The federal government has opened a cold case office in Anchorage, Alaska, to focus on missing Alaska Native and American Indian women.
After a week of protests and outrage over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin, thousands of participants gathered to commemorate the historic 1963 March on Washington on Friday.
The U.S. House's foreign affairs committee announced contempt proceedings against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday, citing his refusal to comply with a subpoena for records into his "transparently political misuse" of department resources.
The Russian navy conducted major war games near Alaska involving dozens of ships and aircraft, the military said Friday, the biggest such drills in the area since Soviet times.
A 40-year-old Irish hauler has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese men, women and boys found dead in the back of a refrigerated truck near London last year.
Two police officers deployed stun guns in failed attempts to stop Jacob Blake Jr. before one of the officers shot him multiple times in the back with a gun, the Wisconsin Department of Justice said on Friday, unveiling new details of its probe into the shooting.
Donald Trump is in a difficult spot with swing voters and trying to shift the race by rebranding his campaign rival. Will Americans really buy the idea of Joe Biden as a radical Marxist enabler? It's a novel sales pitch, based on an old political tactic. Canadians may recognize it from their own elections.
German doctors treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for a suspected poisoning say the dissident is still in an induced coma, but his condition is stable and his symptoms are improving.
Police sealed off parts of Indian Kashmir's main city Srinagar on Friday to stop Shia Muslims from staging processions during their mourning month of Muharram and detained at least 50 attendees, police said.
A polar bear attacked a camping site and killed a foreign national in the remote Svalbard Islands on Friday, authorities on an Arctic island said, adding the animal was killed.
The remnants of Hurricane Laura unleashed heavy rain and twisters hundreds of miles inland from a path of death and mangled buildings along the Gulf Coast, as forecasters warn of new dangers as the tropical weather blows toward the Eastern Seaboard this weekend.
The South Korean government ramped up efforts to end a strike by thousands of the country's doctors on Friday, as Seoul took the unprecedented step of restricting eateries in the capital in a bid to blunt a surge in coronavirus cases.
The tusks of a stoutly built plant-eating mammal relative that inhabited Antarctica 250 million years ago are providing the oldest-known evidence that animals resorted to hibernation-like states to get through lean times such as polar winters.
With the crisis in Belarus entering its fourth week, Russia faces a quandary — do nothing and risk an outcome it can't control and may not like. Or directly intervene and risk a nasty backlash. For the moment, President Vladimir Putin appears content to wait and watch.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest serving premier, is set to resign due to worsening health, ending a stint at the helm of the world's third-biggest economy during which he sought to revive growth, bolster defense and boost its global profile.
