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On Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the "Momnibus Act" into law to address racial disparities in maternal and infant health, a significant victory...

  Twitter is working to  expand their use of labels in identifying official government accounts and state-affiliated media in attempts to boost transparency. Twitter has...

The staccato rhythms of a jackhammer ricocheted off buildings on a recent sun-drenched morning as a work crew dug into a Newark street to...

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,...

New Zealand's parliament voted unanimously on Wednesday to allow mothers and their partners three days of paid bereavement leave after a miscarriage or stillbirth. While employers...

Questions about Russia's faltering military operation in Ukraine remain unanswered, as Kiev declared full control of the key eastern city of Lyman after Moscow's...

With historic abortion arguments behind them, the justices will soon begin the work of crafting a decision that could significantly limit abortion rights in...

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...

On a quiet country road, four thin metal cylinders containing the world's most potent greenhouse gas are lashed to the base of a Duke...

When the Supreme Court hears arguments in a case about whether parents can use state education funds for sectarian schools on Wednesday, the central...

Dolly Parton is one of this year's Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy recipients, having made a significant donation to help fund coronavirus vaccine research in...

Alexei Mordashov, a Russian billionaire, may have avoided a freeze on a £1 billion shareholding in Tui, the world's largest tourism company, after selling...

After being pulled over during a routine traffic stop in San Dimas, California, a woman was caught on police body camera footage verbally abusing...

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres declared Monday that the world’s failure to unite on tackling COVID-19 created wide inequalities, and he called for urgent action including...

No longer a working member of the royal family, Prince Harry has a new job: executive at a Silicon Valley startup. The Duke of...

Prince Harry and Prince William shared personal tributes on Monday to their grandfather Prince Philip, who died Friday at the age of 99. The...

Scientists traveled into the forests of northern Laos in the summer of 2020, half a year into the coronavirus pandemic, to catch bats that...

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...

The office of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has requested the appointment of a special prosecutor to consider criminal charges against nine people it...

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,...

In the United States, there is a direct relationship between education and income. People earn more money on average with each degree they obtain,...

Ian Peake, a medical student at the University of Oklahoma, spent four years shadowing doctors at a Tulsa abortion clinic because his school did...

Members of Texas Governor Greg Abbott's reelection campaign handed out empty pill bottles with a fake label attached that blamed President Joe Biden's "open...

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

In a rare criminal case involving the Kingpin Act, a U.S. judge sentenced the daughter of Mexican drug lord "El Mencho" to two years...

A new coalition of small business groups on Tuesday launched a campaign for tougher US antitrust enforcement, specifically calling for the breakup of online...

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

The film and television industry in New Mexico has reached a new high, with record spending by video production companies in a state that...

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

The wine is extraordinary. The cost is appropriately exorbitant. Christie's announced Tuesday that it will be selling a bottle of French wine that spent more...

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...

For weeks, César Salomé, a physician in Lima’s Hospital Mongrut, had followed the chilling reports. A new coronavirus variant, spawned in the Amazon rainforest,...

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...

Russia has issued a warning against a repeat of the NATO Western military alliance's bombing campaign of Yugoslavia on its 22nd anniversary, as Washington's...

On Friday, Japanese authorities were looking for a missing Ugandan weightlifter, who went missing just a week before the Tokyo Olympics, which have sparked...

The gunman who killed 17 people at a South Florida high school in 2018 is expected to be sentenced to life in prison without...

With the current surge of COVID-19 cases, New York City's new mayor, Eric Adams, who was sworn in just after midnight on New Year's...

Naomi Osaka will not win an Olympic medal on home soil after being defeated 6-1, 6-4 by Markéta Vondrouová of the Czech Republic in...

Whether you prefer to kill insects or not, there is one bug that health officials in the northeastern United States want you to get...

The elite Russian state hackers behind last year's massive SolarWinds cyberespionage campaign haven't slowed down this year, infiltrating a slew of US and allied...

