Tag: assesses

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

According to a summary of the findings, China's preliminary report into what caused a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 to crash into a mountain...

Virtual platforms like Netflix and Zoom have emerged as lifelines for a pandemic-hit world forced indoors, but in sanctioned Syria where both websites are...

When Tetsuya Yamagami was apprehended following the assassination of Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, he told police he had "a grudge" against a...

Lawmakers and advocacy groups are calling for the resignation or removal of the newly elected Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Greene has been receiving...

Gigi Sohn, President Joe Biden's choice to fill the vacant seat on the five-member Federal Communications Commission, was scheduled to be voted on Wednesday...

According to a monitoring group, more than 1,300 people were detained across Russia on Wednesday for participating in nationwide anti-war protests, with some directly...

Washington's NFL team announced Tuesday that its new name, which will not be the Wolves or RedWolves, will be revealed on Feb. 2. Other finalists...

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...

Dorka Juhasz of UConn, like many of her teammates, was ecstatic when she learned that college athletes would be allowed to earn money through...

Abortion restrictions are sweeping the country, from Florida to Texas to Idaho, limiting the already limited training options for medical students and residents in...

A raging wildfire in Boulder County, Colorado, engulfed about 1,600 acres in a matter of hours, destroying hundreds of homes and forcing the evacuation...

Russian forces advanced Monday into Severodonetsk, one of the last Ukrainian strongholds in the eastern Donbas region, where Moscow is now focusing its offensive. The...

President Joe Biden's and his team is promising updated guidance on the reopening of schools next week. As more Covid-19 vaccines are being administered,...

On Tuesday, White House officials struggled to explain harrowing images of border agents brutalizing Haitian migrants, facing a growing backlash from outraged Democrats seeking...

The expansion of COVID-19 vaccination requirements across the United States has not had the desired effect, with the number of Americans receiving their first...

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

Val Demings has repeatedly chastised Republican Sen. Marco Rubio for failing to vote on a broad spending bill last week that would have allocated...

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

A California judge on Friday struck down the nation's first law requiring corporate board diversity, a measure that many workplace diversity experts had hailed...

COVID-19 vaccine developers are making increasingly bold claims that the world will require yearly booster shots or new vaccines to combat concerning coronavirus variants,...

The word is now out that there are several new strains of the coronavirus spreading around the world and now across the United States....

According to a Reuters analysis of data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) and more than a half-dozen industry officials and lobbyists,...

Officials have issued a warning about threats to the nation's infrastructure after a shooting that damaged two power substations in a North Carolina County...

Election officials in Texas are facing mounting challenges in implementing new voting procedures in time for the upcoming primaries, less than a year after...

In response to voting-related problems in Maricopa County, the Board of Supervisors in Mohave County, Arizona, became the second county to request a postponement...

Americans may soon have greater access to retirement plans and may be able to postpone withdrawing their savings as a result of new legislation...

The COVID-19 vaccine created by Johnson & Johnson started shipping out nationwide on Monday and is expected to be available by mid-week. Because Johnson &...

If you want to see what bare-knuckled political power by special interests looks like, look no further than the derailment of Sarah Bloom Raskin's...

Since December, the United States government has delivered nearly 73.4 million doses to states and jurisdictions. Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna are promising to each deliver...

To give lawmakers more time to draft a roughly $1.7 trillion appropriations package that would fund the entire fiscal year, the Democratic-led House on...

On a party-line vote, Senate Democrats approved sweeping legislation on health care, climate change, and taxes on Sunday, delivering a major victory for President...

When Apple or Samsung unveils a new smartphone, consumers can preorder the device within days and expect to get it in their hands within weeks. When Motorola introduced the first-ever...

Although the days of Russia's war in Ukraine are still being counted, images of atrocities have already numbered in the hundreds of thousands. The conflict...

The Vermont House of Representatives is scheduled to begin debate on an amendment that would enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution...

Mike Yada can still vividly recall the day in August 2020 when it became apparent that his peculiar symptoms, which had appeared after a...

According to a Google cybersecurity official and the former head of UK foreign intelligence, a new website that published leaked emails from several leading...

The Justice Department said in a court filing Thursday that the hundreds of pages of classified government records seized from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate...

