chemotherapy for a recurrence of cancer, but has no plans to retire from the U.S. Supreme Court.
Former middle school principal Jamaal Bowman has toppled 16-term U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel in New York's Democratic primary in another upset victory for the party's insurgent wing.
After weeks of wrangling, the Pentagon on Friday will ban displays of the Confederate flag on U.S. military installations, in a carefully worded policy that doesn't mention the word ban or that specific flag.
The three white men charged with the murder of a Black jogger in south Georgia pleaded not guilty Friday morning in Chatham County Superior Court, in a case that spurred a national outcry after cellphone video of the shooting appeared on the internet.
European Union leaders acknowledged Friday they are about as far apart from reaching a deal on an unprecedented 1.85-trillion euro EU budget and virus recovery fund as the seating distance imposed upon them for health reasons at their summit.
India has become the third country in the world to record more than one million coronavirus cases, while the United States has reported more than 70,000 new cases in a single day, a record daily increase for the seventh time this month.
Captain Tom Moore, the 100-year-old who became a national hero in Britain by raising millions of pounds for health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, will become "Sir Tom" on Friday when he is knighted by Queen Elizabeth.
Federal officers deployed tear gas and fired less-lethal rounds into a crowd of protesters in Oregon, hours after the head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security visited Portland and called the demonstrators "violent anarchists."
Netflix added a flood of new subscribers amid the coronavirus pandemic and also offered clues to a possible successor for founding CEO Reed Hastings, who on Thursday named the company's chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, as co-CEO.
Twitter Inc. disclosed late on Thursday that hackers targeted about 130 accounts during the cyberattack this week, an incident in which profiles of many prominent personalities and organizations were compromised.
