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The economic benefits that major slave-trading nations, including the United States, reaped for hundreds of years on the backs of unpaid labor could amount to tens of trillions of dollars

Lawrence “Larry” Ray obtained millions of dollars by subjecting his daughter’s ex-college roommates to forced labor and prostitution

Attorneys for Brazilian collector Gustavo Soter filed a complaint last week, declaring that he bought the painting in 2017 for $3.7 million but hadn’t been able to locate it

Tim Chapman is taking over as senior adviser at Pence’s Advancing American Freedom

Richard “Bigo” Barnett said he was looking for a bathroom inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when he unwittingly entered the former House speaker’s office

Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, 51, known as “The Engineer,” faces a minimum of 10 years in prison and a possible life sentence

The Navy said he deserted his post in San Diego, California, in March 2019

Education officials did not specify exactly what content the state found objectionable

The designation will allow the administration to hit Wagner, that has been aiding Russia’s military in its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, with tougher sanctions

Several testimonies addressed issues in addition to abuse, such as losing one’s culture and language

Only about 230,000 homes and other buildings had made provisions for this kind of natural disaster

Nearly 1,000 people are facing charges so far in the riot and the tally increases by the week

Experts say the guidance under tight time pressure could encourage ShotSpotter reviewers to err in favor of categorizing a sound as a gunshot

The leaders heard an impassioned plea for more military aid from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

The first fatal such incident in Alaska in 30 years underscored the risks of living alongside animals that can weigh more than 1,700 pounds

Warren argued that he was removed over his personal political positions on abortion and transgender issues

The report recommends changes so that it’s harder for something similar to happen in the future

The Obama and Trump campaigns and the massive email hack against Macron show how data science can influence democratic elections

In a video posted to Twitter, the ship appears to be either being towed by another vessel or in a resupply mode

The ruling required Trump and his attorney, Alina Habba, to pay nearly $938,000 to the defendants in the case

Congress, movement leaders say, must be warned against making any attempt to curtail the multiple anti-abortion laws imposed last year in a dozen states

Ukrainian officers and soldiers on the eastern front say it is impossible to liberate more Russian-occupied territory without German Leopards and American Abrams

A decade after one of Reddit’s co-founders committed suicide, a new generation of hacktivists are continuing his efforts to decentralize digital information

The US president was already facing a divided Congress, rampant inflation and investigations, when the crisis around his misplaced classified papers broke out

The Democrat has visited three dozen states and spent all or part of nearly 200 days in his home state of Delaware

It may set records for nonfiction, but no book in memory approaches the pace of the final Harry Potter novel

Public-sector workers, like police and teachers, had the highest unionization rates last year, at 33%