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India's lower house of Parliament is debating the worst Hindu-Muslim violence in decades in the Indian capital, with an angry opposition demanding a judicial probe and the resignation of the home minister for the police's failure to prevent fatalities
Federal investigators recently took the unusual step of wiretapping a retired supervisor in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Miami office as part of an inquiry into whether sensitive case information was leaked to attorneys for suspected drug traffickers in Colombia
Two subway trains have collided in the Mexico City Metro system, killing one person and injuring 41
Chicago has joined the ranks of cities around the world to scrap St. Patrick's Day parades over concerns about spreading the new coronavirus
Compromise legislation reflects angst in both parties about the way the surveillance powers have been used but also a reluctance to strip those powers entirely from the government's arsenal
Announcement signals a major escalation in the District of Columbia's response to the spread of the virus
Brian Mark Lemley accused of joining a white supremacist group and discussing violence at a gun rights rally in Virginia is seeking his pretrial release from federal custody
The virus and its wide-ranging effects on business have the subcontinent bracing for a downturn
Governors and other leaders across the US are stepping up bans on large public gatherings
The White House is also considering a host of more aggressive responses, including a declaration of a national disaster, to free up additional federal dollars and to address concerns that the administration's initial response to the pandemic was insufficient
The Trump administration this week expanded the use of video hearings for immigrant children, having dozens of them held in Houston appear before a judge based in Atlanta
The ruling enables the Trump administration to continue enforcing a policy that makes asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for US court hearings, despite lower court rulings that the policy probably is illegal
Lawmakers focus on immediate sick pay, unemployment benefits and other resources for America's workers hit by the crisis
A snapshot of voters in Michigan, Missouri and Mississippi, who they are and what matters to them, based on preliminary results from AP VoteCast, conducted for The Associated Press by NORC at the University of Chicago
Trump administration working on plans to delay the April 15 tax deadline for most individual taxpayers as well as small businesses because of virus
The twice-yearly conference usually brings about 100,000 to Salt Lake City over two days, but instead the speeches will only be broadcast via television and the internet
Fears over the spread of the virus have prompted the cancellation of a number of events around the country
Tests led by US government scientists show that the new coronavirus can live in the air for several hours and on some surfaces for up to three days
The report by the Fars news agency, believed to be close to Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, comes as President Hassan Rouhani took control of the country's much-criticized response to the virus and the COVID-19 illness it causes
Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault
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