U.S. President Donald Trump plans to tell voters that his Democratic rival Joe Biden would pursue the "most extreme set of proposals ever put forward by a major party nominee" when the president delivers his acceptance speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention.
Groups that had taken to Kenosha's streets with long guns earlier in the week were nowhere to be seen early Thursday following sombre protests and no widespread unrest for the first night since the weekend police shooting of Jacob Blake.
Chinese authorities have arrested at least 10 people, including a Hong Kong pro-democracy activist, after its coast guard intercepted a speedboat believed to be heading to Taiwan, media reports said Thursday.
NBA players will continue the playoffs after games were postponed Wednesday following the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin, a source tells The Associated Press.
Britain's opposition Liberal Democrats elected Ed Davey as their fourth leader in five years on Thursday, with the former minister pledging to rebuild a party that has been sapped of support and suffered losses at last year's election.
Russian police have announced a preliminary probe into the circumstances of the sudden illness of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who fell into a coma last week following a suspected poisoning.
Hockey analyst Kelly Hrudey wanted the NHL to respond in a meaningful way after NBA teams boycotted their playoff games Wednesday in the wake of the weekend shooting of a Black man by police in Wisconsin.
Coup leaders in Mali have released ousted president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita from detention, a junta official said on Thursday.
The UN children's agency says at least a third of children couldn't access remote learning when the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools, creating "a global education emergency."
Fox News host Tucker Carlson drew the ire of Twitter users on Wednesday when he spoke of the deadly violence that erupted the previous night in Kenosha, Wis., where police have accused a white teen of intentional homicide. Meanwhile, Facebook said it had taken down some militia pages that encouraged armed civilians to travel to Kenosha.
TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer has left the Chinese-owned video app firm just three months since joining, and only days since the company sued the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump over an executive order effectively banning it in the United States.
Donald Trump's convention message makes clear he sees fear of unrest as his ticket to a second term. It's an unusual sales pitch for an incumbent. Yet polls suggest Americans are, indeed, growing concerned about crime — with murders surging, and fiery protests. And he's trying to reap the political benefit.
Hurricane Laura made landfall early Thursday in southwestern Louisiana as one of the most powerful storms to hit the state, with forecasters warning it could push a massive wall of water nearly 65 kilometres inland from the sea.
On Wednesday, to protest the police shooting In Wisconsin of Jacob Blake in the back, NBA players refused to play in all three playoff games scheduled. It's an unprecedented move , one that will force the league to employ delicate diplomacy to get the season restarted.
The white supremacist who slaughtered 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Making their strongest statement yet in the fight against racial injustice, players from six NBA teams decided not to play post-season games on Wednesday in a boycott that quickly reverberated across other professional leagues.
