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A day after President Trump commuted the prison sentence of his longtime confidante Roger Stone, former special counsel Robert Mueller III broke his silence to sharply defend the prosecution and his investigation into ties between Russia and Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

Less than two weeks under a new national security law enacted by Beijing, Hong Kong residents already feel a curtain of control falling over the city's realms of speech and thought.

President Trump has commuted the prison sentence of Roger Stone, a longtime advisor and Republican operative who was convicted of lying to Congress and trying to interfere with a witness during the Russia investigation.

COVID-19 claims the lives of Black and Latino Americans earlier than it does for whites. Nonwhite victims are typically a decade younger than whites, the CDC says.

TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, is under pressure from lawmakers, who see a potential national security threat.

Chief Justice Roberts sends a message that the Supreme Court is independent and not an ally of one party.

Under mounting pressure from scientists, the World Health Organization allowed that the coronavirus might float in the air and issued new guidelines recommending people avoid enclosed spaces with poor ventilation.

Coronavirus health and safety requirements could change the appeal of an airport that even locals visited on their days off. The pressure is felt across Asia, which had been the site of an airport expansion boom prior to the pandemic.

Students and faculty across the U.S. are pushing for colleges to "defund the police," but goals vary across campuses

As caseloads rose, the Trump administration kept saying that death rates were falling. But in Arizona, Texas and other hard-hit states, deaths are up.

Scientists are finding evidence that blood type may be a risk factor for COVID-19. In one study, people with Type A blood were more likely to be hospitalized.

COVID-19 is disproportionately killing Marshallese immigrants in states such as Arkansas, Washington and Oregon, even as their homeland remains free of the coronavirus.

Unlike earlier in the year, most hospitals are not proactively canceling elective surgeries, even in some places seeing spikes in coronavirus patients.

Immanuel Jarvis, GOP chair in Durham, N.C., sees President Trump as a friend of Black Americans and the media as an enemy.

As coronavirus spikes in Houston, refinery towns to the east that boomed before the pandemic now face business closures and layoffs.

Democratic Senate candidates in several key races announce huge fundraising totals that raise the party's hopes of retaking the chamber in November.

To healthcare workers on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis, encountering people who indignantly refuse face coverings can feel like a slap in the face.

President López Obrador uses his first official visit to talk trade with Trump. Can thornier issues be avoided?

Mexico's Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Donald Trump, who meet face to face for the first time Wednesday, have parallel — and dismal — records on human rights.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has long downplayed the coronavirus, says he has COVID-19. More than 65,000 Brazilians have died from the disease.

Drug rehabs across the U.S. have experienced coronavirus flare-ups or COVID-19-related financial problems, forcing them to close or limit operations.

Law professor Xu Zhangrun had already been suspended from teaching and put under house arrest after writing essays critical of President Xi Jinping.

After calling for the relocation of a Confederate statue at the University of Mississippi, students are now demanding administrators halt the project.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's first foreign trip stirs controversy on both sides of the border.

GOP lawmakers, Trump surrogates tread carefully on president's inflammatory remarks over the Fourth of July weekend, denounced by Democrats.

Gregorio Leon drove to the outskirts of Lexington, S.C., the night of Feb. 14, 2016, with a gun by his side and rage in his heart.

More than 200 researchers worldwide sign an open letter saying current guidance ignores evidence that the coronavirus readily spreads on microscopic particles known as aerosols that can hang in the air for long periods and float dozens of feet.

Texas became a national coronavirus hot spot this week but didn't close popular beaches like Galveston until Friday, when crowds still appeared.

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake was reported Friday afternoon at 5:18 p.m. Pacific time 15 miles from Hawaiian Beaches, Hawaii, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

July 4 speeches — by Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, John F. Kennedy — are reminders of what America's national purpose has been and should be.

Nationwide, police officers who kill unarmed Black people often are not charged, but Dallas County appears to be an outlier.

The Lebanese are used to eating plenty of meat, but the country's economic woes have made it a luxury as rampant inflation takes its toll.

If Chief Justice John Roberts can find a way to maintain the court's reputation and eliminate Roe, he will.

This Houston hospital tried to prepare for the second wave of COVID-19, but was already 80% full this week as a nurse and doctor fell ill.

Authorities suspect the assault was part of a fierce turf battle that has transformed industrial Guanajuato into one of Mexico's deadliest states.

Why has the U.S. done so much worse than Europe in controlling the coronavirus? Preferring medical miracles, Americans reject simple public health steps.

Hospitals in Texas and Arizona are straining, and caseloads are soaring nationwide, but Trump continues to downplay the coronavirus and advocate reopening.

The Chinese video-sharing app is booted from its biggest foreign market as India retaliates for a deadly border clash.

With COVID-19 cases rising in red states, Republican officials are caught between taking a hard line to tamp down the outbreak or staying consistent with Trump.

A newer strain of the coronavirus has a mutation that might make it more infectious, a team of scientists says. Other researchers disagree.

A court's surprisingly light sentences for seven Papuan activists highlights how far the Black Lives Matter protests have reverberated in Indonesia.

Activists say Gilead Sciences has signed agreements that could prevent the antiviral drug remdesivir from reaching dozens of hard-hit countries.

As the House and Senate prepare to leave Washington for a two-week break, action on national police reform seems increasingly unlikely.

On the anniversary of the former British colony's handover to Chinese rule, thousands defied tear gas and pepper pellets to protest the security law.

The DOE says that radioactive leakage from Runit Dome, a respository for U.S. atomic waste, is insignificant. Marshall Islands leaders are skeptical.

Researchers calculate that there were 122,300 more deaths in the U.S. in March, April and May this year than are typically seen during that three-month period.