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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...

If you've visited a McDonald's in the last century, you've probably had the harrowing experience of being denied the frosty treat you crave because...

Authorities seized a helicopter and an airplane belonging to Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk and his family and turned them over to the Armed Forces. The...

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...

The former president of the Human Rights Campaign, the country's largest LGBTQ advocacy organization, filed a federal lawsuit against the organization on Thursday, alleging...

In one of the worst droughts in history, illegal marijuana growers are taking uncontrolled amounts of water across the western United States, leaving little...

A Norfolk, Nebraska, mother and daughter are facing criminal charges in connection with an alleged self-managed abortion earlier this year. It's a scenario that...

According to US Navy officials, Beijing's claim that it drove away one of its warships that passed through the disputed Paracel Islands on Monday...

On Wednesday, a person started shooting close to a Duke Energy facility at Wateree Hydro Station in Ridgeway, South Carolina, according to CBS News. Several...

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...

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued broad new directives to immigration officers on Thursday, stating that being an undocumented immigrant "should not alone be...

The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) enforcement division resigned on Wednesday in response to a federal judge's order that could raise...

For the first time, the United States has been added to an annual list of "backsliding" democracies, according to the International IDEA think-tank, citing...

On Wednesday, an Ohio doctor was found not guilty of 14 counts of murder after being accused of overprescribing fentanyl to his critically ill...

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...

According to court documents obtained by Law&Crime, the man accused of a racist attack on a Buffalo, New York grocery store was charged with...

President Joe Biden, the most pro-labor president in recent memory, personally participated in negotiations that resulted in a tentative labor agreement that prevented a...

Ireland's government met on Tuesday to discuss contingency planning in the event of a European Union trade war with the United Kingdom, according to...

The Biden administration is restoring California's authority to set its own automobile tailpipe pollution standards, reversing a Trump administration policy and likely ushering in...

Selena Gomez spoke to Vulture ahead of the release of her Apple TV+ documentary My Mind and Me on Friday, discussing everything from how...

Are you loving more you time while working from home? New research brought about during the pandemic shows that home-working employees in several countries are...

The Great War began on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918. During the four years of global conflict, the United States...

Later this month, U.S. intelligence agencies will deliver to Congress a highly anticipated unclassified report on what they know about UFOs, or Unexplained Aerial...

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...

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...

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...

The Supreme Court ruled against a man who sued a Customs and Border Protection agent for excessive force on Wednesday, entering the contentious issue...

According to reports, Chinese-owned TikTok is working feverishly to transfer all data it has on US users to the US and put an American...

Democrats, according to DeSantis, are attempting to 'drive dissension' among Republicans by spreading a false narrative about his relationship with Trump. Republicans, including Republican Florida...

Former NFL coach Urban Meyer attended former President Donald Trump's annual Super Bowl party on Sunday night, where guests dined on a game-day menu...

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

A federal judge has denied President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani's request for the return of a trove of digital information seized by the...

Following the case of an unvaccinated elderly woman who was found to be infected with both the alpha and beta variants of Covid-19, experts...

President Emmanuel Macron may not have to wait long to learn how poorly his re-election has been received in some parts of France. In Sunday's...

Mr. Musk, who was attempting to take Tesla, his electric car company, private, questioned Mr. Dell about the process and the best lawyers to...

During a joint press conference in India on Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged that the situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating, noting that...

As questions about safety protocols on the "Rust" movie set linger, where Alec Baldwin killed a cinematographer with a prop gun he was told...

According to video evidence, the Republican Party is forming a grassroots "army" to target and potentially overturn election results in Democratic precincts. The alleged scheme...

In its preliminary findings of an investigation into Apple's App Store, the European Commission found the company to be in violation of EU competition...

As the world suffers from a punishing drought this summer, bodies of water have dried up, exposing submerged World War II relics in Europe,...

Promises, big asks, and optics are common for many of our CEOs. However, a lack of follow-through is eroding trust, which bodes ill for...

For most original Medicare enrollment includes automatic enrollment at the time of turning 65. Medicare Advantage enrollment varies depending on the plan chosen. The...

The Biden administration is moving forward with plans to wind down the long-term detention of migrant families, according to documents filed late Friday in...

According to Lindell, FBI agents seized a cellphone belonging to Mike Lindell, the founder of MyPillow and a prominent election denier, as part of...

Onstage at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, Dave Chappelle was assaulted by a man who ran up and tackled the...

One of the world's largest private charities' founders have pledged to continue their philanthropic work together. Some experts, however, believe that this may be...

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...

The FBI has the authority right now to access privately owned computers without their owners’ knowledge or consent, and to delete software. It’s part...

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...

The family of Daunte Wright gathered around his white coffin draped in red roses Wednesday, taking in one of the last times they would...

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...

Western powers chose not to intervene in Bosnia for four years following the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. During the 1992-1995 war, more...

New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams appointed Keechant Sewell, a Long Island police official, as the city's next police commissioner, making her the nation's...

What could possibly be superior to a single, extensive high-speed rail network? Three or four that are in competition with one another appear to...

A judge recently ordered a New York woman to remove a Confederate flag-adorned rock from her home or risk losing custody of her biracial...

Tens of thousands of Afghan nationals risked their lives to help the US military in Afghanistan, many of them as interpreters alongside American soldiers...

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...

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...

A new study of blood samples from 24,000 Americans taken early last year is the latest and largest to suggest that the new coronavirus...

The rate at which the world’s forests are being destroyed increased sharply last year, with at least 42,000 sq km of tree cover lost...

Authorities said Wednesday that a shooting at a rail yard in San Jose, California, killed ten people, including the gunman, and injured others. Many...

A Michigan mother who is suing her children's school district for failing to provide curriculum for a "Ethnic and Gender Studies" class believes that...

Many religious leaders who support the anti-abortion movement have praised the new Texas law that prohibits most abortions in the state. However, some abortion...

Iryna Nikolaieva sat in a stairwell of a Kyiv bomb shelter where she had been living for three days and called engineers at two...

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

Hundreds of people demonstrated in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Tuesday against what they claim are Taliban orders for citizens to leave their homes on the...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made his first public appearance in more than a month, visiting a new state-built alpine city billed as...

Chrissy Teigen is reflecting on herself following her cyberbullying scandal. During an appearance on the Today show on Tuesday morning, the 35-year-old author of Cravings:...

Tesla's Chinese sales last month were significantly lower than expected. Although Tesla does not report monthly sales or regional revenue, the China Passenger Car...

A sentence uttered by a defense attorney during the trial of those accused in the death of Ahmaud Arbery elicited an audible gasp from...

The United States passed a significant milestone this week, with the White House reporting that more than half of all adults in the country...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sought a record-tying third term on Tuesday, while Democrat Beto O'Rourke sought an upset in America's largest red state in...

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,...

Tens of thousands of Russians are still attempting to flee the country, fearful of being caught up in President Vladimir Putin's last-minute military mobilization...

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...

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

A recent federal government study found that, while the student population in American public schools has grown significantly more diverse, segregation remains a persistent...

The House of Representatives is poised this week to pass President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan with $1,400 checks, billions for vaccines,...

Historians consider it the worst Native American massacre in US history. Despite this, few people have heard of it. According to historians and tribal leaders,...

In a statement sent on the heels of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's impassioned address to the United States Congress on Wednesday, Donald Trump boasted...