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Ghislaine Maxwell, the girlfriend who helped Jeffrey Epstein operate a global sex trafficking operation, invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer questions from House lawmakers in a deposition on Monday.

Team USA's women's halfpipe snowboarding team defended skier Hunter Hess on Monday, a day after President Trump criticized the athlete for saying he didn't want to "represent everything that's going on in the U.S."

The operator of roughly 180 Eddie Bauer stores across the U.S. and Canada has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, blaming declining sales and a litany of other industry headwinds.

Cuba is running out of jet fuel as President Trump wields tariff threats to pressure other nations into cutting off the communist island's energy supplies.

The Vatican has approved for a second time the beatification of Archbishop Fulton Sheen, a 1950s radio and TV preacher whose road to sainthood was blocked by a dispute over his remains and his handling of clergy sex abuse cases.

About 6,000 public schoolteachers in San Francisco went on strike Monday, the city's first such walkout in nearly 50 years.

A trial focused on the dangers of child sexual exploitation on social media and whether Meta misrepresented the safety of its platforms began Monday in New Mexico with opening statements.

Rebels backed by the Islamic State group killed at least 20 people in an attack over the weekend on a village in eastern Congo, the military said Monday.

Morgan McSweeney, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer's chief of staff, resigned on Monday following controversy surrounding his involvement in the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the United Kingdom's ambassador to the United States.

President Trump plans to convene the first meeting of his Board of Peace this month in Washington to raise money for the reconstruction of Gaza.