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The recent controversies embroiling some of Virginia’s top Democratic officials have the party reconsidering their leadership.

The parent company of the Hartford, Conn., newspaper has agreed to recognize a new union representing nearly 60 journalists. The move comes just four days after they petitioned to unionize.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services released new rules for officers to identify visa petitions in which spouses are minors. No minimum age requirement for such requests currently exists.

Leaders of the Senate Finance Committee sent letters to the Center for Public Interest, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department asking for information about meetings with Russians in 2015.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson said that lawyers and others in the case must refrain from statements that risk creating “material prejudice” but neither they nor Stone must keep completely silent.

Five civilians and the shooter were killed, officials said Friday. The incident occurred at the Henry Pratt Co., about 40 miles outside Chicago, where the man apparently was fired.

Amazon canceled plans for a New York City HQ after meeting stiff opposition over big tax breaks and other incentives. A California mayor refused to offer similar incentives but landed Google anyway.

When President Trump declared a national emergency on the Southern border on Friday, he claimed the move was routine — even as he acknowledged the administration is likely to face legal challenges.

Women’s rights groups have welcomed the declaration, but are concerned whether the new policies can impact the lives of the country’s women and girls.

An attorney for the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback tweeted that after discussions, the “parties have decided to resolve their pending grievances.” The terms are not public.

“I saw that you guys are speaking Spanish, which is very unheard of up here,” an agent told two women in a convenience store. The two friends were born in California and Texas.

The high court agreed to a speedy review of a lower court’s ruling that stopped Trump administration plans to use the census to ask whether every person living in the country is a U.S. citizen.

In Africa’s most populous country, current President Muhammadu Buhari is trying to hold on to his position, and opposition leader Atiku Abubakar is his fiercest challenger.

The advisory comes after anti-corruption protests exploded over allegations about billions of dollars in development money. Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise is refusing to resign.

Maria Ressa, the CEO of the news outlet Rappler, which has been critical of President Rodrigo Duterte, was arrested earlier this week and charged with violating the country’s cybercrime law.

Ko Ni pushed for reform of the country’s military-drafted constitution. A Muslim in the predominantly Buddhist country, he had just returned from a Jakarta visit to study interfaith peace.

Travis Kauffman, 31, was halfway through his run in the foothills outside Fort Collins, Colo., when he heard rustling behind him. He soon found himself in a struggle to survive.

A detective agency hired by the Covington Catholic school found students blameless in the standoff with a Native American man near the Lincoln Memorial that went viral on social media last month.

Almost-certain legal challenges and likely pushback from some within his own party await the president in the next phase of the ongoing national political battle over border security and immigration.

African-Americans still have the highest death rate and the lowest survival rate of any U.S. racial or ethnic group for most cancers. But the “cancer gap” between blacks and whites is shrinking.

A 1982 law empowers the secretary of defense to redirect military construction funds during a presidentially declared national emergency.

The suspect is a high-ranking officer in Russia’s military intelligence agency, Bellingcat says. The group accuses the Russian government of expunging documents to conceal the man’s identity.

Some Hollywood luminaries have criticized truncating the broadcast of awards for best cinematography, film editing, live action short, and makeup and hairstyling. Some parts will be shown later.

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said Thursday that top Justice Dept. officials discussed invoking the 25th Amendment. But his new book is about far more than that.

U.K. flower shop owners who rely on shipments from the Netherlands are concerned about how leaving the European Union without a withdrawal agreement will affect them.

A trophy hunting program aims to protect the national animal, a goat called the markhor. Local social media was full of protests. But there’s another side to the story.

The DNC plans to host 12 sanctioned debates during the 2020 primary cycle. The first one will be in June on back-to-back weekday nights. The format changes follow criticism from the 2016 campaign.

The prominent Republican lawyer, confirmed by the Senate Thursday, will lead the Justice Department for a second time. He first served as attorney general under George H.W. Bush in the early ’90s.

Inflation in Zimbabwe is sky-high — marked by ill-equipped hospitals and long lines for fuel. NPR talks with two doctors who say they don’t have the supplies to keep patients, and themselves, safe.