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Newly elected President Biden signed a total of four different executive orders early on Tuesday aimed at racial equity, one of his major stances...

A person familiar with the meeting confirmed that President Biden met with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Joe Manchin in Delaware on...

The Excelsior Pass in New York is becoming increasingly popular. The digital vaccine platform has issued millions of passes since its launch in March,...

Top Senate Republicans are working hard to prevent the formation of a 9/11-style commission to investigate the Capitol attack, putting the bill's passage in...

The FBI was closing in on a Defense Intelligence Agency employee who was allegedly a Cuban spy in late 2000. Soon, undercover agents would...

According to a report by a panel that advises state officials, oil refineries, utilities, and other companies that must pay to emit greenhouse gases...

The Standard and Poor's (S&P) 500 is an excellent way to track the health of the American economy. The S&P 500, also known as...

Novavax, a small American company bolstered by lavish government support, announced the findings of a clinical trial of its Covid-19 vaccine in the United...

According to his cousin, the teen who died last week after falling from an amusement park ride in Florida was turned away from two...

America’s top spies say they are looking for ways to declassify and release more intelligence about adversaries’ bad behavior, after a group of four-star...

Did you know that nearly 60% of the universe consists of dark matter that remains unseen by us? This is a much lesser known...

When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, many US national security officials and analysts predicted that Ukraine's military would be able to hold out...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson clashed Monday with a lawyer for a student group seeking to end affirmative action in college admissions, questioning whether the...

After a difficult first two years in the White House, Reagan, Clinton, and Obama all rebuilt enough public support to win reelection to a...

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...

A federal grand jury has indicted four former Minneapolis police officers who were involved in George Floyd's arrest and death, accusing them of willfully...

Netgear shares fell 14.2 percent after the computer equipment manufacturer reported lower-than-expected sales and revenue for the most recent quarter. In addition, the company...

When the 44th Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday night, the lights at the Eccles Theater will be dim, and there will be fewer...

The wedding industry continues to be wasteful, but a growing number of brides and grooms are pushing for more environmentally friendly changes, from the...

  Huawei said Monday that it believes U.S. sanctions on the company are partly to blame for the ongoing global chip shortage. Eric Xu, Huawei's rotating...

According to a new study published on Tuesday, small amounts of industrial chemicals known as phthalates, which are used to soften plastics, have been...

President Biden continued his European tour on Monday by visiting the headquarters of the organization his predecessor despised, NATO, where leaders gathered to discuss...

Glencore's subsidiary has pleaded guilty in a London court to seven counts of bribery related to its oil operations in several African countries. The Serious...

According to local officials and state media, explosions shook two Russian military airbases on Monday hundreds of miles from the Ukrainian border. The mysterious explosions,...

According to a lengthy Facebook post, hydrogen peroxide is the Swiss Army Knife of home health care and cleanup, capable of serving as a...

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 Moscow court has denied an appeal by one of two former Marines whom US officials believe Russia is holding hostage and whose cases...

After being pulled over during a routine traffic stop in San Dimas, California, a woman was caught on police body camera footage verbally abusing...

The United States produces the most plastic trash of any country, and it ranks third among coastal nations in terms of litter, illegally dumped...

The Prime Minister has bowed to ministerial pressure to resign as Tory leader, but he intends to stay in No. 10 until the party...

Dr. Darien Sutton's first thought when a woman in her 30s showed up in his Los Angeles County hospital emergency room this week with...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Saturday that the lower chamber is "hard at work" to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill as well...

Since the announcement that all Covid-related restrictions would be lifted in England, experts have warned of disastrous consequences, ranging from an inevitable increase in...

According to Ukrainian officials, a massive cyberattack on a Ukrainian internet service provider used by the country's military occurred on Monday, fueling fears that...

British computer scientists have discovered a way to remotely hijack contactless Visa payments on an iPhone that has been locked. The proper delivery of...

Surry County, North Carolina, officials voted to remove Coca-Cola vending machines from all government facilities in response to the beverage company's CEO's comments about...

Tuesday's vote on whether to release six years' worth of information about former President Donald Trump's tax returns, a move Trump has long resisted,...

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...

