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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...

A powerful attack on a Russian air base in occupied Crimea was carried out by Ukrainian special forces, a Ukrainian government official told The...

Roger Federer's comeback after 14 months out with a knee injury ended in the quarter-finals of the Qatar Open after he was beaten by...

Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Facebook, could be in for a rough ride on Thursday when he testifies to Congress for the first time...

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...

Leah Zhang experienced a growing sense of suffocation as coronavirus cases increased in Shanghai earlier this year and the city's lockdown lasted for weeks...

In an Atlanta courtroom on Friday, a potentially precedent-setting disqualification hearing is underway to determine whether Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is...

Just three months after acknowledging an outbreak, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared victory over COVID-19 and ordered preventive measures to be eased,...

Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook and now CEO of Meta, stated on Monday that a new touch sensor and a plastic material could potentially...

Wildlife conservationists are outraged after a video published by the New Yorker and The Trance on Tuesday showed the NRA's president and his wife...

A Brussels court has ruled that Belgium's failure to meet climate targets is a violation of human rights, in the latest legal victory against...

According to an email sent to Trump's lawyers in May 2021 by National Archives and Records Administration chief counsel Gary Stern, Trump-era records were...

Starling, a British digital bank, reported a sevenfold increase in revenue in the 16 months ending March 2021 as lending increased sevenfold, helping to...

Richard Metzler purchased automation equipment as part of a plan to more than double the volume of his small parcel delivery company this holiday...

In an interview, Apple's SVP of software engineering explains the company's privacy changes in iOS 14.5. Apple's push to require app developers to request...

China's "wolf warrior" diplomats are back after a brief lull, firing insults over Twitter, smearing critics and suggesting conspiracies. The hyperactivity of the envoys...

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...

Kamala Harris, the vice president, had to travel to the US. Senate will resolve a tie. She first needed to prevent a backup in...

This weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris will face her most important foreign policy assignment yet in Germany, where she will try to keep European...

Hundreds of Afghans made their way through the carnage left by the previous day's deadly suicide bombings outside Kabul airport on Friday in a...

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

E-reader apps that became a lifeline for students during the pandemic are now in the crossfire of a culture war raging over books in...

In Haiti, nearly 150 people have been killed and scores have been injured in gunfights between warring gangs, as the latest wave of violence...

Nearly three weeks after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration is still determining the most effective way to get military aid into the...

The official seal of Atlanta depicts a phoenix rising from the ashes of the Civil War. What it doesn't show is that Atlanta was...

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

Bomb-throwers in the House Freedom Caucus derailed Kevin McCarthy's bid for speaker in 2015. Members of the ultraconservative, Trump-aligned group are causing major headaches for...

White House has begun a major overhaul of its COVID strategy, indicating that the country is moving out of crisis mode and into a...

A transgender South Korean soldier who was forcibly discharged from the army after gender-reassignment surgery has been found dead, police said, prompting anger Thursday...

At least 12 people have died as a result of heat-related issues in parts of the United States over the last few weeks. Last week,...

A prosecutor who sent some of those children to prison is now in charge of turning around South Carolina's chronically dangerous juvenile prisons. Eden Hendrick,...

From Australia to South Korea and across Asia Pacific, the last "zero-Covid" bastions are relaxing restrictions and opening borders as the region prepares to...

High school athletics are feeling the effects of the omicron surge, from paused games to restricted fans, during a winter season that coaches and...

An elderly housekeeper at a former hotel in Long Beach, California, that was being used to quarantine people with COVID-19, tested positive for the...

Rory McIlroy has never been shy about expressing his disdain for Saudi-backed LIV Golf's attempts to quickly gain traction by stealing some of the...

More than 130 people, including Gloria Steinem, and organizations involved in women's rights advocacy, domestic violence and sexual assault awareness, have signed an open...

On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron will meet with the leader of the United Arab Emirates to ensure energy supplies from the oil-rich Gulf...

According to an analysis of data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it will take until mid-February to get at least...

Lawmakers in a few states are pushing for stronger safeguards for election officials, citing growing concerns about their safety in the aftermath of the...

On Tuesday, a California prosecutor said he would not rule out seeking the death penalty for a Chinese-American man who harbored anti-Taiwanese sentiments and...

Since it was approved for use, the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine has been marketed with one major advantage over its competitors: it only...

Despite overwhelmingly vaccinated player populations, COVID-19's second winter has decimated North American sports leagues at a level not seen since the industry reopened in...