The daughter of the mastermind behind Vladimir Putin's Ukraine invasion was blown to pieces in a car bomb, raising fears of a coup. Suspects in...

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden made it clear that he does not approve with other Democratic party members about cancelling $50,000 worth of student...

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

They are some of the top athletes in the world in their respective sports – elite in their training, meticulous in the preparation, the best...

Earlier this week, the Biden administration made the announcement that it would resume the efforts first put forth by the Obama administration to put...

The nation's largest utility reported to California regulators that Pacific Gas & Electric equipment may have been involved in the start of the massive...

Anderson Lee Aldrich has been named as the suspect in a shooting that occurred this past weekend at a gay nightclub in Colorado. According...

President Joe Biden is set to present the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military honor for valor, to three U.S. soldiers for their...

Newly elected President Biden signed a total of four different executive orders early on Tuesday aimed at racial equity, one of his major stances...

They once dotted shopping plazas in America with ubiquity, beckoning binge watchers with shelves of VHS cassettes, microwave popcorn and boxes of candy —...

Apple is optimistic about lidar, a technology found in the iPhone 12 family, specifically the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max. According...

Every year smart glasses threaten to become the next big thing in tech Could Facebook or a smaller player like Vuzix make this happen? The promise of...

"Tuvalu is sinking," Finance Minister Seve Paeniu declares of his island nation during an interview with Yahoo News at the United Nations Climate Change...

President Biden has started to call for Congress to pass a ban on assault weapons after yet another spate of mass shootings, despite the...

Faced with mounting pressure to relax pandemic restrictions, the White House insisted Wednesday that it is planning a less disruptive phase of the national...

A senior Taliban commander declared on Wednesday that the return of Taliban rule in Afghanistan will mean a return to sharia law, the group's...

As Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill work to complete their new reconciliation bill, a proposal to keep the expanded child tax credit may be...

The FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday that they are calling for an immediate pause on the use of the...

The majority of battleground districts in this fall's critical elections for Virginia House of Delegates are in the state's cities and suburbs, but Republicans...

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 &...

An Oklahoma judge temporarily blocked the implementation of two new anti-abortion laws that go into effect next month, including one that is similar to...

Experts have warned that unless the international community acts quickly, Afghanistan's economy will collapse. The country's cash-based economy was already struggling prior to the Taliban's...

Everyone should now be aware of the Federal Ministry of Health's vaccination program: People in Germany are divided into one of four vaccination groups...

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...

An LAPD officer has hit out at LeBron James, saying the NBA star "put a target on the back" of the cop who shot dead...

On Wednesday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell testified before the House Oversight Committee as part of an investigation into the alleged toxic workplace environment at...

Primary victories for Trump allies in Arizona and Michigan on Tuesday reaffirmed the former president's continued influence over the Republican Party, as he has...

After 16 years in power, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is about to step down as leader of Europe's largest economy. Just a few months...

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

As military setbacks in Ukraine force Russian President Vladimir Putin into a corner, an ex-CIA officer predicts that he will resort to tactical nuclear...

Did you know that nearly 60% of the universe consists of dark matter that remains unseen by us? This is a much lesser known...

Daniel Smith, an American civil rights activist and the son of a former slave, died at the age of 90, according to his wife....

The prospect of inflation reaching 12% this autumn is growing after higher fuel and food prices pushed the official measure of the cost of...

The worldwide web as we know it may be coming to an end…  Over the last year, countries across the world have established strict regulations...

Tesla just reported first-quarter vehicle production and delivery numbers for 2021. In total, it delivered 184,800 vehicles and produced 180,338 cars. Analysts were expecting...

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,...

As they drove out of the strategic eastern city of Lyman on Monday, Ukrainian soldiers waved, hooted, and raised their fists in triumph, riding...

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

Even as the US and its allies try to devise coordinated policies to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine, Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran are warning...

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...