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Craig Barritt/Getty Images for The Robin Hood Foundation(ST. LOUIS, Mo.) — The office of embattled Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens announced that he is holding a press conference Tuesday afternoon. Politicians and lawmakers in the state [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(LONDON) — Sad desk lunches may be a little less sad for the environment, at least in Europe. The European Union has proposed new laws to ban some everyday single-use plastic products including straws, cutlery [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(BOGOTA, Colombia) — It’s a runoff to fill the presidency in Colombia, as none of the six candidates running for office Sunday managed to get the 50 percent plus one vote required to be elected. [Read More…]

Chris Kleponis – Pool/Getty Images(SALT LAKE CITY) — An American jailed for two years without a trial in Venezuela returned home to Utah on Monday with the Venezuelan wife he had originally traveled to the [Read More…]

WYFF-TV(GREENVILLE, S.C.) — A South Carolina TV news station is in mourning after two journalists covering subtropical storm Alberto were killed when a tree fell on their car. The large tree — about 3 feet [Read More…]

ABC/Adam Rose(NEW YORK) — The show “Roseanne” was canceled Tuesday, hours after Roseanne Barr, lead actress in the rebooted sitcom, faced a public storm of criticism with a tweet calling a former presidential adviser to [Read More…]

Italian Ministry for Arts and Culture (POMPEII, Italy) — The skeleton of a man who appeared to be fleeing the devastating eruption of Mt. Vesuvius has been discovered in new excavation work in the ancient [Read More…]

WLS(CHIGAGO) — A Chicago Fire Department diver died and two others were injured Monday night while searching for a missing boater in the Chicago River, officials said. The Chicago Fire Department confirmed via a Twitter [Read More…]

Martin H. Simon-Pool/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The number of journalists imprisoned on dubious charges brought by the governments they cover is on the rise, and some experts say “fake news” is to blame. At least [Read More…]

Scott Olson/Getty Images(SANTA FE, Texas) — Santa Fe High School students were greeted by community members holding signs of support as they returned to class Tuesday morning for the first time since a mass shooting [Read More…]

Atlantide Phototravel/Getty Images(SEATTLE) — For four hours Tuesday, more than 170,000 Starbucks employees will set aside the Frappuccinos and espresso machines to learn how to avoid the kind of racial bias that many say led [Read More…]