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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...

Republican Missouri state Sen. Mike Moon believes that Covid-19 vaccinations should be discontinued, particularly among children, until the long-term effects are known. He cites...

Nearly three weeks after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration is still determining the most effective way to get military aid into the...

The White House prepared for harsh congressional inquiries as soon as President Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal started to go wrong, with chaos at Kabul's airport,...

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

One month has passed since a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School, and a series of new revelations about...

Criminal statutes cited by the Justice Department in the search of Donald Trump's Florida estate for mishandled documents are rarely prosecuted, according to legal...

According to a report released Friday, no school year in the United States has seen as much gunfire in nearly a decade as the...

A large study conducted in the United States to determine whether vaccination protects against long-term covid found only a minor protective effect: Vaccination appeared...

The state's highest court ruled on Monday that the practice of allowing doctors to give mentally competent patients with terminal illnesses a lethal dose...

US carrier Southwest Airlines agreed to buy 100 additional Boeing 737 MAX planes, the companies announced Monday, in a vote of confidence for the...

Jussie Smollett will testify again in his Chicago trial on Tuesday, where the former "Empire" actor called claims that he staged an anti-gay, racist...

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...

Nepal underestimated its second wave of Covid-19 infections and needs to ramp up its response, Nepali billionaire Binod Chaudhary said last week. He also...

In the last 24 hours, the price of Polygon (also known as MATIC on the cryptocurrency market) has risen by approximately 9%. According to...

Ohio voters will go to the polls in less than a week for the Republican Senate midterm primary election, which will be the first...

Women's health clinics in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and elsewhere are reporting an influx of out-of-state patients from Texas seeking abortions and other services, just weeks...

A running joke among Twitter employees is that being on the platform is like playing a massive online multiplayer game where the main character...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a Washington regulator that almost no one has heard of, is suddenly gaining a lot of attention—and for...

Authorities say the man arrested after a 30-hour manhunt in the shooting of ten people on a subway train in Brooklyn will appear in...

The 2020 census was planned well in advance to ensure that Native Americans living on reservations were counted more accurately than they were in...

Tennis player Peng Shuai, "X-Men" actress Fan Bingbing, and Alibaba founder Jack Ma were all favorites of the Chinese government, demonstrating that Beijing's influence...

After her grandfather died, the girl and her uncle traveled from Guatemala to the Texas border. They were separated by Border Patrol agents. According to...

Japan has almost overnight become a stunning, if somewhat mysterious, coronavirus success story. Every day, a new COVID- From a peak of nearly 6,000...

Europe reported its first case of the rapidly spreading new coronavirus variant, and dozens of countries restricted travel to and from southern Africa, where...

The economy added only 210,000 jobs in November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the unemployment rate fell to 4.2 percent from...

Gaston, a 57-year-old Venezuelan human rights lawyer, spent years visiting the country's most deplorable prisons defending students imprisoned for protesting the socialist government. Fearing retaliation...

Faced with a resurgence of COVID-positive patients — and a stubborn aversion to vaccines among many Miami-Dade residents and even its own employees —...

When Rebecca Firlit joined a virtual court hearing with her ex-husband earlier this month, she expected the proceedings to revolve around child support. The...

On Friday morning, the death toll in Eastern Kentucky rose to 16, including two children, after torrential rains flooded the region, destroying hundreds of...

The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine may be less effective in people with obesity, data suggests. Italian researchers have discovered that healthcare workers with obesity produced only about...

Three Russian cosmonauts are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on Friday, in what should be a routine mission to the orbiting...

Can humanity be saved by a nudge rather than a bang if an asteroid is hurtling toward Earth? NASA is planning a first-of-its-kind mission to...

According to reports, the Israeli government is forming a task force to deal with the fallout from the Pegasus project revelations about the use...

Judge in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin granted prosecutors’ request to add third-degree murder charge Thursday, giving the jury more...

In connection with fraud-related investigations, the US Secret Service is cracking down on illegal digital currency transactions, seizing more than $102 million in cryptocurrency...

Two law enforcement officials said a former New York City police union president who has clashed with city officials over his insulting tweets and...

While the United States is the world's largest producer of oil, it is also the world's largest gas guzzler. The cost of this valuable resource...

