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The skies over a number of Western U.S. cities will remain dark for the third year in a row as some major fireworks displays...

Portland's official slogan is "The City That Works," but many residents believe the city is anything but that after a turbulent few years. Homelessness and...

The Supreme Court of the United States has consistently prohibited school-sponsored prayer in public schools. Simultaneously, lower courts have generally prohibited public school employees...

The sight was breathtaking. Last weekend, as COVID-19 cases soared in the United States, the city's downtown was a sea of mostly unmasked humanity...

As New Zealand prepares to implement one of the world's toughest anti-smoking laws, a similar ban has already been implemented in a Boston suburb...

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told the conservative Next News Network in June, "I'm a Christian, and I say it proudly, we should be...

How much should CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart pharmacies pay in damages to two Ohio counties to help them deal with the opioid crisis? That is...

Under a new bill introduced by Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and John Boozman (R-Ariz.), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission would take the lead in...

PayPal Holdings Inc will raise merchant fees for its branded payment products while lowering fees for behind-the-scenes processing of some Visa and Mastercard transactions,...

During a Sunday morning interview, Marc Short, the former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, pushed back against the Republican National Committee's...

Extinction Rebellion is planning to step up its campaign against the banking system with a series of direct-action protests and debt strikes in the...

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...

According to a top federal health official, the highly transmissible Delta variant of the coronavirus now accounts for 83 percent of all sequenced cases...

Due to the possibility of Russian military action, the State Department has ordered families of US embassy employees in Kyiv, Ukraine, to leave the...

Investors in retirement have never had it so good. Individual retirement accounts and company 401(k) plans have been booming for a decade now, thanks...

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...

In a wave of communal unrest, rival Arab and Jewish mobs carried out beatings and torching cars on the streets of Israel late Wednesday. As...

Mobile network operator Safaricom has launched a 5G network in Kenya, making it the second country in Africa to roll out the technology. The...

President Joe Biden praised New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Tuesday for her success in combating domestic extremism and gun violence, as he...

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

Charlie Crist committed the ultimate political sin, according to some: he switched parties. The former Florida governor ran as a Republican, then as an independent,...

The Supreme Court has expanded parents' and students' rights to use government subsidies to attend religious schools, overturning a Maine program that prohibited the...

Because of the Ukraine invasion, a proposal that the European Union ban visas for all Russian tourists has sparked a debate in the continent's...

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...

In his court filing regarding the seizure of materials from his Florida resort, Donald Trump appeared to concede that he unlawfully retained official government...

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,...

At a recent Virginia rally, Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin touted his plans to boost the economy and combat crime while saying nothing about...

Zeeshan Aleem, an MSNBC opinion columnist, slammed President Joe Biden on Monday for his latest "bumbling" foreign policy gaffe on Taiwan. Aleem slammed the president's...

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...

The Ohio Department of Agriculture raided the home of Rico Exotic, a popular TikToker, because he owns a monkey classified as a dangerous wild...

Melania Trump has refused to rule out a second term as first lady if her husband is re-elected. "Never say never," she counseled. Donald Trump has...

It's been two years since the coronavirus pandemic upended people's lives all over the world. Although the nationwide quarantine was intended to last only 14...

Western weapons are now being used in the fight for Ukraine. However, putting them into action on the front lines is causing serious problems...

Heading into Wednesday's slate of games, the Lakers find themselves sitting fourth in the Western Conference at 28-16 overall behind only the Jazz (31-11), Suns (29-13) and Clippers (28-16;...

The diverging fortunes of major banks in the fallout from the Archegos Capital Management meltdown has posed serious questions for global regulators, experts have...

The Labor Department reported on Thursday that an inflation barometer that is the Federal Reserve's preferred indicator of pricing pressure rose at an annual...

On Wednesday, India reported more coronavirus deaths in a single day than any other country during the pandemic, while infections spread through vast rural...

Dozens of women have protested the formation of an all-male interim Taliban government to rule Afghanistan in Kabul and the north-eastern Afghan province of...

The government announced on Monday that all adults in the United Kingdom will be able to get their booster Covid-19 vaccine doses three months...

Britain awoke Friday without its queen for the first time in 70 years. And, as the country entered a lengthy period of national mourning...

After a campaign overshadowed by the war in neighboring Ukraine, official results from Hungary's general election on Sunday showed nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban's...

On Friday, congressional representatives screamed on the Capitol steps about Christianity, among other things. High-volume theological debates are rarely illuminating. This one, on the...

