The UN's special rapporteur on Eritrea on Wednesday demanded a swift, independent investigation into allegations that the country's troops attacked refugee camps in neighbouring Ethiopia and abducted Eritrean asylum seekers. Reporting to the United Nations...

Advocates are pushing for state legislation that would ban New York City and other municipalities from maintaining their own DNA databases.

Senate Democrats made their final pitch on Wednesday to the official who will decide whether language to increase the minimum wage can be included in their coronavirus relief bill. Staffers met with Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough on Wednesday...

The White House needs support from Republicans to win her confirmation, but it is unclear which ones might vote for her.

Freshly vaccinated against coronavirus, a group of Spanish pensioners headed to a theatre in central Madrid on Wednesday on their first trip out in nearly a year. Ahead of the outing, 98-year-old Milagro Fernandez painted her nails, curled her hair and...

To Democrats last year, he was the ultimate boogeyman: Louis DeJoy, the man they believed mounted a brazen campaign to slow down the mail and thwart Joe Biden's presidential hopes.