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Approximately 1,000 Air National Guard troops assigned to space missions are experiencing identity crisis. Their units, torn between the Air Force, where they have traditionally...

Are Americans truly staying at home as a result of increased unemployment benefits? That narrative may be difficult to accept for many people who...

The Supreme Court upheld Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence on Friday, overturning a lower court decision. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was one of two brothers responsible for...

Russian forces advanced deep into the ruined eastern factory city of Sievierodonetsk on Friday, but Ukrainian troops resisted as Russia's assault on its neighbor...

Oberlin College in Ohio racked up more than $4 million in interest after failing to pay a local family-run bakery more than $30 million...

On Wednesday last week, Google's Fiona Cicconi wrote to company employees. She announced that Google was bringing forward its timetable of moving people back...

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

Uganda's schools reopened to students on Monday, bringing the world's longest school closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic to an end. The reopening caused traffic...

Restaurant and bar industry leaders demanded action from the administration hours after President Joe Biden's inaugural State of the Union speech on Tuesday night. Chefs,...

It has been a chaotic first six weeks for Biden and his new administration. With ex-President Trump's impeachment trial and a partisan split over...

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 United States Supreme Court, which expanded gun rights in a landmark decision in June, declined to hear a challenge to a federal ban...

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

Protests disrupted Prince William and Kate Middleton's tour of former British colonies in the Caribbean this week, causing the British royal family embarrassment on...

According to official counts, more people have died from Covid-19 this year than in all of 2020, highlighting how the global pandemic is far...

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

The gun violence epidemic in the United States has been described as a uniquely American problem, with calls for increased gun control or common...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under fire after a leaked video recording shows senior Downing Street staff laughing about Johnson allegedly throwing a...

According to police in Florida, two students at a Daytona Beach university may have prevented a mass shooting by informing campus security about messages...

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...

Early last March, when the COVID-19 crisis still felt like a remote threat, Charlie Baker flew off with members of his family to a...

As the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks approaches, relatives of victims are pressing courts to answer what they see as...

The pending Coinbase direct listing, scheduled for Wednesday on the Nasdaq under the symbol COIN, is exciting a broad base of the investment community...

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

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...

Soaring Covid-19 cases in Michigan – where one of the nation’s worst outbreaks is underway -- are pushing hospitals to critical capacity levels, and residents...

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...

The Biden administration's new $500 million military contract with Saudi Arabia, critics claim, goes against the spirit of the White House's public policy of...

A Portland teacher's college hired a former principal who oversaw a school-wide "antiracist" bootcamp for kids. On September 7, Portland State University's College of Education...

With the issue of voting rights and election reform resurfacing in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack anniversary and ahead of the...

According to a report released on Tuesday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of cryptocurrency goliath FTX, defrauded...

Millions of homeowners are missing out on hundreds of dollars in savings by refinancing their mortgages. According to the most recent report from a mortgage...

Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer are looking to cement their legendary status at Wimbledon, but six new names are in the last eight with...

Bill Clinton understood the anguish of the American people. Barack Obama senses their trepidation. Inflation, crime, and the economy are all causing concern. Rather than...

When the dew on Adam Thomas's Illinois farm evaporates in the morning, he begins harvesting soybeans. Dry weather accelerated the work this year, allowing...

The Olympic torch arrived in Beijing on Wednesday, kicking off the countdown to the Winter Games, which will be held in the shadow of...

Most people want to find a job that pays well and allows for some work-life balance, but they also want to be happy. After...

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

As many as 20,000 members of the national Guard could be deployed to Washington D.C. for the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden on January...

United Parcel Service is taking package delivery to new heights, literally, with the purchase of 10 electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft from Beta...

The US Treasury is revising a plan to track more Americans' bank accounts in order to limit tax evasion by the wealthy, following strong...

Twitter lost over 1.3 million users in the week following Elon Musk's $44 billion purchase of the social media platform. According to MIT Technology Review,...

President Joe Biden will visit Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Tuesday to commemorate one of the bloodiest race massacres in U.S. history, one hundred years after...

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...

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

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...

In recent months, U.S. renewable energy developers have delayed or cancelled several large battery projects intended to store electrical power on the grid, scuttling...

According to tests conducted by online pharmacy and lab Valisure, traces of a chemical linked to blood cancers such as leukemia have been detected...

Consumer staple stocks, such as PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP), can be a great addition to any long-term portfolio because they are known to perform well during...

Japan and the United States joined forces Tuesday to criticize China's “coercion and aggression" in Asia as senior ministers from both countries held their...

Paola Bezzon assumed her sniffles in December were just a seasonal cold until a serology test revealed coronavirus antibodies in her blood months later. Bezzon,...

Japan is a very popular destination for travelers and is visited by people from all over the world. It is a country full of...

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

When you are involved in a lawsuit, most likely it is for some type of deficiency judgment, which means that the court finds that...

In the final weeks before the midterm elections, Senate Democrats are playing it safe by pledging not to allow a government shutdown over Sen....

When asked what they are thankful for on Thanksgiving, the most common response is family. They are also thankful for their friends and health. This...

Looking for a new reason to exercise? Here's an example: A large international research review discovered that regular exercise appears to significantly reduce your risk...

Seychelles, which has vaccinated the most of its population against Covid-19, saw active cases more than double in the week ending May 7, raising...

As Covid-19 spread last year, governments around the world touted the prospect of “herd immunity,” a promised land in which the virus would stop...

Instagram updated its default settings for adolescent users again this week, attempting to address concerns raised by a growing body of data indicating that...

In Texas, a 26-year-old woman was charged with murder after authorities claimed she caused "the death of an individual by self-induced abortion" in the...

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...

A flight attendant for American Airlines was hospitalized after a passenger allegedly attacked her on Wednesday, in what the company's chief executive called "one...

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

After a protest at their graduation went viral, dozens of students at a private Christian university in Washington drew national attention to their school...

The trustees of the Social Security Trust Funds are expected to release their long-delayed annual report on the stability of America's core retirement program...

Pride parades began Sunday in New York City and across the country, with glittering confetti, cheering crowds, fluttering rainbow flags, and newfound fears about...

President Biden announced a new trade agreement with 12 Indo-Pacific nations on Monday, warning Americans concerned about high inflation that it will be "a...

Schools across the country are scrambling to make up for lost time during the pandemic by allocating billions of dollars to tutoring, summer camps,...

According to legislation released by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a new committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurgency at the United States Capitol would...

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...

Republicans and Democrats in a bitterly divided Washington appear to agree on one thing: the twice-yearly ritual of changing the clocks must end. Even with...

The rise of organized retail crime is a national issue that threatens to overburden local law enforcement. While the American public reads about smash-and-grab...

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams appeared to take a tenuous lead in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday, but it could be...

Dawn Beasley received a phone call in January 2020 that changed her life — and the course of a murder trial. Carl Harris was about...

The murder trial of a man accused of killing 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, in 2019 has devolved into a...

According to analysts, a recently approved Chinese tax could deal a severe economic blow to the Nicolás Maduro regime by nearly doubling the cost...

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...

The future wars are already being won by China. According to a new report from Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Beijing...

Renters who are unable to pay their landlords are being evicted, and they are outraged. They're especially irritated because their landlord is a large...