Oklahoma is set to execute Benjamin Cole, a 57-year-old man convicted of the murder of his 9-month-old daughter, on Thursday, continuing a string of...

As the number of Covid-19 hospitalizations exceeds those seen during the Delta variant surge in the summer and fall, more states are enacting emergency...

The US drug epidemic exploded while Americans were locked up, fueled by the coronavirus pandemic and an increase in fentanyl use. According to preliminary data...

In Colorado, Trump supporters seeking evidence of 2020 election fraud have flooded some county offices with so many records requests that officials say they...

Allen Weisselberg, Donald Trump's chief financial officer, is expected to plead guilty to tax violations Thursday in a deal that would require him to...

Ronald Rhoades and his coworkers formed a union last October, concerned about unsafe rigging, overcrowding, and other conditions at the Morton, Illinois, shop where...

Virginia Republicans chose not to support Amanda Chase, a self-described "Trump in heels," in her bid to defeat Democrats for the governor's seat in...

As the first year of President Donald Trump's zero-tolerance border policy comes to a close, the Biden administration's effort to reunite separated children and...

Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre said in a statement to Fox News Digital that he had been "unjustly smeared in the media"...

Following Katie Britt's victory over Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., in Tuesday's GOP primary runoff election, Alabama voters will decide who will be their next...

The second-in-command of New York Governor Kathy Hochul was indicted on federal bribery charges for allegedly funneling illegal donations to one of his previous...

The United States Soccer Federation reached landmark agreements to pay its men's and women's teams equally, making the American national governing body the first...

A federal judge has ordered Alabama to stop being vague and to provide a firm answer by Thursday evening on whether the prison system...

Following the shocking leak last week of a draft Supreme Court opinion indicating the court's conservative majority may soon overturn Roe v. Wade, Senate...

There's a reason why so many seniors rush to file for Social Security at the age of 62: it's the earliest age to begin...

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...

A prominent TV celebrity and former socialite with close family ties to President Vladimir Putin has fled Russia in the aftermath of a criminal...

Science and technology (S&T) underpins everyday life, from extreme weather to vaccines to remote learning and virtual working. However, according to the US Department...

A Haitian man arrested on suspicion of playing a key role in President Jovenel Mose's assassination appears to have presented himself as a potential...

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

Authorities have ruled homicide in the death of a University of Nevada, Las Vegas student who collapsed after taking part in a charity amateur...

A federal court ruled this week that the state of Alabama cannot execute a death row prisoner by lethal injection because the man chose...

The Republican Conference's second-highest ranking member publicly called for the removal of GOP conference chair Liz Cheney, who has repeatedly criticized former President Trump...

The word "Democrat" was conspicuously absent from a recent news release by Colorado congressional candidate Adam Frisch. Frisch, a former city councilman from the posh,...

Residents of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson have suspected Russian forces had a special plan for their town since the occupiers took control...

The White House warned Russia that using tactical or strategic nuclear weapons in Ukraine would have "catastrophic consequences," according to a top Biden administration...

A toxic invasive species that can be fatal if consumed is wreaking havoc on parks, flower beds, and backyard gardens. Poison hemlock, also known as...

Colonial Williamsburg, a living history museum in Virginia that continues to reckon with its past storytelling about the country's origins and the role of...

Even as the Omicron variant engulfs the United Kingdom and threatens to put the economy into reverse, the Bank of England is raising interest...

In a rare public admission, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the four Ukrainian provinces that his country is partially occupying present...

The simple act of dehumanizing someone or someone has given permission to some of the darkest instincts in politics. When you forget they're someone's...

Florida Democrats are raising concerns about what they believe is a sustained and coordinated campaign to smear Vice President Kamala Harris' image in Spanish-language...

The Federal Reserve closed a chapter on its aggressive, pandemic-driven stimulus on Wednesday, approving plans to begin tapering its bond-buying program this month, amid...

Buses transported civilians out of one besieged Ukrainian city and supplies to another on Tuesday, as officials attempted to move people away from a...

The United States and many other countries around the world are heavily investing in solar power as an energy source as part of a...

The Supreme Court has significantly limited the scope of the country's main cybercrime law, limiting a tool that civil liberties advocates say federal prosecutors...

The coronavirus mutant that is now prevalent in the United States is an omicron family member, but scientists say it spreads faster than omicron...

President Joe Biden said on Sunday that a new US-EU trade agreement would crack down on "dirty steel," which emits carbon emissions blamed for...