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Bob Dole’s frequent scowl concealed a dry, often caustic wit.

Former U.S. Sen. David Perdue will challenge Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp in 2022′s Republican primary for governor, according to reports by multiple news outlets Sunday.

Americans are remembering Bob Dole, a man who defied the odds in war, only to fall short of his ultimate goal in politics.

U.S. leaders and military veterans are mourning the loss of former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, a World War II veteran and former Republican presidential candidate who served in Congress for 36 years.

Bob Dole's political career began in 1950 with election to the Kansas Legislature.

A Norwegian Cruise Line ship with at least 10 passengers and crew members infected with COVID-19 has docked in New Orleans.

The Kennedy Center Honors is returning to tradition this year.

Elizabeth Dole has posted on social media that her husband, Republican political icon Bob Dole, has died at age 98.

Some anti-racist activists were beaten up as far-right former French TV pundit Eric Zemmour held his first campaign rally near Paris.

As the Supreme Court weighs the future of the landmark Roe v.

Angry villagers have burned army vehicles in protest after more than a dozen people were killed by soldiers who mistakenly believed some of them were militants in India’s remote northeast region along the border with Myanmar.

Pope Francis has offered comfort to migrants at a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.

The Biden administration has plenty of options to make good on its pledge to hit Russia financially if President Vladimir Putin sends troops into Ukraine.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the Pentagon intends to work better with private industry to develop high-tech systems and to strengthen relations with allies in the Indo-Pacific region in order to maintain a competitive edge over China,.

Britain’s government has tightened travel restrictions amid concerns about the spread of the omicron coronavirus variant.

Donald Trump’s new social media company and its special purpose acquisition company partner say the partner has agreements for $1 billion in capital from institutional investors.

Britain’s opposition Labour Party has raised complaints to police about Christmas parties held by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s staff in his office last year in breach of coronavirus restrictions.

Thousands of people have marched peacefully through the Dutch city of Utrecht to protest the government’s coronavirus lockdown measures.

Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin plan to speak in a video call Tuesday as tensions between the United States and Russia escalate over a Russian troop buildup on the Ukrainian border.

Thousands of protesters have gathered in Belgrade and other Serbian towns and villages to block roads and bridges despite police warnings and an intimidation campaign launched by authorities against the participants.

Stacey Abrams' 2022 Democratic campaign for Georgia governor is likely to be different than her narrow 2018 loss.

Valérie Pécresse, the head the Paris region and a former conservative minister, has been chosen to run in France’s presidential race for The Republicans party.

Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel has made what is likely her final appeal before leaving office next week for Germans to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Election officials in the West African nation of Gambia have started counting marble votes after polls closed for the first presidential election in decades that does not include former dictator Yahya Jammeh as a candidate.

German Chancellor-designate Olaf Scholz's center-left party has given its overwhelming approval to a deal to form a new government with environmentalist and pro-business parties.

The leaders of European right-wing populist parties say they will cooperate more closely at the European Union’s parliament in order to defend the sovereignty of their nations.

China’s Communist Party has taken American democracy to task, sharply criticizing a global democracy summit being hosted by President Joe Biden next week and extolling the virtues of its governing system.

Democrats are hoping that Congress is nearing the finish line in its seven-month trek on President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion social and environment package.

President Joe Biden has pledged to make it “very, very difficult” for Russia’s Vladimir Putin to take military action in Ukraine as U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russian planning is underway for a possible military offensive that could begin as soon as early 2022.

The House committee investigating the Jan_ 6 Capitol insurrection has postponed a deposition with a former Justice Department official Saturday until Dec_ 16 due to a “medical condition that precludes his participation."

The state of Nevada plans to fully cooperate with federal efforts to investigate the history of Native American boarding schools.

A federal correctional officer at a women’s prison in California has been charged with sexually abusing an inmate.

The New Jersey statehouse requirement for visitors to show proof of COVID-19 or a negative test is still in effect after Republican lawmakers defied it ahead of a voting session Thursday.

More than 6% of the Air National Guard and Reserve did not meet the deadline to get the COVID-19 vaccine, and could begin to face consequences if they don’t get the mandated shots or receive an exemption, the Air Force said Friday.

Prosecutors and retailers are pushing back on assertions by California’s governor and attorney general that they have enough tools to combat shoplifting and other retail thefts.

The chief of the National Guard has tested positive for COVID-19 after returning from an overseas trip to visit guard troops in Europe for Thanksgiving.

The phones of 11 U.S. State Department employees were hacked using technology from Israel’s NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire company.

Pennsylvania's high-stakes race for an open U.S. Senate seat is seeing candidates bringing big bank accounts and big-time connections from blue states.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin announces a number of new restrictions in a televised address.

Federal appeals judges are weighing whether former President Donald Trump can be held liable in a defamation case that concerns his response to a rape allegation.

Portugal’s interior minister has resigned after a series of gaffes and missteps that could have made him a political liability for his center-left Socialist Party ahead of elections for a new government on Jan. 30.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is asking the White House to cut back a big Medicare premium hike set to take effect in weeks and tied to a pricey Alzheimer’s drug whose benefits have been widely questioned.

Far-right activist Ammon Bundy says time he has spent campaigning to be Idaho's next governor should count toward his order to perform community service after being convicted of obstructing police during his arrest for trespassing at the state Capitol.

Zion National Park in Utah will soon require reservations to hike a famed trail perched on the edge of a red-rock cliff.

A troubled Chinese developer struggling under $310 billion in debt has warned it may run out of money to “perform its financial obligations."