An independent review released Wednesday found that the police officers in Moab, Utah, who encountered Gabby Petito and her fiancé a month before her...

The Supreme Court granted the Biden administration permission on Thursday to end a Trump-era immigration policy that required asylum seekers to remain in Mexico...

Immigration enforcement arrests in the United States have dropped dramatically in the last year as the Biden administration shifted its enforcement priorities to focus...

On the last day of the state's legislative session, Alabama's Republican-controlled legislature passed two bills aimed at transgender children, including one that makes it...

The Biden administration announced on Friday that it will consider new measures to protect greater sage grouse, a bird species that was once found...

The police officer accused of murdering George Floyd used inappropriate "deadly force" when kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes, an expert...

As the Supreme Court appears to be on track to overturn the constitutional right to abortion, progressive prosecutors across the country are declaring that...

For the first time in decades, the American worker is in charge when it comes to money. As an example, some employers, such as Kroger...

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 Monday, hundreds of would-be rescuers laboriously dug through a mountain of crushed concrete, mangled steel, and smashed belongings as officials vowed to continue...

"I feel Qatari today. I feel Arab today. My current mood is African. I feel gay today. I feel unable today. Gianni Infantino, the...

According to Chinese health officials, a man died in China after contracting the Monkey B virus, a rare infectious disease from primates. The victim,...

For the third straight week the United States has seen a drop in coronavirus infections, marking a significant improvement from prior months. Nevertheless, the US...

Federal prosecutors have charged a 32-year-old man with a federal firearm crime, alleging that he sold the gun used by the Colleyville, Texas, synagogue...

A wave of new abortion-rights legislation is sweeping the country, raising concerns about the potential use of personal data to punish people who seek...

Ministers from the European Union met on Monday to respond to Russia's cut in gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria, as well as to...

Lebanon has been without a fully functioning government for nearly ten months, with President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri unable to reach...

As authorities reversed more than two years of coronavirus controls, Chinese hospitals scrambled to contain new outbreaks across the nation on Monday. Authorities last week...

Since his days on the campaign trail, President Biden has tried to cast himself as diametrically opposed to President Donald Trump when it comes...

According to a lengthy Facebook post, hydrogen peroxide is the Swiss Army Knife of home health care and cleanup, capable of serving as a...

After a massive leak of financial data revealed how London is a key destination of choice for some of the world's richest and most...

President Joe Biden and the prime ministers of Australia and the United Kingdom announced a new defense partnership in September, surprising both allies and...

It's like an overwrought B-movie plot. The number of new COVID-19 cases in Florida has reached levels not seen since the pandemic's inception. The number...

The Psyche asteroid is rich in precious metals and could be worth more than $10,000 quadrillion (£8,072 quadrillion), according to new surface temperature measurements. Psyche...

The 2020 census was planned well in advance to ensure that Native Americans living on reservations were counted more accurately than they were in...

President Biden has been difficult to track down, at least for solo television interviews. Biden hasn't given a formal, sit-down television interview since February 10,...

Google is famous for its cafeterias, which serve everything from vegan poke to gourmet tacos to its legions of programmers and product managers for...

Goldman Sachs is growing increasingly pessimistic about the US economy as government support for coronaviruses fades and consumer spending remains volatile. What's going on: The...

Texas Democrats and activists are warning that Governor Greg Abbott's executive order on immigration bears dangerous resemblances to Arizona's hardline SB-1070 law, which resulted...

California's coronavirus vaccine mandate for schoolchildren will be implemented, but not until at least the summer of 2023, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration. California...

Three Republican senators have asked Archivist of the United States David Ferriero to commit to not certifying the Equal Rights Amendment as part of...

The Biden administration backtracked on a contentious proposal to direct the IRS to collect additional data on every bank account with more than $600...

President Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package is now officially law. Like the current economic crisis that the package aims to alleviate, climate change...

Throughout the pandemic, millions of Americans relied heavily on pharmacies for easy access to COVID-19 vaccines and boosters. According to the Centers for Disease Control...

Those shopping for hearing aids know that they can cost a lot of money — well over $2,000 and sometimes much more for premium...

Somalia's government urged people who had fled violence in the capital to return home on Wednesday, as tensions eased after the president called for...

In 2018, a mother and her daughter were killed after being hit by Cameron Herrin's car. Herrin received a 24-year prison sentence in April...

It makes no difference to the champion Los Angeles Lakers, who won a tense 103-100 play-in game against the scariest dude of them all...