A lawyer for financier Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend on Tuesday asked a judge presiding over her sex crimes case to impose a gag order on lawyers and others to reduce prejudicial pretrial publicity and protect her chances of a fair trial.
Award-winning Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, who was last month convicted of libel in what was widely criticized as an attack on press freedom, on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to tax evasion, one of several other cases she and her online news site are facing.
At least nine people have been wounded in a shooting on Chicago's South Side, police said Tuesday.
Marine biologists spent several months tending to their injuries before releasing them off the coast of Portugal.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday offered sympathetic words to Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime companion of Jeffrey Epstein who stands accused of facilitating the abuse of girls by the now-deceased sex offender.
The coronavirus pandemic in the United States will probably 'get worse before it gets better,' U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Tuesday.
The U.S. Justice Department is accusing two Chinese hackers of stealing trade secrets from companies around the world and targeting firms developing a vaccine for COVID-19.
Myanmar's fallen human rights icon Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint will run for election again in November.
The mayor of the Russian Arctic city of Norilsk, who was charged with negligence last month over a major fuel spill in the region, resigned on Monday, the RIA news agency reported.
An armed man seized a long-distance bus and took people in it hostage in northwestern Ukraine on Tuesday, launching an hours-long standoff with police, Ukrainian authorities said.
A long-awaited report published Tuesday on Russian influence in British politics criticized the British government for its slow response to allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit referendum.
The University of Oxford's possible COVID-19 vaccine could be rolled out by the end of the year but there is no certainty, the lead developer of the vaccine said on Tuesday.
Scientists have identified 37 volcanic structures on Venus that appear to be recently active — and probably still are — painting the picture of a geologically dynamic planet and not a dormant world, as was previously thought.
Ousted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and some of his former allies went on trial on Tuesday on charges of leading a military coup that brought the autocrat to power in 1989.
European leaders clinched a deal after four days of negotiations on a coronavirus recovery fund early Tuesday. U.S. politicians will try to do the same, as many of the benefits for Americans from the earlier round of coronavirus aid begin to run out. Here's a look at what's happening around the world.
Lebanon's health minister says the financially troubled Mediterranean country, which has so far managed to contain the coronavirus, is sliding toward a critical stage with a new surge in infections after lockdown restrictions were lifted and the airport reopened.
