Virginia law requiring couples to disclose race is unconstitutional, judge says
A federal judge ruled that a Virginia law requiring couples to reveal their race in applying for a marriage license is unconstitutional. The lawsuit…
Continue ReadingA federal judge ruled that a Virginia law requiring couples to reveal their race in applying for a marriage license is unconstitutional. The lawsuit…
Continue ReadingThe U.S. is now calling for an immediate ceasefire in Turkey’s strikes against Kurds in Syria, and is sending Vice President Mike Pence to lead…
Continue ReadingEarlier this year I spent almost two months in northeast Syria covering what we thought was the final battle against ISIS. The so-called caliphate…
Continue ReadingAn Amber Alert has been expanded to surrounding states as authorities search for a 3-year-old girl last seen at a birthday party in Birmingham,…
Continue ReadingPope Francis’ chief bodyguard resigned Monday over a leak related to an ongoing financial investigation, the Vatican said. Domenico Giani, 57,…
Continue ReadingStudents at Georgia Southern University burned the books of a Cuban-American author on a grill following a lecture in which she argued with…
Continue ReadingThey live in different places, work at different universities and dedicate their careers to studying different topics. But there’s one thing at…
Continue ReadingWhen a crossing guard arrived at his corner last Thursday, some sort of commotion was happening. At first he thought it was an event put on by the…
Continue ReadingTwo firefighters in Utah are melting hearts after they let a child give them purple manicures to help keep her calm after a car accident. Battalion…
Continue ReadingA former Georgia police officer was found not guilty of murder Monday more than four years after he killed a naked, unarmed black man who was…
Continue ReadingThe situation in Syria has been rapidly deteriorating. Last week, the Trump administration ordered US troops to step aside from the border in…
Continue ReadingNine Catalan independence leaders have received lengthy prison sentences of between nine and 13 years for their part in a failed 2017 attempt to…
Continue ReadingIf you like movies, you will appreciate Monday’s Google Doodle celebrating the 218th birthday of Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau.…
Continue ReadingAn American-Israeli woman arrested at a Moscow airport with nine and a half grams of marijuana has found herself at the center of a diplomatic…
Continue ReadingHarry Dunn’s family wants the woman suspected of killing him in a crash to return to the UK. The mother and father of Dunn, the 19-year-old who…
Continue ReadingVandals threw red paint on statues of Christopher Columbus in San Francisco and Providence, Rhode Island, as people around the US prepared to…
Continue ReadingWhen Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban congratulated his “Polish friends” on their electoral victory on Sunday, it was at…
Continue ReadingAbandoned by the United States and facing a deepening Turkish military offensive, Kurdish forces near the northern Syrian border have struck a deal…
Continue ReadingMore charges have been brought against the gunman who allegedly barged into a wedding at a New Hampshire church and began shooting, wounding the…
Continue ReadingWe grow up learning all kinds of history about the founding of America, and one of the explorers taught in every classroom is Christopher Columbus.…
Continue ReadingEver since Donald Trump became president, critics have worried that his rudimentary knowledge of global affairs, erratic decisions and politicized…
Continue ReadingLike many people in New York, Hakki Akdeniz was taken aback when he heard about the brutal killing of four homeless people in the Chinatown…
Continue ReadingA major search and rescue operation is underway in Japan after deadly Typhoon Hagibis brought widespread flooding and landslides, destroying…
Continue ReadingToday is Columbus Day, though an increasing number of cities and states are updating the observance to Indigenous People’s Day. Here’s…
Continue ReadingChinese President Xi Jinping warned adversaries on Sunday that any attempt to split China will “end in crushed bodies and shattered…
Continue ReadingA 10-year-old girl died after she was thrown from a ride Saturday at the Deerfield Township Harvest Festival. The girl was ejected from a ride called…
Continue ReadingA man walked from an Indianapolis suburb to Wisconsin — a 351-mile journey — to have sex with a person he believed was the 14-year-old…
Continue ReadingA Dallas mother made her son go through unnecessary medical procedures throughout the first years of his life, court documents say. She was sentenced…
Continue ReadingA search party of about 100 people combed through the areas surrounding the University of Portland this weekend, hoping to find anything that might…
Continue ReadingA hip-hop festival in Hong Kong, which would have featured American artists Migos and Wiz Khalifa, is the latest event to be canceled due to the…
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