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Higher mortgage rates continued to dampen housing market activity as permits for new construction fell and single-family homebuilding in the United States fell to...

President Volodymyr Zelensky warned overnight that the fate of Ukraine's entire Donbas region is dependent on the strategic city of Severodonetsk, as he urged...

Proud to celebrate Columbus Day as an Italian American child. St. Patrick's Day, with its Irish dancing, shamrocks, and green cupcakes, didn't deserve the...

South Africa, with its rolling vineyards, abundant big game, the iconic Table Mountain, endless sandy beaches, and vast cultural riches, would have expected to...

Authorities say a suspect shot and killed four people and injured three others, including a police officer, in a shooting spree that began in...

President Joe Biden states that he doesn't believe former President Donald Trump should receive classified intelligence briefings. This is per tradition for past presidents, citing...

A family who lost their home earlier this month in a deadly fire that started at a sawmill in the Northern California town of...

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...

The Biden Administration will be launching a new program on February 19 that processes asylum-seekers. According to the program, around 25,000 people will be...

This is the second time in less than six months that we have seen unspeakable violence on our screens. The ongoing coverage of Russia's...

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...

On the eve of a hearing for three men accused in Ahmaud Arbery's death, his family witnessed the repeal of a Civil War-era law...

The Minneapolis Police Department has engaged in a pattern of race discrimination for at least the past decade, according to an extensive state investigation...

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

The only people at school who knew the truth about Jeremiah Armstead’s home life were his basketball coaches. Armstead, 18, was exhausted from sleeping in...

Workers on freight trains are fed up. Because he couldn't get time off, one conductor almost missed his wife's funeral. After having to stay at...

Less than two weeks after meeting President Biden for the first time in Geneva, Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the United States' prosecution of...

Despite Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Maksim Chmerkovskiy has returned to Europe to assist those in need. After returning home from Ukraine earlier this month, the...

Vanessa Bryant's ongoing civil trial against Los Angeles County has become so graphic and gruesome that Bryant felt compelled to leave the courtroom during...

The Navy will appeal a Hawaii Department of Health order to halt operations at a fuel site linked to contaminated tap water at Joint...

The activities of religious groups "affiliated with centers of influence" in Russia were outlawed by Ukraine on Friday, and the country also announced it...

The investigation into the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol by Donald Trump supporters will soon begin weeks of public hearings, putting the...

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...

Finland and Sweden formally applied for NATO membership on Wednesday, a move that, if approved, would fundamentally transform Northern Europe's security landscape and provide...

As he arrived at an EU summit dominated by growing controversy over the issue, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban defended a new law in...

Former football star Herschel Walker, a first-time candidate endorsed by Donald Trump, appears to be lagging behind other Republicans in Georgia. Walker, a sports legend,...

A new report from California's first-ever reparations task force explains how slavery affected nearly every aspect of Black life in America, causing "innumerable harms"...

Women who have accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual assault are suing the banks, alleging that they enabled Epstein's alleged sex-trafficking operation and disregarded warning...

Vice President Kamala Harris laughed while responding to a question from a reporter who asked Monday if she would be visiting the border amid the...

As the United States increases pressure on Russia in response to fears of a Ukrainian invasion, Russia's leader, Vladimir V. Putin, has found solace...

President Joe Biden has described Russia's war on Ukraine as genocide and accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of war crimes. His administration, on the...

According to the State Department, the US government now considers WNBA star Brittney Griner to be "wrongfully detained" in Russia. "The welfare and safety of...

The Los Angeles County sheriff said detectives have determined what caused Tiger Woods to crash his SUV last month in Southern California but declined...

Nathalie Emmanuel explains where she draws the line when it comes to nudity on screen. Emmanuel, who played Missandei on HBO's "Game of Thrones" for...

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...

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...

The Iranian government denied responsibility for the attack on Salman Rushdie on Monday, saying it had never heard of the man who allegedly stabbed...

NATO's rapid reaction force will be nearly eightfold increased to 300,000 troops as part of its response to a "era of strategic competition," according...

Forecasters believe the West is in for a particularly bad wildfire year, as several destructive fires have already erupted well before the hottest, driest...

Because of "unknown hazards" in the area where a family and their dog were mysteriously found dead last month, federal forest officials closed trails...

Last week, Joe Biden introduced a $1.9 trillion stimulus as an ambitious plan to take on the current economic crisis. Most economists note, however,...

Lesa Tard anticipates that the clean energy revolution will bring more hot wings and cheeseburgers to Stanton with Ford's plans to build a factory...

