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Vice President Mike Pence will make an economic pitch to reelect U.S. President Donald Trump at a Republican National Convention that resumed on Wednesday under the shadow of protests over the police shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin.

A teenager was arrested and charged with homicide on Wednesday in connection with gunfire that killed two people and wounded a third during protests over the police shooting of a Black man in the Wisconsin city of Kenosha.

A teenager was arrested and charged with homicide on Wednesday in connection with gunfire that killed two people and wounded a third during protests over the police shooting of a Black man in the Wisconsin city of Kenosha.

The head of the Democratic Party in Minnesota denounced Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn on Wednesday for heavy spending on taxpayerfinanced mailings to his constituents and called for the House Ethics Committee to investigate.

Egypts election commission said Wednesday it would refer to prosecutors about 54 million people who did not vote in elections earlier this month for twothirds of the Senate, the upper and mainly powerless chamber of the countrys Parliament.

Troy University announced Wednesday that a university building will be renamed in honor of the late Congressman John Lewis who tried unsuccessfully to attend the thenall white school in the 1950s.

Thousands of Gulf Coast residents fled inland from an approaching storm deemed unsurvivable" by forecasters, heeding warnings from leaders in two states, but leaving some without help as available space in hotels and shelters filled quickly.

A 17yearold was arrested and charged with homicide on Wednesday in connection with gunfire that killed two people and wounded a third during protests over the police shooting of a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, officials said.

Hurricane Laura was expected to cause catastrophic damage and "unsurvivable storm surge" to the Gulf Coast near the Texas and Louisiana border after strengthening on Wednesday to a Category 4 storm, the National Hurricane Center said.

The United States marked the centennial of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote on Wednesday with celebrations of the "historic victory" as well as pleas by female politicians to honor the milestone by voting in November's pre...

In his invitation to the Russian capital's residents, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the post-registration research will last six months and involve 40,000 people.

At the beginning of the pandemic, Tiffany Cordaways biggest struggle was finding a place to shower. She worked two jobs in northern California, disinfecting medical equipment during the day and caring for an elderly couple overnight. When she finally cloc...

A Black conservative running for Congress in Utah is set to speak at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday. Burgess Owens is in a race that could test GOPs ability to recapture the suburban districts that powered 2018s blue wave and gave Democra...

At least 14 dead dolphins have washed up on the coast of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, where a Japanese ship ran aground last month and spilled more than 1,000 tons of fuel, environmental groups and experts said Wednesday.

China's BGI Genomics said on Wednesday its coronavirus testing kit has "relatively high accuracy", a day after Sweden said about 3,700 people received false positive results due to a fault in the company's product.

Hong Kong police arrested two opposition lawmakers on Wednesday over antigovernment protests in July last year, one of whom was suspected of rioting during an incident in which he was attacked by a mob.