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At least six major automakers, including Ford, Mercedes-Benz, General Motors, and Volvo, and 30 national governments pledged on Wednesday to work toward phasing out...

The trial of Derek Chauvin, the ex-Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death, resumes Tuesday with further testimony from an MMA fighter who witnessed Floyd’s...

After more than 18 months of a pandemic, with one in every 545 Americans already killed by COVID-19, a sizable portion of the population...

As winter approaches, hospitals across Colorado are dealing with a resurgence of COVID-19, with an influx of patients flooding into health-care facilities. Front-line workers...

When the 44th Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday night, the lights at the Eccles Theater will be dim, and there will be fewer...

Kevin McCarthy and other Republican members of Congress can rant about how bad the border crisis is, but what are they doing about it? Last...

The number of unaccompanied migrant children in US Border Patrol facilities, which are akin to jail cells and not intended for kids, has reached...

Household income increased at a record rate of 21.1 percent in March, as federal stimulus checks fueled an economic recovery that is expected to...

According to research released Monday, in nearly two dozen U.S. metropolitan areas, younger women have closed the pay gap or are outpacing their male...

The exclusive club of former presidents and first ladies has reunited with an important message: Get the COVID-19 vaccine. Missing from the campaign is...

Prosecutors announced Thursday that a tree trimmer in rural Northern California has been charged in three throat-slashing serial killings. Ryan Scott Blinston, 37, of Oroville,...

During a speech before the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday morning, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned Russia for killing civilians...

According to internal correspondence, Alphabet Inc.'s Google plans to discontinue a long-running program aimed at entry-level engineers from underrepresented backgrounds because participants claimed it...

Thousands of curious onlookers have flocked to an erupting volcano in Iceland to marvel at the hypnotic display of glowing red lava, the bravest...

A helicopter crash in the Alaskan wilderness left five people, including one of Europe’s richest residents, dead after the chopper went down on Saturday...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) filed a lawsuit against Facebook's parent company, Meta Platforms Inc., on Monday, alleging that the social media giant...

Rep. Ilhan Omar is strongly condemning "harassment and silencing" from her Democratic colleagues after a dozen of them issued a late-night statement criticizing her...

The delay in confirming President Biden's nominees for positions at the State Department and USAID has already harmed our national security. That is easier...

Bill Gates reflected on his "most unusual and difficult year," but he also looked ahead to 2022 and beyond with a sense of optimism,...

The tax plan President Joe Biden laid out last week will likely hit technology and pharmaceutical companies particularly hard, although the challenge for legislators...

Ah yes, Venice Beach in California: synonymous with sun, surf, palm trees and, now, homeless people. In this Los Angeles-area town that has long drawn...

New York City lawmakers are set to vote on Wednesday on whether to prohibit the use of natural gas in most new buildings, a...

The White House and leading conservative policy experts both chastised a leading Republican senator on Tuesday for calling for all Americans to begin paying...

This week, Dr. Anthony Fauci expressed optimism about the pandemic's state in the United States. "We are certainly out of the pandemic phase in this...

A judge recently ordered a New York woman to remove a Confederate flag-adorned rock from her home or risk losing custody of her biracial...

Chips can be found in nearly every electronic device you own, from your phone to your computer to your car. Chips can even be...

Despite the generally broad legal protections for social networks, Snap can be sued over a Snapchat speed filter that allegedly encouraged reckless driving. The...

Russia has issued a warning against a repeat of the NATO Western military alliance's bombing campaign of Yugoslavia on its 22nd anniversary, as Washington's...

Bryson DeChambeau is determined to be an outstanding team player at the Ryder Cup, and he wasted no time proving it on Tuesday. He spoke...

Jonathan and Bryan Espinoza, brothers, claim they witnessed "chaos" at the Astroworld Festival from the moment they stepped inside. On Friday night, a crowd surge...

The Supreme Court has ruled that Texas abortion providers can sue the state over its ban on most abortions, but the justices have left...

College football has returned. For many, the return of a fall tradition is a welcome sight, but for others, the scenes of tens of...

China and the European Union held a virtual summit on Friday, which was overshadowed by Russia's war in Ukraine. E.U. leaders pressed Premier Li Keqiang...

Progressive lawmakers and House staffers are putting pressure on Democratic leaders to punish first-term Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado for a string of...

Following a second consecutive year in which the word "unprecedented" did more than its fair share of narrative heavy lifting, economists are wary of...

Frigid air, spilling south from the Arctic, has invaded Europe and Alaska, setting back spring and challenging long-standing records. In Europe, the cold has come...

A new Senate panel's bipartisan investigation claims that one of the country's largest military housing companies put military families' health and safety at risk,...

Officials have launched an investigation after three American tourists were discovered dead at a Bahamas resort on Friday. Sandals confirmed that the guests were staying...

