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The current protests in Hong Kong have their roots in the agreement to hand over the territory from Britain to China in 1997.

The U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch by inviting everyone to launch their own rocket. They're trying to beat the world record.

The bill would ban most types of semi-automatic guns, including those used in massacres at two mosques in March. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the proposed changes shortly after the attacks

James Corden hosted the Tony Awards Sunday night in New York.Hadestown won 8 Tony Awards — including best musical. It's written, produced and directed by women.

Downtown is hosting several events this Memorial Day Weekend, and as such various streets and Metro routes are affected.

Right-wing candidate Ivan Duque won a place in Colombia's June presidential runoff against leftist Gustavo Petro. That has some worried that a fragile peace pact with Marxist rebels could unravel.

More than 500 property owners applied to receive generous loans to build new units or legalize existing dwellings for the homeless.

Nearly half a million English women around age 70 did not get notified that they were due for a mammogram because of a "computer algorithm error," the health secretary says.

Nicholson Baker's book misses the mark in an aim to take readers on a quest to discover if the U.S. used biological weapons developed in the '50s — and to examine the failings of public records law.

In a survey of more than 750 museum directors, 33% of them said there was either a "significant risk" of closing permanently by next fall or that they didn't know if their institutions would survive.