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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has cast Pope Leo XIV as a global ally on social justice, migration and reparations after meeting the Chicago-born pontiff at the Vatican

6:15 AM on Friday, May 29

Officials say the European Union will unlock 16.4 billion euros or around $19 billion in funds for Hungary after recently elected Prime Minister Péter Magyar enacted rapid reforms

5:32 AM on Friday, May 29

A Philippine anti-graft court has ordered the arrest of Senator Jinggoy Estrada over allegations of pocketing millions in a flood-control project

5:31 AM on Friday, May 29

Many for-profit residential facilities in the so-called troubled teen industry nationwide that claim to treat severe mental and behavioral health issues in children and teens are deftly tapping into taxpayer money meant for students with disabilities

5:29 AM on Friday, May 29

A residential treatment center in Missouri advertises to adoptive parents that it can help heal struggling children

4:00 AM on Friday, May 29

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is running for reelection after a tough first term

1:03 AM on Friday, May 29

President Vladimir Putin is facing a battlefield stalemate in Ukraine and growing war fatigue among Russians and appears ready to change the narrative around the conflict

12:34 AM on Friday, May 29

The Philippines' top diplomat says Southeast Asian leaders will hold a commemorative summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia in June

5:35 PM on Thursday, May 28

A court investigation found that a federal judge had an affair with a police officer, including having sex in chambers overheard by staff, but remains on the bench with a “private reprimand.”

4:36 PM on Thursday, May 28

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2:55 PM on Thursday, May 28

Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo denies an agreement with the U.S. for anti-drug trafficking operations in Guatemala

2:11 PM on Thursday, May 28

Protesters have clashed with armed federal immigration officers in front of a New Jersey detention center where advocates have asserted detainees are staging a hunger strike

11:39 AM on Thursday, May 28

Martina McBride, Morris Day, the Commodores and Young MC have all announced they will not perform at “The Great American State Fair” on Washington's National Mall

9:25 AM on Thursday, May 28

Democrat Gretchen Whitmer has backtracked on an earlier comment about running for president in 2028, saying she has “nothing to announce.”

8:07 AM on Thursday, May 28

Aid supplies have been rushed in to the center of Congo's Ebola outbreak where medical workers are struggling with equipment shortages, distrustful locals and armed groups

8:02 AM on Thursday, May 28

The top federal prosecutor in Chicago denies that his office has opened an investigation into E

12:10 AM on Thursday, May 28

French lawmakers have voted to repeal a 17th-century law that governed enslaved people in France's colonies

11:12 PM on Wednesday, May 27

Colombia is set to elect a new president and vice president in a vote Sunday seen as a referendum on President Gustavo Petro’s policies

1:30 PM on Monday, May 11