There is a debate going on among President Joe Biden and his administration to enforce “priority” access for teachers to get the COVID-19 vaccine...

As world leaders prepare for the COP26 climate summit on October 31, AFP Fact Check investigates some common claims that call into question the...

Russia has officially begun the main phase of massive joint military exercises in Belarus, despite Western countries' warnings that Russian forces massed near Ukraine...

Maricopa County officials on Wednesday refuted nearly every claim in an error-riddled report commissioned by Arizona Senate Republicans on the 2020 election that cast...

When the US State Department announced the new International Anticorruption Champions Award last month, it set off ripples of media coverage across the world. The...

Authorities in Idaho arrested 31 people Saturday who were seen gathering near a Pride parade in the city of Coeur d'Alene and are believed...

Assume you didn't pay your cable or internet bill, and instead of disconnecting service or sending the bill to collections, the company filed a...

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...

The city of Philadelphia announced Monday that mask mandates will be reinstated next week, less than a month after they were lifted across the...

When Donald Trump ran for president in 2016, he promised to put the Supreme Court on a path to “automatically” overturn the decades-old precedent...

Despite being required by federal law, the Marine Corps is the only branch of the United States military that has yet to implement full-gender...

According to senior administration officials and others briefed on the material, the US has obtained intelligence about a Russian plan to use a faked...

According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, a gunman opened fire in a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, killing at least 19 children...

Julia Ma did something last week that the majority of people in the United States cannot: she received an authorized second COVID-19 booster shot...

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

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...

Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker is set to campaign with Florida Sen. Rick Scott and Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton on Tuesday, the latest...

A group of men detained at Arkansas' Washington County Detention Center claim that the jail's medical staff gave them the anti-parasite drug ivermectin without...

As the United States increases pressure on Russia in response to fears of a Ukrainian invasion, Russia's leader, Vladimir V. Putin, has found solace...

In the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the threat of the Omicron variant, New York City is hosting a "scaled back" version...

Halfway through the NFL season, there have already been two coaching changes, with Indianapolis firing Frank Reich this week, four weeks after Carolina fired...

In Haiti, nearly 150 people have been killed and scores have been injured in gunfights between warring gangs, as the latest wave of violence...

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...

Viktor Orbán, Hungary's far-right prime minister, is hoping Donald Trump will visit Budapest in the coming weeks to help his reelection campaign. According to a...

The Pentagon is reconsidering its arsenal in light of the intense firefight over Ukraine. Would the United States have enough ammunition to fight if...

Following a second consecutive year in which the word "unprecedented" did more than its fair share of narrative heavy lifting, economists are wary of...

According to Ukrainian authorities, Russian artillery pounded Ukrainian defense positions in the country's east as Moscow stepped up its efforts to seize more territory...

The Navy will appeal a Hawaii Department of Health order to halt operations at a fuel site linked to contaminated tap water at Joint...

Former Vice President Mike Pence's advocacy group released a new agenda on Thursday, which many see as the first step toward a possible presidential...

Russia has upped its saber rattling in Eastern Europe and the Arctic, a move that has put the Biden administration on alert. In the past...

On Wednesday, Republicans laid the blame for their defeat in the Georgia U.S. Senate runoff election squarely at the feet of former President Donald...

Russian forces are building new defensive positions miles behind the current front lines of the Ukraine war, according to Britain's defense ministry, indicating that...

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,...

Michelle Lockhart had to work two jobs as a teenager in Atlanta, as a camp counselor and a fast-food worker, to support her family. She...

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...

Americans celebrating their newfound liberty are expected to travel and gather in unprecedented numbers for cookouts, fireworks, and family reunions over the Fourth of...

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...

North Carolina's delegation remained divided during a vote on a bill aimed at preventing another attempt to overturn a presidential election on Wednesday. "This bill...

Elise Stefanik and Chip Roy pitched their House GOP colleagues on their cases to be the conference's next No. 3 leader on Thursday night,...

Ten years after American journalist Austin Tice went missing in Syria, his family is still waiting for the US government to take action. Keep...

After months of frustration and delay, Japan has achieved the remarkable feat of producing one million vaccines per day. But, with the Olympics beginning...

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...