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Following a procession from Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth II's coffin arrived at Westminster Hall in central London, where it will lie in state until...

If it's Monday, President Biden says he'll meet with Putin "in principle" if Russia doesn't invade Ukraine. The United States warns that Russia has...

Two years after Congress passed legislation that improved the U.S. retirement system, lawmakers' efforts to improve it further are progressing — albeit slowly. Measures in...

Airlines for America, along with 28 other airline, travel, and business groups, wrote to White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeffrey Zients on Wednesday, urging...

According to a Reuters analysis of data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) and more than a half-dozen industry officials and lobbyists,...

President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping signaled an effort to repair strained relations between Washington and Beijing, instructing officials to resume talks on...

A white and silver space plane rocketed toward the edge of Earth's atmosphere, more than 46,000 feet above the stark New Mexico desert, propelled...

​​West Virginia University researchers believe they have discovered living microorganisms in a halite sample dating back 830 million years, providing insight into past life...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has sent a team to New York to investigate a polio case discovered in Rockland County. The team...

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...

According to the platform targeted in the hack, hackers have returned nearly all of the $600 million stolen in one of the largest cryptocurrency...

Charges against police officers, public safety workers and military veterans in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol have reignited concerns among lawmakers and...

The Iranian government denied responsibility for the attack on Salman Rushdie on Monday, saying it had never heard of the man who allegedly stabbed...

NATO's rapid reaction force will be nearly eightfold increased to 300,000 troops as part of its response to a "era of strategic competition," according...

Kenyan manufacturers are concerned there could be delays in delivery of raw materials from global markets and export of cargo from Mombasa, following the...

Denise Forcer would become stressed just by opening her closet door for months. The suffocation of her belongings reminded her that she didn't know...

This week's earthquake in southwestern China killed at least 65 people and sparked outrage over orders for residents to remain in coronavirus lockdown rather...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren made fighting corruption her top priority during the 2020 Democratic primary. It may not have appeared that way in the press,...

The first pieces of meteorite to be found in the UK for three decades have been discovered in a village in the Cotswolds. Scientists have...

With the evacuation of some civilians from a steel mill besieged by Russian forces in the port of Mariupol, attention is turning to the...

Tuesday was a resounding rejection of former President Donald J. Trump's obsessive focus on the 2020 election. In Georgia, his choices for governor and...

The Food and Drug Administration approved COVID-19 booster shots for all adults at least six months after their initial shots with the Moderna or...

Nvidia has been a top investment this year, with share prices of the graphics card specialist skyrocketing nearly 133 percent in 2021 due to...

According to new data released on Thursday, child poverty increased in January following the end of President Joe Biden's child allowance. According to a study...

A Turkish court on Wednesday jailed 32 former soldiers for life in a mass trial involving nearly 500 military defendants implicated in a failed...

Travis Scott speaks out in his first interview since the Astroworld music festival tragedy, which claimed the lives of ten people. In an hour-long sit-down...

Running a business in Afghanistan has one unspoken rule: Pay the Taliban. Abdul Ahad Wahidi learned that the hard way when insurgents blew up...

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...

According to newly released confidential filings submitted by his accountants to the hotel's landlord, the General Services Administration, former President Donald Trump's luxury hotel...

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

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

Prejudice and discrimination based on age is widespread around the world, affecting millions of older and younger people trying to work and get health...

The federal government set out to add thousands of medical workers to its emergency reserve nearly two years before COVID-19 was declared a national...

Analysts are updating their views on Netflix's outlook after the streaming giant reported better-than-expected third-quarter subscriber growth and forecasting stronger fourth-quarter momentum late Tuesday....

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

Reshad Jalali was nine years old when U.S.-backed forces ousted the Taliban from Kabul in 2001, and he recalls hearing Afghan singers on the...

Uvalde's pain is only getting worse after a week. The initial details of the evil unleashed on defenseless schoolchildren by an 18-year-old armed with a...