In a forecast from the University of Washington’s pandemic forecasting team, it is estimated that close to another 200,000 Americans are likely to dies...

When Grammy-nominated producer Harvey Mason Jr. took over as president of the Recording Academy, he knew he was in for a challenge. He's heard...

Japan will release more than a million tons of treated water from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean, the government said Tuesday,...

Nationalist blogger Roman Antonovsky's airtime has increased since fierce fighting broke out in February, thanks in large part to Moscow's military intervention in Ukraine. Before...

The Afghan man was attending a conference in California as part of his job for a US-government-funded project in Afghanistan when the Taliban sent...

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

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

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...

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...

Postal workers, who are excited about the prospect of making deliveries in modern, comfortable, and environmentally friendly vehicles, are still driving their aging, spartan...

The UN special envoy to Myanmar announced Monday that she will not return to the Southeast Asian country unless the military government allows her...

The United States is at a crossroads in terms of LGBTQ rights: More Americans than ever before identify as LGBTQ, but more than half...

More than a million Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine doses held in Israel and set to expire at the end of July may be discarded after attempts...

Experts believe that in order to fully compensate for the planet's damage, we must completely remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Experts say there is still...

President Biden planned to press Russian President Vladimir Putin on alleged hacking, human rights violations, and other irritants in a historic first summit Wednesday,...

A plan to phase out the project and treat covid-19 as a common illness rather than a public health emergency was approved "in principle"...

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...

During the early morning hours of Thursday, two busloads of migrants were dropped off at a metro bus stop near Vice President Kamala Harris'...

A US congressman has asked the FBI to look into law enforcement's response to the Uvalde, Texas, massacre that killed 19 children and two...

The State Bureau of Investigation is investigating allegations that Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff, committed election fraud. Meadows has been...

A group of North Carolina voters told state officials on Monday that they want U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn disqualified as a congressional candidate, citing...

On the campaign trail in 2016, Donald Trump took an unusual stance, defending his namesake "university" against allegations of fraud. Rather than deferring to his...

"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,...

According to a legal official, a court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted former leader Aung San Suu Kyi in another criminal case Thursday and sentenced...

On the eve of a hearing for three men accused in Ahmaud Arbery's death, his family witnessed the repeal of a Civil War-era law...

A costly troop mobilization, plummeting energy prices, and a new round of Western sanctions threaten to wreak havoc on Russia's already battered economy and...

On Tuesday, nearly three dozen adults and children were evacuated from an Allentown, Pa., day care center after emergency workers responding to a report...

Vice President Kamala Harris laughed while responding to a question from a reporter who asked Monday if she would be visiting the border amid the...

When neurosurgeon Matthew S. Schrag learned that the Food and Drug Administration had approved a controversial Alzheimer's drug, he was taken aback. In his...

According to the head of the International Energy Agency, Europe must prepare immediately for Russia to cut off all gas exports to the region...

In what Moscow claimed was the third long-range attack by Ukrainian forces on its air bases in two days, drones allegedly hit an airfield...

Facial recognition technology is making a comeback in the United States, as bans intended to thwart the technology and reduce racial bias in policing...

A member of a men's chorus group in South Florida unintentionally slammed into fellow chorists at the start of a Pride parade, killing one...

Prices increased by 3.6 percent in April compared to the previous year, continuing a trend of rising inflation, though economic policymakers say the increases...

Tensions between protesters and police intensified for the second night in a row Monday, a day after a Brooklyn Center police officer fatally shot...

Republicans issued a stern warning to President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats on Tuesday: change the Senate rules at your own risk. Mr. Biden endorsed...

Andy Stone is one of the fortunate. The New Yorker saw a tweet from a local AIDS activist stating that monkeypox vaccines would be...

Although doctors have long suggested that exercise can lower the risk of serious COVID-19 outcomes, such as hospitalization and death, it has never been...

The ivory-billed woodpecker, along with 22 other bird, fish, mussel, and wildlife species, is set to be declared extinct and removed from the endangered...

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

For those who have delayed getting vaccinated because they have already been infected with the coronavirus, a growing body of evidence suggests that vaccination...

Cuba has named one of its homegrown vaccines Abdala, after a famous dramatic verse by independence hero and national icon Jose Marti, as a...