The head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the quasi-military mafia that governs the country, claimed that the US is planning to leave...

As California's attorney general, Xavier Becerra led a national effort to preserve the Affordable Care Act and fought the Trump administration on issues ranging...

Robert E. Lee High School in Montgomery, Alabama, opened shortly after the US Supreme Court ordered school desegregation in 1954. Brown vs. Board of Education...

A body was discovered, and the search for 38 people missing from a boat that capsized off the coast of Florida was continuing Wednesday...

A common theme on the dockets of some of the most significant cases before the Supreme Court in recent weeks, ranging from affirmative action...

President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that his administration will prohibit Russian oil, natural gas, and coal imports into the United States in response...

On Friday morning, the death toll in Eastern Kentucky rose to 16, including two children, after torrential rains flooded the region, destroying hundreds of...

On the tarmac of Kabul airport on Tuesday, Taliban leaders declared victory over the United States, just hours after the last American troops left...

Squaw Valley, a popular Lake Tahoe ski resort, announced in September that it would change its name because the term was "derogatory and offensive."...

Some of the world's most protected forests are emitting more carbon than they absorb, owing to factors such as logging and wildfires, according to...

When Rebecca Firlit joined a virtual court hearing with her ex-husband earlier this month, she expected the proceedings to revolve around child support. The...

Yesterday, California Federal Judge William Alsup approved the cancellation of over $6 billion in federal student loan debt for the 200,000 borrowers who have...

Pick-up truck drivers pull up to a white trailer in a parking lot on Fallon Paiute-Shoshone land in Nevada's high desert and are handed...

On Friday, SpaceX launched three wealthy businessmen and an astronaut escort to the International Space Station for a stay of more than a week,...

Mehle Taylor, 10, drew a picture of Rogelio Torres, one of her close friends who was brutally killed in last month's school shooting massacre,...

The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it will cancel three planned oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's...

Elizabeth Walsh, a mother of three elementary school-aged children in Washington, D.C., is determined not to become one of those wealthy white families that...

Thursday night at the U.S. Olympic figure skating trials, as younger women began to secure their spots on the 2022 Olympic team, another woman,...

Despite strong opposition from cities and towns, Gov. Dan McKee, a former mayor of Cumberland, has allowed a bill providing a tax break to...

Chase Oliver, a libertarian, will not win Georgia's Senate race. However, the 37-year-old self-described former Democrat could command enormous national attention, influencing the election night...

On Sunday, a man lay sprawled by the roadside in the Ukrainian city of Bucha, his hands tied behind his back and a bullet...

The Canadian government announced Friday that it will prohibit the importation of handguns into the country, the latest in a series of gun-control measures...

The officer who was fatally stabbed outside the Pentagon was identified by the Pentagon police force on Wednesday. Officer George Gonzalez was a New York...

Tyree Johnson adored his apartment with a view of the Pacific Ocean — until it began to crumble down a cliff into the water. He...

Running a business in Afghanistan has one unspoken rule: Pay the Taliban. Abdul Ahad Wahidi learned that the hard way when insurgents blew up...

As abortion laws in the South and Midwest prohibit nearly all abortions in a dozen states, some city officials are looking for new ways...

Health experts advising US regulators will vote Wednesday on whether Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer Inc., BioNTech SE, and Moderna Inc. should be approved for...

According to a new analysis, life expectancy in the United States, which fell dramatically in 2020 as the coronavirus swept through the country, continued...

Facebook's profit more than doubled in the most recent quarter as digital advertising surged, but the company warned of slower growth in the months...

Moral crucibles that upend ordinary people's lives, never above reproach but always deserving of sympathy, serve as a dramatic propellant for Iranian writer-director Asghar...

Stocks are mostly higher on Wall Street as traders prepare for the return of economic data and corporate earnings after the year-end holidays. In...

The preseason is called that for a reason. Both teams are testing lineups and systems, gradually working their stars into game shape, and taking...

Onstage at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, Dave Chappelle was assaulted by a man who ran up and tackled the...

A US congressman has asked the FBI to look into law enforcement's response to the Uvalde, Texas, massacre that killed 19 children and two...

In recent years, pole dancing, once the preserve of the strip club, has been given a much larger stage -- from the 2020 Grammys,...

Moderna is expected to submit a formal request to the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday to have its Covid-19 vaccine approved for children...

China's reaction to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan was anything but subtle, with warships and military aircraft dispatched to all sides...

The World Trade Organization's decision to postpone a crucial meeting last week calls into question efforts to rehabilitate the alliance, which has been battered...