Protests in Portland on Saturday drew anxiety and concern from law enforcement officials and residents.

After Breonna Taylor and now Amy Coney Barrett, this week was a harbinger of the chaos to come if Americans stop believing in our system of government.

Breonna Taylor's mother says her daughter was failed by a lack of adequate investigation into the fatal shooting by Louisville police officers.

COVID-19's spread in Florida jeopardizes Trump's reelection prospects in the crucial battleground state.

What sparked Hong Kong's mass protests last year — fear of extradition to mainland China — has become a dark reality for 12 Hong Kong families.

In Israel, the holiest period on the Jewish calendar has coincided with the world's first reimposed national coronavirus lockdown.

China's oppression of Muslims reaches beyond Xinjiang into Pakistan. Why does it stay quiet?

In Louisville, Ky., two police officers were recovering after being shot during protests after Breonna Taylor case grand jury returns. "Violence will only be a source of pain," the mayor says.

Tattep Ruangprapaikitseree and other young activists want to rein in the monarchy and its military allies who have ruled Thailand since a 2014 coup.

The death of Breonna Taylor nearly slipped into obscurity. But protesters made it a national cause celebre. On Wednesday, a grand jury indicted only one of three officers, and none for shooting Taylor inside her apartment in March.

Wednesday evening, the decision in Louisville, Ky., not to charge police officers with the death of Breonna Taylor prompted new outrage.

A Chinese fishing fleet of roughly 300 vessels has been scooping up sea life near the Galapagos Islands and is now moving south into Peruvian waters.

The median age of people with COVID-19 in the U.S. has declined, with adults in their 20s now accounting for more cases than people in any other age group.

Common, Kerry Washington, George Clooney, Viola Davis and others expressed anger and disbelief over Wednesday's grand jury decision in Breonna Taylor's case.

College reopenings around the country drove a coronavirus surge of about 3,000 new cases a day in the U.S., according to a draft study released this week.

China's forceful implementation of a new language policy in Inner Mongolia has drawn criticism, even from the Communist Party elite.

Door-knockers are finding a landscape changed by COVID-19. In Arizona they are lifelines for communities that could decide the presidential election.

As the federal government is cutting funding to states, municipalities like Lordsburg, N.M., are struggling with unemployment and a devastated tax base.

President Trump hit China unusually hard in a video address to a virtual United Nations General Assembly, with two audiences in mind: global and U.S. voters.

Deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. reach 200,000 as authorities across the country continue to struggle to curb its spread.

U.S. trade bans are spurring labor reforms in Malaysia, which produces two-thirds of the world's disposable gloves.

Hendrika Mayora Victoria Kelan is being hailed as one of the only transgender public officials in Indonesia. The Southeast Asian nation is ranked among the least tolerant countries for LGBT people and rights.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said new guidance that warned about the dangers of coronavirus transmission via aerosols was posted by mistake.

In 2016, Republicans blocked Obama's Supreme Court nominee, saying there was no recent precedent for confirming nominees in election years. That has changed.

Colombian lawmakers introduce a plan calling for the government to take control of the cocaine market, buying harvests and regulating sales.

Oregon wildfires leave California transplants homeless and facing rising housing costs.

Armed Black groups like the Minnesota Freedom Fighters work to protect the streets as calls for racial justice mount.

In new guidance, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the coronavirus spreads mainly through respiratory aerosols, small particles that apparently can remain suspended in the air and inhaled.

President Trump is urging the Senate to consider his upcoming nomination for the Supreme Court seat vacant after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death.

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The official death toll in Mexico quietly surpassed 70,000 this month, a figure topped only in the United States, Brazil and India.

Hillary Clinton, Kate McKinnon, Janet Mock, and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, honor Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday.

Democrats insist President Trump hold off on filling the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Republicans offer no commitment.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court and the first to become a pop culture icon.

President Trump and Joe Biden both campaigned in Minnesota on Friday, a longtime Democratic bastion that's now a battleground state.

