Protesters wade in the Cannon Ball River during a standoff with the police at Turtle Island north of the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, on Nov. 2, 2016.
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A trial is set to begin Monday in...
Balloons depicting Pope Francis are laid at the statue of John Paul II outside the Gemelli hospital where Pope Francis is hospitalized, in Rome on Feb. 24, 2025. Pope Francis, in critical condition in hospital with pneumonia, had a...
President Trump says he wants to close the U.S. Department of Education. Some Republicans appear torn about the department's fate.
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The fight over the U.S. Department of Education has begun, but the battle lines are a little blurry.
President...
Friedrich Merz, the candidate of the mainstream conservative Christian Democratic Union party, gestures while addressing supporters at the party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, on Sunday.
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BERLIN — Germany's conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory in a national...
Three recent female graduates have reportedly died in a car crash following a high school basketball game in Missouri.
On Friday, Feb. 21 at around 8 p.m. local time on the Highway 54 in Vernon County, the trio ages 18,...
