Politics

We’re nearly halfway through February, a period when influenza is typically widespread throughout the United States and much of the world. Normally, one could...

The family of Daunte Wright gathered around his white coffin draped in red roses Wednesday, taking in one of the last times they would...

Many religious leaders who support the anti-abortion movement have praised the new Texas law that prohibits most abortions in the state. However, some abortion...

Women who use marijuana during pregnancy are putting their babies at risk, a study published Thursday finds. Babies born to women who were heavy cannabis users...

Microsoft announced last year that it will be carbon-negative by 2030. “Science tells us that the results will be catastrophic if we do not...

President Joe Biden began his first overseas trip as president on Wednesday, seeking to reaffirm the United States' standing on the world stage with...

Stores in two South African provinces were ransacked for the fifth day in a row on Tuesday, just hours after President Cyril Ramaphosa dispatched...

The Taliban has accused the US of violating their 2020 peace agreement by keeping their new interior minister, Sirrajudin Haqqani, on the US terror...

As Covid-19 spread last year, governments around the world touted the prospect of “herd immunity,” a promised land in which the virus would stop...

Former Navy Secretary Kenneth Braithwaite traveled the world during his brief tenure in the Trump administration, spending approximately $2.4 million on air travel. Braithwaite spent...

As the US withdrew from Afghanistan and chaos ensued, Republican lawmakers were quick to criticize President Joe Biden's handling of the withdrawal. The violence in...

The trustees of the Social Security Trust Funds are expected to release their long-delayed annual report on the stability of America's core retirement program...

According to local authorities, at least seven children and two adults were killed, and over 20 others were injured, in a mass shooting at...

The Democratic Party has shifted to the left on US policy toward Israel in recent years, showing a greater willingness to criticize Israel and...

Following a sharp drop in cases and hospitalizations following a summer surge, California now has the lowest coronavirus transmission rate of any state. The nation's...

  President Joe Biden and his administration are planning to share with the public Tuesday that they will begin distributing a limited number of COVID-19 vaccines straight...

Historians consider it the worst Native American massacre in US history. Despite this, few people have heard of it. According to historians and tribal leaders,...

As the country approaches the one year anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic, much of the population continues to try and work, learn, and live...

Illinois is set to become the first state to require Asian American history to be taught in public schools, after a bill passed its...

US President Joe Biden slipped a phrase into a major address on infrastructure spending earlier this month with a laugh, calling it a "boring...

Former President Donald Trump is reportedly unhappy with the opening argument from his impeachment lawyer, Bruce Castor on the Senate floor Tuesday. Bruce Castor, who is...

A federal grand jury has indicted four former Minneapolis police officers who were involved in George Floyd's arrest and death, accusing them of willfully...

Since its initial public offering last July, Lemonade (NYSE: LMND) stock has taken investors for a wild ride. After closing at a high of $183...

The Biden administration acted quickly after a primary gasoline pipeline was compromised by a cyberattack, realizing that the situation posed a number of political...

President Donald Trump contracted COVID-19 back in October of 2020 and apparently was much sicker than he acknowledged at the time. He had extremely...

On Sunday night, Texas Democrats staged a dramatic, last-ditch walkout in the state House of Representatives to prevent the passage of one of the...

The ivory-billed woodpecker, along with 22 other bird, fish, mussel, and wildlife species, is set to be declared extinct and removed from the endangered...

After the extreme and deadly weather that hit Texas earlier this month, the IRS announced that it would be extending the deadline to June...

According to Iranian state media, Iran's largest navy ship sank early Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman after catching fire, the latest blow to...

Ivanka Trump aided in securing pardons and commutations for over a hundred people in her father’s final days in office. She could potentially champion...

The first waves of arrests in the deadly siege at the United States Capitol targeted easy targets. Dozens of members of the pro-Trump mob...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration on Tuesday in response to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants entering the United States through...

What is the lone force that can keep purported Big Tech villains like Facebook and Google from supplanting themselves as dominant platforms? Republicans. Normally, those...

On Wednesday morning, students at a New Jersey high school logged into their remote landscape and design class, expecting their teacher to lead a...

Paul Rusesabagina, the former hotelier who inspired the acclaimed 2004 film "Hotel Rwanda," claims he was tortured for several days by Rwandan authorities at...

When it comes to extreme sports and outdoor adventure, few companies match Blizzard. Since 1974 they have built upon their reputation for providing the...

Su Hua, the founder of a Chinese startup called Kuaishou Technology, was on the verge of closing the biggest deal of his career in...

Despite concerns about the spread of potentially dangerous coronavirus variants, the European Union lifted travel restrictions for US residents in the latest step toward...

British computer scientists have discovered a way to remotely hijack contactless Visa payments on an iPhone that has been locked. The proper delivery of...