President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Sunday directing the federal government to promote voting access in a move meant to commemorate the...

President Biden promised on his first full day in office to reevaluate the federal Bureau of Prisons' Covid-19 protocols and to release additional data...

According to a new report from cybersecurity firm Mandiant and Google experts, a pro-Chinese government online influence operation is targeting Americans in an effort...

Whether you prefer to kill insects or not, there is one bug that health officials in the northeastern United States want you to get...

The International Monetary Fund maintained its 6 percent global growth forecast for 2021 on Tuesday, raising expectations for the United States and other wealthy...

Tensions between protesters and police intensified for the second night in a row Monday, a day after a Brooklyn Center police officer fatally shot...

Democrats, according to DeSantis, are attempting to 'drive dissension' among Republicans by spreading a false narrative about his relationship with Trump. Republicans, including Republican Florida...

Camila Cabello is the most recent celebrity to speak out in support of Cuba's ongoing protests. Over the weekend, the singer took to TikTok to...

Parler, a social media company and app similar to Twitter that caters to conservative and right-wing users, announced that it would be relaunching its...

Tanzania's President John Magufuli, one of Africa's most prominent coronavirus sceptics, has died aged 61, Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Wednesday after...

Officials in New Mexico said Wednesday that they believe a real bullet was loaded in the antique revolver used by actor Alec Baldwin in...

Marty Chavez arrived at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport early Tuesday for his flight to Ohio and immediately began looking for his mask. He approached a...

Alexandra Abrams, who worked on Blue Origin's communications team for two and a half years, was once so convinced she'd spend her entire life...

The rate at which the world’s forests are being destroyed increased sharply last year, with at least 42,000 sq km of tree cover lost...

If it's Monday, President Biden will present his fiscal year 2023 budget. The White House and Democrats clarify Biden's remark to Putin that "this...

The new home of Elize Lutz and Harrie Dekkers is a 94-square-meter (1,011-square-foot) two-bedroom bungalow that resembles a boulder with windows. Its gray concrete walls'...

Iryna Nikolaieva sat in a stairwell of a Kyiv bomb shelter where she had been living for three days and called engineers at two...

Six climate activists and two environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have taken Norway to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), claiming that the Nordic...

In the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the threat of the Omicron variant, New York City is hosting a "scaled back" version...

As Russia's invasion continues, Ukrainian officials and two Republican members of Congress have pushed for the US to impose a no-fly zone, but doing...

The real estate market has been on fire in the midst of a global pandemic. Demand for homes has skyrocketed, pushing prices to all-time highs....

For the last seven weeks, workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, have been voting by mail on whether to unionize. Their ballots...

A European court ruled on Tuesday that the Vatican cannot be sued in a local court for sexual abuse committed by Catholic priests, stating...

President Biden announced the nominations of three top Federal Reserve officials on Friday, completing a full slate for the Fed's board of governors. Biden formally...

Joe Biden began his presidency with a promise to advance equity, which entails favoring certain races and ethnicities over others in order to reduce...

Some residents want Buckhead to be its own city, the latest in a string of political schisms based on race and class in the...

Just over a year after the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, Republicans mostly still support Donald Trump, but it...

A growing number of states are implementing digital credentials known as vaccine passports, a project that the Biden administration signaled this spring that it...

The war in Afghanistan did not end when US and UK troops left Kabul airport last year; it simply took a new, but still...

Demetrius Napolitano stood outside his adoptive mother's apartment in New York. Child welfare officials had removed him from her home years before. Years had passed...

On Monday, the Supreme Court denied a hearing to a Seattle-based Christian group that refused to hire a bisexual attorney, despite the fact that...

Cyberattacks have increased dramatically in recent months, frequently disrupting products and services that are essential to our daily lives. Many of these attacks have...

Russian forces launched an all-out assault on Ukraine on Thursday, claiming to be the largest European invasion since World War II. Following reports of troops...

Authorities say the man arrested after a 30-hour manhunt in the shooting of ten people on a subway train in Brooklyn will appear in...

The clock is ticking for Congress to reach an agreement to raise the federal borrowing limit, also known as the debt ceiling, before the...

Alexei Navalny, the imprisoned Russian opposition leader, is facing new charges that could lengthen his sentence by 15 years. With the international community and media...

The clock is ticking on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's tenure, but it is moving too slowly for some critics who are concerned about...

When it comes time to start comparing car insurance prices and rates, there are two primary ways to do so. You could use an...

In response to a global shortage of microprocessors used in everything from phones and cars to video games, Intel will invest $20 billion in...

Jeff Bezos leaves an enduring legacy after transforming Amazon from a modest online bookseller into one of the world's most powerful corporations as he...

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is still extremely safe and worth using, according to a federal advisory committee that recommended its use in people over...

Tokyo declared a new state of emergency on Monday, less than two weeks before the Games begin, amid concerns that the measures will not...