As smoky skies blanket the West, researchers look a the lasting health impacts by studying a Montana town previously smothered by wildfire smoke.

'We thought we were eternal,' said the lucha libre star known as Olímpico. 'We never knew something like this could happen.'

Five men stayed behind, after dozens of guests and staffers were evacuated in the face of a massive wildfire, to save Breitenbush, a famed Oregon hot springs retreat.

New rules requiring U.S. Postal Service trucks to leave exactly on schedule went relatively unnoticed amid the public outcry over the removal of sorting machines across the country — but they were far more disruptive to mail delivery.

With seven weeks to go, Biden finds resistance from swing voters who think he's too liberal. Trump needs to motivate supporters uncertain about voting.

George Atiyeh fought to preserve Opal Creek forest, where he vanished during deadly Oregon wildfires

Joe Biden marks the start of Hispanic Heritage Month with Ricky Martin and Eva Longoria in a Florida visit aimed at boosting support among Latinos and veterans.

Detainees swept up in protest against Belarus president describe harrowing jailhouse abuse. Major rights group deems some of it torture.

President Trump hosts signing of agreements under which Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates recognize Israel, only the third and fourth Arab countries to do so.

These states will probably decide if Joe Biden or President Trump wins the election. And their absentee ballot laws could determine when we find out.

Slow mail service from Los Angeles was one finding of an L.A. Times survey of Postal Service reliability amid deep cuts imposed by the Trump administration.

The NIH has launched an investigation into the case of a patient who suffered spinal cord damage after joining AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine trial.

if allegations of his campaign finance misdeeds are correct, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy deserves Justice Department action.

Volunteers with horse trailers drive into Oregon wildfires, rounding up horses, cows, sheep, alpaca and other animals left behind by owners who had to evacuate.

With no end in sight to protests, the Belarus president turns to Putin for help. Will the Kremlin throw him a lifeline?

President Trump has a hard-line position on policing. Joe Biden urges reforms to limit the use of force but rejects calls to "defund" police departments.

U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad said Monday he will resign and leave Beijing by early October. No reason was given for Branstad's departure.

Making empathy central to his campaign, Joe Biden seeks a contrast with President Trump.

President Trump — who heads to California Monday for a briefing on wildfires — claimed, as he has each year, that bad forest management, not climate change, is to blame.

Arab states prefaced normalization with Israel on a deal giving Palestinians a state. But the United Arab Emirates' and Bahrain's moves change that.

Wildfire survivors try to salvage their belongings from the ashes of homes in Phoenix, Ore.

Oregonians use shovels, buckets and garden hoses on wildfires as Gov. Kate Brown seeks more firefighters from the federal government and other states.

A long-simmering dispute about shared water rights between Mexico and the United States erupts into open clashes.

Some have stayed to fight the rare, massive fires; others returned after evacuating to find homes, neighborhoods destroyed.

The case could have an effect on the outcome of the Nov. 3 presidential election in the key swing state.

"Mulan's" star sided with Hong Kong police over pro-democracy protesters last year. This week, it was revealed that Disney shot in a province known for persecution of Uighurs.

Bahrain joined the United Arab Emirates as the first Persian Gulf countries expressing willingness to end their long-standing refusal to recognize Israel.

Trump and Biden both visit the Flight 93 memorial at Shanksville, Pa., to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

E. Jean Carroll's defamation suit against the president has been bigfooted by the Justice Department, making the U.S., not Trump, the defendant.

China's crackdown on Hong Kong is purging teachers, rewriting textbooks and increasing pressure on schools over what to put in the minds of students. A new national security law has endangered freedom of thought and expression.

Like the winds that race down the mountainsides near Los Angeles each fall, gaining heat and fanning the flames as they go, the gales that struck Oregon over the weekend have turned small fires into infernos.

For some soldiers, news that Trump called the fallen "suckers" and "losers" confirms their belief that he disdains those who serve. Others dismiss it as the work of anti-Trump media.

Barely a month after the Beirut blast that killed nearly 200 people, a large fire erupted Thursday in the city's port.