The G7 group of major global economies announced over the weekend that it had reached an agreement to levy a 15% minimum tax on...

A volcano in the Caribbean has been erupting for quite some time. Residents on some eastern Caribbean islands were placed on alert last week...

A third of all the world's man-made greenhouse gas emissions are linked to food, according to new global research that tracked produce from field...

A report on Maricopa County's 2020 election, ordered by Arizona state Senate Republicans and delivered to them on Friday, confirmed the state's certified election...

According to a new study, two out of every five people with compromised immune systems have a “low or undetectable” antibody response after receiving...

Even as US newspapers sink toward an abyss, an unusual bidding war has broken out for a major chain, pitting hedge fund operators against...

On Wednesday, 37 U.S. state and district attorneys general filed a lawsuit against Alphabet Inc's Google, alleging that it bought off competitors and used...

On Thursday, The Federal Communications Commission approved regulations for a broadband subsidy program that could help families who have struggled during the pandemic afford...

The date was March 17, 2017. Troops from the US-led coalition fighting jihadists in Iraq were pushing their way into Mosul's Old City, squeezing...

With feared pandemic loan losses not materializing, most major U.S. banks are expected to report a stunning rebound in quarterly profits next week, despite...

On Thursday, Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said that President Joe Biden’s goal is to have schools re-open to five days a...

A Texas state law that prohibits abortion after six weeks of pregnancy could serve as a model for red states to enact stringent abortion...

When Mayor Lori Lightfoot approached them in a hospital following the shooting of two officers on Saturday night, about 30 Chicago police officers reportedly...

Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin traveled to Israel in June to scout potential investments for his new company, then flew to Qatar for a...

More than a million Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine doses held in Israel and set to expire at the end of July may be discarded after attempts...

With COVID-19 numbers skyrocketing over the Holidays and death tolls steadily on the rise, the country’s top expert on Coronavirus, Dr. Fauci gives his warnings...

Celebrities are speaking out after the death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was shot and killed by a police officer in a Minneapolis suburb during a...

Demonstrators showing solidarity with the thousands of Cubans who took part in a rare weekend of protests across their island nation shut down a...

At a G20 meeting on Tuesday, the United States led calls for greater global cooperation in light of the coronavirus crisis, while China insisted...

Police on Friday were seeking a motive and working to identify the gunman and eight victims in a mass shooting at a FedEx facility late Thursday. Police...

On a hot June morning, Novavax CEO and covid vaccine maker Stanley Erck stood unmasked on a stage and did something unthinkable six months...

This week, Facebook informed advertisers that a "bug" in its measurement system had resulted in an undercounting of ad performance among some iPhone 12...

Six months into the campaign to vaccinate the US population against Covid-19, stark differences in vaccination rates have emerged between the states with the...

Consumer staple stocks, such as PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP), can be a great addition to any long-term portfolio because they are known to perform well during...

Melissa Smith has had a hectic few weeks. In late May, an adjunct instructor at Oklahoma City Community College discovered that her Race and Ethnicity...

Ordinary Americans may be unaware of this, but political science buffs who live in and write about Washington are arguing about how bad things...

The most recent coup in bauxite-rich Analysts say Guinea is reverberating throughout the aluminum market, but the global production chain appears to be unaffected...

According to police, the shooting of a California teenager by a school safety officer is now being investigated as a homicide. Manuela "Mona" Rodriguez, 18,...

Seychelles, which has vaccinated the most of its population against Covid-19, saw active cases more than double in the week ending May 7, raising...

A federal judge has denied President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani's request for the return of a trove of digital information seized by the...

Charges against police officers, public safety workers and military veterans in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol have reignited concerns among lawmakers and...

Former Vice President Mike Pence has remained at the center of speculation about his plans for the 2024 presidential election, and despite the fact...

Despite how they appear from Earth, the celestial bodies' complex, corkscrewing orbital paths through the cosmos are far from fixed, and subtle changes in...

The Justice Department will ask the United States Supreme Court on Wednesday to reinstate the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, despite...

Nissan announced plans Thursday for a massive battery gigafactory in northeastern England, where it will produce a new electric vehicle as companies and governments...

It is a scary thought that all crocodiles are going to die off. If you're an enthusiastic and passionate nature lover, you will not...

Richard Drew, a photographer for nearly six decades, has learned a basic rule: "You can be two hours early, but not a 60th of...

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...

Prices increased by 3.6 percent in April compared to the previous year, continuing a trend of rising inflation, though economic policymakers say the increases...

Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles, in tears, blamed the FBI, USA Gymnastics, and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee for allowing disgraced former USA...

The Afghan man was attending a conference in California as part of his job for a US-government-funded project in Afghanistan when the Taliban sent...