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BANGOR, Maine (AP) – The State Department is honoring a former diplomat for bravery when fighting broke out in the capital of the Republic of Congo during a civil war.
William Rowland, who retired in July after 25 years as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service, is being recognized …
LONDON (AP) – Google will pay publishers $1 billion over the next three years for their content, the company’s latest effort to defuse tensions over its dominance of the news industry.
The company said Thursday that it has signed agreements for its news partnership program with nearly 200 publications …
ROME (AP) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vatican officials discussed religious freedom and their differences over China on Thursday, a day after tensions over the Holy See’s outreach to Beijing spilled out in public.
Pompeo spent 45 minutes in the Apostolic Palace with his Vatican counterpart, Cardinal …
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) – Congolese Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Denis Mukwege says an international criminal tribunal is urgently needed to prosecute mass atrocities, including widespread sexual violence, that continue to go unpunished in his country.
Crimes against humanity, war crimes, and even crimes of genocide are committed with impunity …
Twitter said it removed around 130 accounts apparently originating in Iran that were trying to “disrupt the public conversation” on the platform during the first U.S. presidential debate this week.
The social media company announced Wednesday evening that it purged the accounts the night before after being alerted by the …
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) – The next representative of Washington’s 10th congressional district will be a Democratic woman, with voters deciding between two candidates who would each represent a first for the state if elected.
Former Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland would be the first Black member of the state’s congressional delegation, …
The number of U.S. military members who took their own life was down slightly in 2019 compared to the previous two years, Pentagon officials said during the release of the Department of Defense Annual Suicide Report, amid concerns the number may have turned up in the trying first …
Hydroxychloroquine, the drug President Trump said he was taking to ward off the novel coronavirus, does not reduce transmission of the contagious disease it causes, new research showed Wednesday.
A study published in the JAMA Internal Medicine journal found the controversial anti-malarial drug hyped by the president earlier during the …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – From a filthy cell in Saudi Arabia, the Ethiopian migrant spoke on a smuggled phone, fearing to give his name. Some 300 countrymen are detained with him, he said. And no one knows when Ethiopia’s government might bring them home.
“We are detained in a …
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump testing positive for the coronavirus (all times EDT):
8:55 a.m.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said Friday that he and his wife Jill “send our thoughts to President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump for a …