KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandans were voting Thursday in a presidential election tainted by widespread violence that some fear could escalate as security forces try to stop supporters of leading opposition challenger Bobi Wine from monitoring polling sta...

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended his company’s ban of President Donald Trump in a philosophical Twitter thread that is his first public statement on the subject.When Trump incited his followers to storm the U.S. Capitol last week,...

MEXICO CITY — The Mexican government said Wednesday that it and 10 other countries in North and Central America are worried about the health risks of COVID-19 among migrants without proper documents.The statement by the 11-member Regional Conferenc...

Hong Kong police on Thursday arrested a lawyer and 10 others on suspicion of helping 12 Hong Kong activists try to flee the city, media reported.The fresh wave of arrests comes a week after 55 activists were apprehended in the largest move against Ho...

CAMEROON, Cameroon — The U.N. humanitarian chief is urging the United States to reverse its decision to declare Yemen’s Houthi rebels a terrorist group, warning that the designation will likely lead to "a large-scale famine on a scale that we hav...

RICHMOND, Va. — It was one of the worst bursts of gang violence Richmond had ever seen. At least 11 people were killed in a 45-day period in 1992, all at the hands of gang members who eliminated anyone they thought would get in the way of their gro...

LANSING, Mich. — Two years after leaving office, former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is facing charges of wilful neglect of duty in the Flint water crisis as prosecutors revisit how the city's water system was contaminated with lead during one of wors...

MIAMI — It was the aftermath of a failed coup against Hugo Chávez and Rep. Gregory Meeks was lounging at the Kennedy compound on Cape Cod with a young lawmaker from Venezuela with a bushy moustache named Nicolás Maduro.Photographs of the 2002 enc...

WASHINGTON — All through downtown Washington, the primary sound for several blocks was the beeping of forklifts unloading more fencing.There were no cars or scooters and seemingly no tourists Wednesday, just the occasional jogger and multiple const...

WASHINGTON — Now that President Donald Trump has been impeached by the House of Representatives a second time, keeping him from holding office again could be Congress' next step.Every House Democrat and 10 Republicans voted Wednesday to impeach Tru...

CANBERRA, Australia — A racing pigeon has survived an extraordinary 13,000-kilometre (8,000-mile) Pacific Ocean crossing from the United States to find a new home in Australia. Now authorities consider the bird a quarantine risk and plan to kill it...

WASHINGTON — His place in the history books rewritten, President Donald Trump endured his second impeachment largely alone and silent.For more than four years, Trump has dominated the national discourse like no one before him. Yet when his legacy w...

WASHINGTON — The scene in the U.S. Capitol seemed jarringly disconnected. Inside the House chamber, the nation's lawmakers spoke with solemnity about democracy, the rule of law and the words of Abraham Lincoln as they undertook a vote to remove the...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A Cambodian-American lawyer said Thursday she was being persecuted for her political opinion as she and dozens of other government critics charged with treason and other offences returned to court in a trial criticized by rig...

WASHINGTON — Potential threats and leads are pouring in to law enforcement agencies nationwide after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The challenge is now figuring out what's real and what's just noise.Investigators are combing through a mount...

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — About 200 migrants began walking up a highway toward the border with Guatemala late Wednesday, two days before a migrant caravan was scheduled to depart San Pedro Sula.Some 75 police officers dressed in riot gear waited a...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has been impeached by the House days before leaving office, becoming the first American president to be impeached twice.The previous three impeachments — those of Presidents Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton and Tru...

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pointedly did not rule out that he might eventually vote to convict the now twice-impeached President Donald Trump, but he also blocked a quick Senate impeachment trial.Minutes after the House vot...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House for a historic second time, charged with "incitement of insurrection" over the deadly mob siege of the U.S. Capitol in a swift and stunning collapse of his final days in office.Wit...

WUHAN, China — A global team of researchers arrived Thursday in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic was first detected to conduct a politically sensitive investigation into its origins amid uncertainty about whether Beijing might try to...