Author: Pauline Edwards

A group of House Democrats wants President Biden to declassify U.S. government documents about human rights abuses during Brazil's military dictatorship that lasted for more than two decades.

Michael Dewayne Smith shot two women dead in 2002.

Most Americans say democracy is important to the United States’s identity, but that the nation’s democratic system is not functioning well, according to a new poll. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found 76 percent of Americans said “a democratically elected government” is extremely or very important to the country’s identity. Only…

‘George, in my opinion, should have seen it coming.’

Rafa Nadal is in his final season before retirement.

Fans of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Kingdom Hearts now have a place to buy their pets cute gifts, but it will be expensive.

The raccoon attacked two people waiting in line for the SooperDooperLooper roller coaster during Hersheypark’s opening day Friday, according to reports.

Maisie Smith played Tiffany Butcher on EastEnders (Picture: BBC) Former EastEnders star Maisie Smith is starring in her first movie role, and we’ve got a first look of her in action. The star, who previously played Tiffany Butcher-Baker in the soap, is set to appear in gangster flick Bermondsey Tales: Fall Of The Roman Empire. The gritty movie set in South London tells of the downfall of a London criminal empire and follows crime boss Mick Roman, who is dying and leaving a series of unsuitable successors in his wake. Maisie, 22, will star as Chloe, who is going to be…

The Biden administration has canceled two planned oil purchases aimed at replenishing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), the Department of Energy confirmed Wednesday. The planned purchases would have secured 3 million barrels later this year, part of a broader goal to fully replenish the SPR by year’s end. The Energy Department had earlier announced the…

The Biden administration revealed a final regulation on Thursday designed to safeguard federal workers and make it more challenging to dismiss them, in an attempt to prevent former President Trump from drastically reducing the workforce if he is reelected. The regulation, released by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), explains that nonpartisan career civil servants with protected status…