"We didn't even have time to get our things," says Ukrainian refugee Ludmila Nikiforova, one of hundreds of people fleeing the brutal conflict on...

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

Yes, a small rock particle struck the Webb telescope. No, the mission is not doomed. You may have seen headlines claiming that the James Webb...

The U.S. Capitol, also known as the U.S. Capitol Building, is perhaps the most important place of business and official government gathering in the...

In some references, the surname of West Virginia's attorney general was misspelled in an earlier version of this article. Patrick Morrisey, not Morrissey, is...

As the operations in response to a visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi entered their second day, China touted its military exercises around...

Human bodies continue to emerge as the water level of the nation's largest man-made reservoir recedes due to drought. Human remains have been discovered in...

The assassination of British lawmaker David Amess has reignited concerns about a government program aimed at preventing at-risk young people from becoming radicalized, with...

Officials closed beaches in Southern California from Orange to Los Angeles counties over the holiday weekend after up to 7 million gallons of untreated...

According to reports, President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping had a contentious phone call last week. For several years, Washington has debated whether...

According to two organizations involved in the effort, more than 100 US citizens and green card holders, as well as nine special immigrant visa...

A Virginia judge has once again removed Loudoun County's progressive prosecutor from a criminal case, an extraordinary judicial intervention that raises questions about whether...

When Iranians vote for their next president in June, they will be able to choose from a field of mostly hardline candidates who are...

The State Bureau of Investigation is investigating allegations that Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff, committed election fraud. Meadows has been...

Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s former top adviser, will give testimony to the January 6 committee today. After the former president's daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump...

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

The Senate may soon put the bipartisan limits on pandemic spending to the test, as Democratic leaders prepare to introduce a small-business aid package...

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...

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 is finally a reality, after what seemed like an endless string of rumors and leaks. On Wednesday, Samsung...

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...

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...

Howard Prager, 66, and his klezmer band were set up in chairs on a slow-moving flatbed truck Monday morning as they pulled into the...

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

People vaccinated against Covid-19 in high-risk areas of the United States should resume wearing masks indoors, the country's top health official said Tuesday, reversing...

Starboard Value, an activist investor, has nominated a minority slate for Box Inc.'s board of directors, pitting its nominees against Chief Executive Officer Aaron...

Following two days of testimony from abortion experts, providers, and the state's chief medical officer, a Michigan judge barred county prosecutors from enforcing the...

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 a water crisis persists in Jackson, Mississippi, where residents' faucets are receiving brown water or nothing at all, authorities are scrambling to bring...

Andy Stone is one of the fortunate. The New Yorker saw a tweet from a local AIDS activist stating that monkeypox vaccines would be...

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...

The US Coast Guard has called off the search for nine people who went missing after a floatplane crashed in Puget Sound, northwest of...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has sent a team to New York to investigate a polio case discovered in Rockland County. The team...

  Perhaps, like millions of other Americans, you saw the General Motors ad during the Super Bowl last Sunday, that showed actor Will Ferrell exclaiming...

Miss India Harnaaz Sandhu is the new Miss Universe. The reigning Miss Universe, Andrea Meza of Mexico, crowned her successor on Sunday night at the...

An Ivy League biology professor is warning that critical race theory curricula are erasing the meaning, if not the existence, of "objective truth" from...

With approximately 100,000 Russian troops stationed near the Ukrainian border, warships stationed in the nearby Black Sea, and Russian tanks pouring in from the...

Some of the world's most famous people gathered in London on Sunday night for the first-ever "Earthshot Prize" awards ceremony, hosted by Britain's Prince...

Last summer, the Pacific Northwest of the United States was experiencing a record-breaking heat wave when a woman in her 70s was wheeled into...

Daniel Encinias stands next to his camping trailer in a New Mexico evacuation zone, vowing to rebuild his home, which was destroyed by the...

Back-to-back world leader summits in Europe begin this weekend, with the goal of rallying Western nations behind Ukraine in its fight against Russia's invasion...

Tennessee Republicans advanced legislation on Wednesday that would increase oversight of what books are placed in public school libraries, just hours after the bill's...

Last Thursday, Biden gave his first Presidential order during a speech: A huge $1.9 trillion stimulus bill that will make up the difference of...