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A criminal justice bill passed by the Senate would give judges more discretion when sentencing some drug offenders and would boost prisoner rehabilitation efforts and was hailed by scores of conservative and liberal advocacy groups.

The Latest on the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy meeting (all times local):

European Union officials have agreed to ban some single-use plastics, such as disposable cutlery, plates and straws, in an effort to cut marine pollution.

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Greece violated a prohibition on discrimination by applying Islamic religious law to an inheritance dispute among members of the country’s Muslim minority.

An international aid group says more than half a million displaced people in war-torn Yemen face the 'double threat' of famine and freezing temperatures as winter sets in.

The British government is publishing long-awaited plans for a post-Brexit immigration system that will end free movement of European Union citizens to the U.K.

'Black Panther' star Danai Gurira has traveled to Zimbabwe to join a campaign aimed at protecting rhinos from poachers.

The Baltic region’s main news agency says ten former employees of the Estonian branch of Danske Bank have been arrested in connection with an ongoing probe into a major money laundering scandal that allegedly involved Russian money.

A gravelly voice rings out from the phone’s loudspeaker: 'Aren’t you scared of me?'