President Joe Biden announced a plan on Thursday to release roughly 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation's strategic petroleum reserve...

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...

Plastic is almost certainly in your food or drinking water, and scientists are now concerned that it may be coursing through your veins. Microplastics —...

"Fitbit, Apple, and Samsung have defined what a wearable can do, and I believe Movano, Oura, and other companies will begin to redefine that...

Yolanda Renee King is a seasoned speaker and activist at the age of 13. Many people may have noticed similarities between her and her grandfather,...

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

When a person or persons belonging to any nationality wish to go outside their own country for some reason, one of the first things...

When members of the country's ruling Communist Party extend Xi Jinping's third term as general secretary at the Party's 20th National Congress, he will...

On Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected yet another major challenge to the Affordable Care Act, allowing the 2010 law to stand despite Republican objections...

According to reports, President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping had a contentious phone call last week. For several years, Washington has debated whether...

When Philadelphia's mayor signs landmark legislation this week, the city will become the first major US city to prohibit police from stopping drivers for...

It is unusual for a state to refuse federal funds. It is even rarer to see states refuse it in the name of improving...

A complete ban on abortion may soon take effect in Nebraska. Abortion restrictions in Florida may be lowered from 15 to 12 weeks 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...

Elaine Moore's family is running out of an increasingly valuable resource as California's drought worsens: water. This summer, two Central Valley almond growers' wells ran...

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...

What does the dawning of the age of the internet in the late 1990s have to do with cryptocurrencies? Ask Ryan Jacob, chief investment...

On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed the Equality Act for the second time in two years. The first time around the bill was...

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

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...

Finland and Sweden formally applied for NATO membership on Wednesday, a move that, if approved, would fundamentally transform Northern Europe's security landscape and provide...

Ten people were killed Monday, including a police officer, when a gunman opened fire at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, the second mass shooting in the U.S. in...

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

China accused the Biden administration on Thursday of playing politics and avoiding responsibility by calling for a new investigation into the origins of the...

The rare clash this week between the Biden administration and congressional Democrats over a lapsed eviction moratorium may serve as a model for larger...

Grannies congregate in China's public parks and squares in the early hours of the morning or late in the afternoon. The gangs, mostly made up...

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...

Raven Saunders, the American shot-putter who delivered the first political demonstration on the podium at the Tokyo Olympics by raising her arms and crossing...

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...

The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan has heightened the importance of Vice President Kamala Harris' tour of Southeast Asia, where she will try to reassure...

  President Joe Biden and his administration are planning to share with the public Tuesday that they will begin distributing a limited number of COVID-19 vaccines straight...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito mocked prominent figures around the world for speaking out against the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, including Prince...

An industry alliance led by Apple, Google, Amazon, and other tech companies will begin certifying smart home devices later this year, taking the technology...

The woman who accused Trevor Bauer of sexual assault testified tearfully on Monday about her two encounters with him at his Pasadena home earlier...

Fighting near Ukraine's largest nuclear power plant has fueled fears of an international nuclear disaster, and world leaders are concerned. Foreign ministers from the Group...

Parler, a social media company and app similar to Twitter that caters to conservative and right-wing users, announced that it would be relaunching its...

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

On Monday, hundreds of would-be rescuers laboriously dug through a mountain of crushed concrete, mangled steel, and smashed belongings as officials vowed to continue...

In recent weeks, China's drones have been a consistent part of its military activity around Taiwan, demonstrating new capabilities and increasing pressure on the...

By the end of last year, Hasten Carter's cryptocurrency holdings had grown to around $250,000. He upgraded to a nicer apartment, purchased a new...

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

A new report from California's first-ever reparations task force explains how slavery affected nearly every aspect of Black life in America, causing "innumerable harms"...

In response to remarks he made in an interview with the prestigious Jesuit magazine America, Russia has accused Pope Francis of lying and engaging...