Trump critics and experts on authoritarianism see an increasingly bleak future for America if voters don't come to terms with the president's behavior.

During Europe's 2015 migrant crisis, Germany took in more than 1 million newcomers, sparking a backlash by some. Five years on, tensions have eased.

Mexican rape victims and mothers of disappeared daughters seized control of a federal building last week.

Disney's live-action "Mulan" is courting controversy for crediting entities in the Xinjiang region linked to the government's "reeducation camps."

Top executives of nine drugmakers likely to produce the first coronavirus vaccines signed a pledge to boost public confidence in approved vaccines.

Up to 300,000 Philippine fishermen are unable to return to land due to COVID-19 restrictions and could soon be abandoned by bankrupt boat owners.

Muslims in the battleground state of Michigan see the ballot box and elected office as the key to their finally becoming heard.

Trump supporters, including some far-right extremists, hold rally and caravan

An American film crew member working at the Pinewood studio in the Dominican Republic was off the lot, location scouting, when mistakenly shot by police.

Trump launched an aggressive push to win back voters by asserting — dubiously — that a vaccine is weeks away, but even he got distracted from the message.

Trump's stoking fear about urban violence risks alienating many voters in the suburbs, home to a diverse range of ethnicities and political views.

Trump's racially charged Minnesota and Wisconsin TV ads focus on the violent aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd and the shooting of Jacob Blake.

Protesters march peacefully around Churchill Downs for Breonna Taylor, insisting "No justice, no Derby." Armed militias on both sides are also present.

Joey Gibson, leader of the far-right group Patriot Prayer, is demanding an apology from Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler for creating a "culture of lawlessness" that he said led to the death of follower Aaron "Jay" Danielson.

The coronavirus is eroding decades of slow but steady progress in building up Mexico's middle class. Economists say the damage will be long-lasting.

At least seven mountain lions have been captured in Santiago since nighttime curfews began.

The Paycheck Protection Program made it too easy for companies to take government aid and leave their workers unemployed, critics say.

In 1961, a Black 14-year-old boy was convicted of murdering a white teacher. Fifty-nine years passed before true justice was done.

After months of warning of a "rigged" election against him, President Trump now suggests his supporters vote by mail and then in person. Election officials say the practice would be illegal, and could lead to delays and disputes at polling places in November.

The Morgans and the Hanneses fly political colors on adjoining front yards that have remained a battlefield in the nation's culture wars.

U.S. officials tracking Russian disinformation operations say it clearly echoes the Trump campaign's efforts to undermine Biden.

Trump's most controversial ambassador pushes Serbia and Kosovo to White House summit, but the resulting deal ignores the biggest issues.

Employers add fewer jobs, and unemployment falls to 8.4% from 10.2% — more signs of a fitful economic recovery from the coronavirus.

Residents of Beirut hoping to rebuild homes and shops after the Aug. 4 blast are desperate for glass, even though fragments of it are everywhere.

Joe Biden visited the restive Wisconsin town on Thursday, two days after President Trump did, as their competing messages — racial justice versus 'law and order' — roil the presidential campaign.

Besides UAE, no other Arab nation has said it is willing to take the long-shunned leap to accept and recognize Israel as a legitimate Mideast neighbor.

Teachers and students have refused to comply with a new bilingual education program in Inner Mongolia. The state is cracking down in response.

Dozens of major hospitals may ignore an FDA decision allowing use of plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients in order to focus on a clinical trial.

The prevalence of depression symptoms in the U.S. has more than tripled in the COVID-19 era compared to the period before the pandemic.

About 45 people across the country sought refuge in churches shortly after President Trump took office. Most are still there.

When George Floyd was killed, Jesse Ugstad filmed his white mom, who did a one-person Black Lives Matter march in their small Minnesota village of under 700. The small act of protest spurred a reckoning.

Underfunded health departments say they lack the staff, money and tools to distribute, administer and track doses of COVID-19 vaccine for millions of people.