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As he arrived at an EU summit dominated by growing controversy over the issue, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban defended a new law in...

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...

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...

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

Tom Amenta, a Chicago native who enlisted in the US military against his family's wishes, said he found himself in the "middle of nowhere,"...

Republicans have frequently had to awkwardly defend or flat-out denounce the actions of former President Donald Trump. And it's unlikely to be the last time...

Some Republican states are expanding unemployment benefits for employees who were fired or quit due to vaccine mandates, a move that critics say effectively...

As of October of this year, the United States had experienced 18 weather and climate disasters, each with losses in excess of $1 billion....

Plumes of smoke rose Wednesday above a part of Myanmar's biggest city under martial law which has turned into a battle zone, with burning...

A former Irish soldier was convicted of belonging to the so-called Islamic State (IS) terror group. Lisa Smith, a former member of the Defence Forces,...

Hillary Clinton's newly discovered tweets from the days leading up to the 2016 presidential election show the candidate pushing now-debunked information that Donald Trump...

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

The raging floodwaters that killed or went missing dozens of people in eastern Kentucky also washed away some of the region's irreplaceable history. Appalshop, a...

Crews battling the largest wildfire in California this year braced for thunderstorms and hot, windy conditions that could lead to additional fire growth on...

Marleine Bastien is unfazed by most things. She fled Port-au-Prince for Miami in 1981 after growing up under the brutal dictatorship of François "Papa...

The United States Soccer Federation reached landmark agreements to pay its men's and women's teams equally, making the American national governing body the first...

On Wednesday, October 12, a Connecticut jury determined that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who hosts the popular online show "Infowars," spread egregious lies about...

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...

Districts are planning to ramp up COVID-19 testing when classes resume in January, anticipating steep challenges in reopening schools amid an omicron-driven surge of...

While COVID-19 has brought its fair share of disaster to many companies and industries in its entirety, it has significantly impacted hemp producers in...

Greta Thunberg was not officially invited to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, but she made her presence known on the first day of...

According to a report released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, death rates for Americans aged 15 and older rose sharply...

An unusual security breach of an election system in a rural Colorado county has triggered a criminal investigation and prompted state authorities to suspend...

You might believe that store and restaurant workers in the United States who catch Covid-19 stay at home to recover and keep the public...

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

"There would be no Starbucks without us," said Casey Moore, who wants to unionize with dozens of other employees at the American coffee chain. Management,...

The United States and Ukraine have thwarted Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to distort the narrative of his brutal war, but they are still...

Critics argue that a new Texas law restricting abortions to a brief window around six weeks after conception is both extremely restrictive and extremely...

Women can always give their babies up for adoption, so abortions are unnecessary. That appeared to be Justice Amy Coney Barrett's argument during oral...

Senate Democrats scrambled on Thursday to rally behind a broad election reform bill ahead of a vote next week, with a key member of...

Thousands of Afghans who assisted the US military or who are vulnerable in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan are arriving in the US, where they are staying...

The Supreme Court has significantly limited the scope of the country's main cybercrime law, limiting a tool that civil liberties advocates say federal prosecutors...

A Chicago publicist for hip-hop artist Kanye West visited the suburban home of Ruby Freeman, a terrified Georgia election worker who was facing death...

According to a new Human Rights Watch report, the Taliban killed or disappeared more than 100 former Afghan security forces members in four provinces...

A former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent known to drug dealers as the "white devil" was sentenced Thursday to more than 13 years in...

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

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...

Ryan Serhant was pleased but skeptical when he received an offer last fall for one of his listings, a roughly $25 million Downtown Manhattan...

Just moments after the Brigham Young University Cougars scored their first touchdown during Saturday's football game, University of Oregon students erupted in a chant...

A family who lost their home earlier this month in a deadly fire that started at a sawmill in the Northern California town of...

Kristin Riott is the executive director of Bridging the Gap, a nonprofit in Kansas City, Missouri that works on climate change and other environmental...

Nordstrom was hit harder than most retailers by the pandemic. Its product assortment has traditionally been skewed toward fashion apparel and footwear, but with...

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

A US basketball player from Maryland was in Ukraine playing in international leagues about a week ago. He had no idea that within days...

The annual Waukesha Christmas Parade was supposed to be a joyous occasion, bringing the community together after a difficult year dealing with Covid and...

One of Donald Trump's many rants about the House Select Committee hearing on Tuesday was perhaps the most revealing. "Her body language is that of...

After a winter storm pounded the mid-Atlantic and dumped more than a foot of snow in some places, ice and snow stranded scores of...

Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger said on Sunday that he received a letter in the mail a few days ago threatening to execute him,...

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...

Federal intelligence officials issued a forewarning to police departments across the country in April 2009. "Right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans...

Tom Brady secured his 7th ring on Sunday with a 31-9 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. An overwhelming performance along with his 5th...

Texas Democrats and activists are warning that Governor Greg Abbott's executive order on immigration bears dangerous resemblances to Arizona's hardline SB-1070 law, which resulted...

Whenever a bus arrives at the Greyhound station in Plattsburgh, New York, a small group of taxi drivers awaits to transport passengers on a...

It was the seventh day of the freediving world championship, which was being streamed live online from Cyprus. Women in the constant weight category...

As the country grapples with both vaccine hesitancy and a lack of supplies, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to arrest anyone who refuses...

Tropical rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate, and according to a bleak new report by the non-governmental organization Rainforest Foundation Norway, humans are...

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...

Voters in the city rejected a ballot measure to overhaul policing that was drafted amid national outrage over the death of George Floyd by...

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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...

Sen. Bernie Sanders' political team has noticed a significant shift in the 80-year-old former presidential candidate in recent months: his campaign fires are burning...

Records show that the Indiana doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio reported the procedure to the Indiana Department...

Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth and a leading figure in the British royal family for almost seven decades, has died aged 99,...

“All my life, my ambition was to be a star,” Jackie Mason once said, but few stars had a slower or more circuitous path...

Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID), the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, is emphasizing the importance of ensuring that any international tax agreement does...

The New York Working Families Party is bolstering four of their New York City congressional favorites by endorsing incumbents in newly redrawn districts. The left-wing...

The coronavirus mutant that is now prevalent in the United States is an omicron family member, but scientists say it spreads faster than omicron...

At least 69 people have died in the Vancouver area of Canada as a result of a record-breaking heat wave that has engulfed the...

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...

For years, the Chinese Communist Party has been building a moral ranking system that will monitor the behavior of its vast population and rank...

Ukrainian authorities announced more rolling blackouts in and around the country's major cities on Friday, amid ongoing Russian strikes on energy infrastructure. Ukrenergo, Ukraine's state-owned...

The House of Representatives passed a Democratic-led package of gun violence prevention legislation on Wednesday, amid widespread calls for action in the aftermath of...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen made a new push in Brussels to repair the United States' relationship with the European Union, urging EU members to...

Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc are spending millions of dollars to provide drivers with access to COVID-19 vaccines and offering tens of millions...

Tuesday saw the unanimous passage of a law in Indonesia outlawing extramarital sex. An annual prison sentence could be imposed for the crime. Cohabitation before...

In an emphatic rejection of Russian threats of retaliation and escalation, Joe Biden has called for a massive $33 billion package of military and...

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...

The Federal Aviation Administration fined a DFW International Airport passenger $23,000 for allegedly striking an American Airlines flight attendant after becoming enraged that her...

André Leon Talley, a pioneering fashion journalist, died on Tuesday in New York at the age of 73. His death was announced on his Instagram...

As a Georgia grand jury investigates Donald Trump's behavior following his election loss in 2020, the former president's team has turned to one of...