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A new South Korean study claims paper straws hurt the environment more than plastic straws.

Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union to improve working conditions in the nation's fruit and vegetable fields and coined the phrase "Si, se puede!" that became a widespread rallying cry, has died. She was 96.

Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola's allies worked with operatives trying to recruit spoiler candidates into Alaska's Senate race to siphon votes from Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, according to a report.

Keisha Lance Bottoms talks a lot about the policies she would pursue as Georgia governor. The Democratic nominee is less likely to talk about the history she would make by winning the job.

The U.S. military on Tuesday bombed a boat in the Eastern Pacific that it said was involved in drug trafficking.

A planned six-day ceasefire in and around a Russia-occupied city in southern Ukraine held for its first day and night, officials said Wednesday, but Moscow and Kyiv battered each other elsewhere as they awaited a date for the next round of U.S.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday rebuffed the Justice Department's request to delay having to review and release foreign language material from the Epstein files.

Missiles hit Yemen's Aden International Airport on Wednesday, just hours after the Iran-backed Houthi rebels warned people to evacuate the area.

Tommy Robinson, the British anti-immigration activist, was found guilty Wednesday of harassing two British journalists.

A U.S. public affairs official calls Camp Humphreys the "center of gravity" of the Seoul-Washington alliance. That partnership, which has endured since the Korean War ended in 1953, has hit some turbulence of late.