BEIJING - The herder couldn't speak for long. His phone was being monitored, he said, as are those of many other Mongols around him.

"We have no way out. There's nothing we can do," said Gangbater, a herder in Xilingol League, a central part of China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, where mass protests broke out three weeks ago when the ...Read more

The shooting of Breonna Taylor by Louisville, Kentucky, police in March could easily have slipped into obscurity - one more deadly encounter between law enforcement and a Black American.

Instead, her name and image became nationally known during a summer of protests against racial injustice and excessive use of force, triggered by the May 25 ...Read more

SAN DIEGO - Community members tried unsuccessfully to stop the demolition of a 32-year-old mural painted by a renowned San Diego Chicano artist at Memorial Prep Middle School in the Logan Heights neighborhood.

The school building bearing the mural was torn down Wednesday afternoon despite a community member, Encanto resident Monica Bernal, ...Read more

TOKYO - One of the three women to snag a senior position under Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is already planning to challenge him for the ruling party leadership next year.

Veteran Seiko Noda, who last week was appointed executive acting secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, said that while it was time for a woman to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES - The longer the COVID-19 pandemic goes on, the younger its victims get.

A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the median age of people with COVID-19 in the U.S. has declined over the spring and summer, with Americans in their 20s now accounting for more cases than people in any other age group...Read more

President Donald Trump offered no kind words to Breonna Taylor's family Wednesday after Kentucky prosecutors announced they won't file any charges in the Black woman's death at the hands of police.

The president offered effusive praise for the chief prosecutor, though.

"I thought it was really brilliant," Trump said at the White House after he...Read more

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador - Tensions are rising along the Pacific coast of South America as a giant Chinese fishing fleet of roughly 300 vessels moves from the edge of the Galapagos marine preserve to the waters off Peru.

This week, President Donald Trump excoriated China on a variety of issues, ranging from the coronavirus to human rights, in a ...Read more

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump refused Wednesday to commit to giving up power should he lose the November race, adding to concerns that a contested election could lead to a constitutional crisis and a unique challenge to the nation's democracy.

Trailing the Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, in national and swing-state polls six weeks before ...Read more

WASHINGTON - When Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined the Supreme Court in 1993, she was its lone Democratic appointee, the first in 26 years. Her eight colleagues were named by the four Republican presidents from Richard Nixon to George H.W. Bush.

They were not all conservatives, however. Ginsburg voted regularly with John Paul Stevens and David H. ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Pebble Limited Partnership CEO Tom Collier has resigned following the release by an environmental group of secretly recorded videos of Collier and Ron Thiessen, president of Pebble parent company Northern Dynasty Minerals, discussing the company's relationship with Alaska politicians and regulators.

A statement released by ...Read more

China is continuing to invest in detention camps in Xinjiang, according to a new research report, findings that could bolster calls to punish Beijing over its human rights practices in the predominately Muslim region.

At least 61 suspected detention facilities showed signs of new construction between July 2019 and July 2020, the Australian ...Read more

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump will nominate a new inspector general for the intelligence community - a successor to the watchdog who triggered his impeachment earlier this year.

Trump's prospective nominee is Allen Robert Souza, who serves as principal deputy senior director for Intelligence Programs at the National Security Council and ...Read more

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump, trailing in public polling and lagging in fundraising, wants a new Supreme Court justice confirmed before the election to be able to break potential ties on the court over election litigation.

"In terms of time, we can go to January 20th, but I think it's better if you go before the election because I think ...Read more

Reopening colleges drove a coronavirus surge of about 3,000 new cases a day in the United States, according to a draft study released this week.

The study, done jointly by researchers at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Indiana University, the University of Washington and Davidson College, tracked cellphone data and matched it to ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A longtime Alaska Zoo resident alpaca named Caesar was killed by a wild brown bear that broke into the alpaca's enclosure.

The bear tunneled under the zoo's perimeter fence and broke through the cedar split rail fence around the enclosure before killing Caesar over the weekend, according to the zoo's executive director, Pat ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Emphasizing that California must stay at the forefront of the fight against climate change, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday issued an executive order to restrict new car sales in the state to only zero-emission vehicles by 2035 and threw his support behind a ban on the controversial use of hydraulic fracturing by oil ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - It's been six months since Florida began reporting the deaths of people from the coronavirus pandemic.

The list started with 17 deaths on March 23. The official numbers now: 13,618 Floridians who have died from COVID-19, plus another 164 nonresidents who died from the disease in the state.

The Florida Department of ...Read more