The leading human rights group in Belarus says a court has sentenced a neighborhood activist to four years in prison for creating an “extremist group” on the messaging app Telegram.

President Joe Biden has at least one thing in common with thousands of parents and grandparents this winter: He’s picked up a cold from his young grandson.

The number of cases in Scotland increases to 29, including six linked to a Steps concert in Glasgow.

The Biden administration will not designate any country as a currency manipulator, but it did name China, Vietnam and Taiwan among the nations that have failed to live up to global agreements not to use their currencies to gain unfair trade advantages.

German authorities say they have received a request from Britain to approve the extradition of a suspected Russian spy who worked at the U.K.‘s Embassy in Berlin.

Gambians are getting ready to vote in a historic election that won't have former dictator Yahya Jammeh on the ballot.

Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer says he will be the acting leader of the conservative People’s Party and will seek to become Austria’s next chancellor.

Human Rights Watch says the killing of at least 65 protesters in Myanmar’s biggest city on March 14 this year was planned and premeditated

In his closing arguments, Attorney Jamal Alsaffar said the $31 million proposed by the federal government told him that it was “never interested in doing the right thing.”

President Biden will provide an update on the U.S. response to the latest COVID-19 variant Omicron as cases continue to spread around the world. This comes amid a crucial few weeks for the president as he tries to pass his social spending plan and a government shutdown looms. Chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes reports.

Here's the latest for Monday November 29th: COVID-19 omicron variant found in more countries; Flooding in Washington state; Major abortion rights case goes to Supreme Court; Jewish festival of Hannukah begins.

Arbaz Mullah's love story began, as romances often do, when he first laid eyes on the woman of his dreams, Shweta Kumbhar. The romance so angered relatives of Kumbhar, a Hindu, that they allegedly hired members of a hardline Hindu nationalist group to kill the 24-year-old Mullah, who was Muslim. (Nov. 29)

An industry expert believes the Grenfell cladding was among products to fail fire tests 13 years earlier.

The government backs Lissie Harper's campaign to jail those who kill on-duty police and 999 workers for life.

Protests have also erupted in the overseas territory of Martinique.

The health organisation's regional director warns of half a million deaths by March without action.

The companies were chosen to supply protective equipment in the early stages of the pandemic.

Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday morning.

Nicola Sturgeon was keen to remind people that Scotland is a semiautonomous nation — and would like to be independent.

Michael Gove is in charge of delivering Boris Johnson's flagship policy - here is what he plans to do.

A report has suggested the carbon footprint of the Glasgow summit is more than double that of COP25.

The drug trafficking case has sparked a rare disquiet in Singapore where the death penalty is largely uncontroversial.

Three Muslim men sued the FBI in 2011, arguing the federal government targeted them and their Southern California community based on their religion.

In western Mexico a small squad of soldiers with about a half-dozen trucks and sandbag emplacements stands guard on a rural highway

A growing number of near-starving children are brought every day to the main children’s hospital in the Afghan capital, Kabul

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega seeks a fourth consecutive term in elections Sunday against a field of little-known candidates while those who could have given him a real challenge sit in jail

Former PM Sir John Major says Boris Johnson's government's actions are damaging at home and overseas.

Cabinet minister Nadhim Zahawi admits a government plan to overhaul MPs' standards was a "mistake".

Prisoners are only notified hours before they are to be executed by hanging.

The idea is one of a series of education initiatives to be set out at the COP26 climate summit.

The move is a significant sanction against a company spotlighted in July by the global Pegasus Project consortium, including The Washington Post and 16 other news organizations worldwide.

Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor said the case should have been reviewed.

The federal government will require companies with at least 100 workers to give paid time off for employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to a Biden administration official. They will also get paid sick leave so they can recover from possible effects of the shots.

The United States representative to the United Nations stressed the importance of Mali’s return to civilian rule through democratic elections in February after she visited the West African nation as part of a U.N. Security Council mission

The British-Iranian aid worker, who has been detained in Iran, faces a return to prison.

Aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is distraught at the prospect of returning to jail, her husband Richard says.

The pressures currently faced by the NHS are not unsustainable, the health secretary says.

Lebanon’s state news agency reports the government has raised the price of fuel by about 25%

The Toebbes seemed to have everything - so why did they allegedly try to sell nuclear secrets?

Agents are sweeping homes linked to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch who is under US sanctions.

But Boris Johnson says the rollout of a Plan B to control the virus in England has not been discussed.

Home Secretary Priti Patel is reportedly planning to exempt staff from prosecution if migrants die.

Caucus members have sought more Latino hires in high-ranking city jobs.

The fighting is an escalation in the year-old civil war that threatens hundreds of thousands of people in the country with famine.

It warns high energy costs could "strangle production" if the government doesn't step in.

Council tax in England could jump within the next three years, the Institute for Fiscal Studies says.

Two bills passed by MSPs will have to be amended after the Supreme Court upheld a challenge made by UK law officers.

A subsidy for every citizen funded by the country’s petroleum could reduce Iraq’s large-scale corruption. The international community can help.

The move has been pitched as a way to help the federal government avoid a potential default and shutdown, but some experts say the idea is unrealistic.

The first minister admits that the app had caused "extreme frustration" for users and businesses.

With a month to go until the UK hosts a global climate summit, is the government on track to meet its own commitments?

Chung Eui-yong said the United States should do more to get North Korea to the negotiating table.

Nine arrests are made on the eighth day of action on the motorway in the last three weeks.

The E.U.'s foreign policy chief linked hacking efforts to the Ghostwriter group, which German officials have associated with Russian military intelligence.

Consumers face a steep rise in energy bills as governments try to fund the move to renewable energy.