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A team of doctors treating Pakistan’s imprisoned former premier Imran Khan has reported “improvement” in his eyesight, his personal physician said, but added he could neither confirm nor deny the assessment as he had no access to the former premier

9:04 AM on Monday, February 16

The NAACP and allied groups are asking a judge to limit how the federal government uses voter data seized in an FBI raid near Atlanta

7:40 AM on Monday, February 16

Government offices, the stock market and schools are closed Monday in observance of Presidents Day, but most big retailers are open

7:40 AM on Monday, February 16

Germany is seeking to assure Lebanon that it will support the Lebanese government even after pulling out German troops deployed as part of U.N. peacekeepers along the Lebanon-Israel border when their mission ends later this year

6:09 AM on Monday, February 16

Former U.S. President Barack Obama has clarified comments he made about alien life on a podcast over the weekend

6:05 AM on Monday, February 16

Syrian authorities have turned back a group of Australian women and children after they left a camp in Syria housing people with alleged ties to Islamic State militants in an attempt to head back to their home country

3:58 AM on Monday, February 16

Myanmar’s military government ordered East Timor’s senior diplomat to leave the country after judicial authorities from the fellow Southeast Asian country accepted a criminal complaint against Myanmar's armed forces

1:41 AM on Monday, February 16

More than a decade before he became the country’s first president, George Washington was leading a critical campaign in the early days of the American Revolution

2:00 PM on Sunday, February 15

Demonstrators across the Czech Republic have backed President Petr Pavel in a dispute with the foreign minister over a Cabinet appointment

1:49 PM on Sunday, February 15

Lawmakers and the White House are offering no signs of compromise in their battle over oversight of federal immigration officers

12:35 PM on Sunday, February 15

More than 1,000 immigration agents have left Minnesota’s Twin Cities area and hundreds more will depart in the days ahead as part of the Trump administration’s drawdown of its immigration enforcement surge

11:04 AM on Sunday, February 15

Israel is beginning a land registration process in the occupied West Bank that critics say can shift large areas into state control

8:56 AM on Sunday, February 15

The U.S. military says it's boarded another sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean

7:46 AM on Sunday, February 15

Many political candidates pitch themselves as outsiders

8:00 AM on Saturday, February 14

Five European countries say Russia poisoned Alexei Navalny with a rare toxin linked to poison dart frogs

12:13 PM on Thursday, January 29