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A damaging love affair with the U.S. ends in heartbreak in 'Black American Refugee'

Tiffanie Drayton tells the story of coming to the U.S. as an immigrant child and discovering that no level of accomplishment would enable her to shake the burden of Blackness in this nation.

South Australian Premier Steven Marshall announces restrictions being eased in South Australia after a lie the discovery that a man misled contact tracers.

Australian State Cuts COVID Lockdown Short, Saying Man Lied To Contact Tracers

In South Australia, officials earlier this week imposed a strict coronavirus measures, but their decision was based in part on one man who misled health officials.

Anti-riot police officers face demonstrators during a protest against the obligation of green pass, in their attempt to reach Chigi Palace government office in Rome, Italy, on October 09, 2021.

Pelosi's trip to Rome was disrupted by violent anti-vaccine mandate protests

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had to be escorted from a Mass in Rome on Saturday after major protests against Italy's new vaccine mandates broke out.

President Biden signs the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act as he is surrounded by lawmakers and members of his Cabinet during a ceremony on the South Lawn at the White House on Monday.

Biden signs the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law

President Biden praised the bipartisanship work to craft and pass the bill. But Republicans who supported the measure continue to face blowback.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., is seen here speaking during the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas.

Post-Confederate law bars Jan. 6 speaker Rep. Cawthorn from office, challengers argue

The North Carolina Republican is accused of engaging in insurrection, which would make him ineligible for office under a provision in the 14th Amendment.

Tara Geraghty-Moats, from the U.S., soars through the air during a trial round at the Gundersen Nordic combined jumping event at the FIS Nordic Ski World Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany, on Feb. 27, 2021.

Nordic combined remains the only Winter Olympic sport women can't compete in

Organizers of the Beijing Olympics are touting greater gender equity at this year's Games, but Nordic combined remains the only event not open to women.

Visitors enjoy the ice rink in Red Square at the Moscow GUM State Department store with the Spasskaya Tower to the left and the Kremlin Wall in Moscow on Monday.

Russians scoff at Western fears of Ukraine invasion

More than half of respondents in recent polls in Russia say the U.S. is responsible for the current standoff over Ukraine.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman (left) and Russian deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov (right) pose for pictures as they attend security talks on soaring tensions over Ukraine, at the U.S. permanent Mission, in Geneva on Jan. 10.

Russia digs in on Ukraine never joining NATO, on a day of talks with the U.S.

"For us, it's absolutely mandatory to make sure that Ukraine never, never, ever becomes a member of NATO," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.

This combination of photos provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office in Minnesota shows, from left, former Minneapolis police officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao.

The federal trial begins for 3 other officers at the scene of George Floyd's murder

Former Minneapolis police officers Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng are charged with failing to provide medical care to George Floyd as Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck.

The cruise liner Crystal Symphony leaves the harbor in Charleston, S.C. , in 2013. A 2022 trip by the ship ended in a lawsuit-fueled detour.

A luxury cruise ship rerouted to the Bahamas over an arrest warrant for unpaid fuel

The Crystal Symphony was supposed to dock in Miami, but ended up in the Bahamas after a U.S. judge granted an order to seize the ship as part of a breach-of-contract lawsuit.

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