social affairs

CLEVELAND (AP) — The latest on a Cleveland grand jury's decision to not indict two police officers in the November 2014 shooting death of Tamir Rice (...

NEW YORK (AP) — Actors Sacha Baron Cohen and his wife, Isla Fisher, are donating $1 million to Save the Children and the International Rescue Committe...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Like consumers around the globe, Indians are flocking to the online marketplace in droves these days. But there's one unusual item fl...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Inuit hunter John Goodwin for decades has hunted oogruk, the bearded seal, a marine mammal prized for its meat, oil an...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused archrival Saudi Arabia Sunday of promoting poverty and terrorism by continuing to bomb Ye...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis issued a Christmas Day prayer that recent U.N.-backed peace processes for Syria and Libya will quickly end the suffer...

MOSCOW (AP) — A conservative priest who lost his high-level job at the Russian Orthodox Church assailed Russia's "immoral elites" Friday and predicted...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Only two states say their National Guard operations could provide facilities to house unaccompanied immigrant children following...

SANDRINGHAM, England (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II used her Christmas message Friday to proclaim that light can triumph over darkness in these perilous ti...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ben Carson's name and face adorn the walls of dozens of schools in the U.S. and a medical school in Nigeria. Mayors have handed him ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Christian faithful from around the world descended Thursday on the biblical city of Bethlehem for Christmas Eve celebratio...

KOH SAMUI, Thailand (AP) — A Thai court on Thursday sentenced two Myanmar migrants to death for the murder of two British backpackers on a resort isla...

BEIRUT (AP) — The three missiles fired on a public market in the northern Syrian town of Ariha took the morning shoppers by surprise. In a few moments...

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Released from prison after a presidential pardon for a sexual assault conviction, a popular Zambian singer has been charged with...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Support for legal abortion in the U.S. has edged up to its highest level in the past two years, with an Associated Press-GfK poll sh...

HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — A grand jury decided that neither sheriff's officials nor jailers committed a crime in the treatment of a black woman who died...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump labeled Democrat Hillary Clinton "disgusting" for using the restroom during a commerc...

BERLIN (AP) — Adolf Hitler enjoyed special treatment, including plentiful supplies of beer, during his time at Landsberg prison in Germany following a...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Using a savvy social media campaign, in-person pleas and pithy T-shirts, three Iowa high school students have successfully lob...

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenians held a referendum Sunday on whether to allow same-sex marriage and become the first former communist nation in E...