Tag: halts

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...

Progressive lawmakers and House staffers are putting pressure on Democratic leaders to punish first-term Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado for a string of...

Google is facing a $5 billion lawsuit over complaints that its Chrome browser tracks users even when using "Incognito" mode. A U.S. District judge ruled last...

Alex Schachter, a 14-year-old marching band member who was killed in the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, would have graduated this year from Marjory Stoneman...

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,...

The Senate Parliamentarian ruled against attaching the measure to a $3.5 trillion spending bill on Sunday, putting a major stumbling block in Senate Democrats'...

A Texas state law that prohibits abortion after six weeks of pregnancy could serve as a model for red states to enact stringent abortion...

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-New York, said it was difficult for her to vote against the $1.9 trillion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. However, in the...

A video of truck driver Rogel Aguilera-Mederos making an emotional plea before a Colorado judge sentenced him to 110 years in prison in connection...

A ring of fire on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico caused by a ruptured gas pipeline has renewed concern about the state...

A federal judge in California has denied Los Angeles County's request to dismiss Vanessa Bryant's lawsuit over photos taken at the scene of her...

Despite authorities dismissing a vague and viral TikTok trend warning of nationwide school violence on Friday as non-credible, widespread school closures, stretched law enforcement...

The dire warning implicit in President Joe Biden’s more than $2trillion American Jobs Plan — which promises to rebuild American infrastructure, create union jobs, and...

A Georgia county's plan to build a rocket launch pad for sending satellites into space was put to voters Tuesday in a referendum forced...

The worldwide ban on most crude oil export by the United States was imposed in 1975. It was implemented at the time of the...

Citigroup Inc. said it will invest in digital mortgage offerings as part of its pledge to improve homeownership rates among communities of color. The push...

Israelis mourned the loss of life on Friday after a joyous pilgrimage drew tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews turned tragic. And, while the...

Russia's war on Ukraine has already changed European security after only one week, with the most serious fighting almost certainly yet to come. Vladimir Putin's...

Amazon, Qualcomm, and Micron were among the stocks that fell on Thursday following a report that the Biden administration is pushing for a tax...

Britain's prime minister accused China of "gross rights violations" against the Muslim Uyghur minority Friday after Beijing aimed sanctions at UK lawmakers and lobby...

The family of a 42-year-old Black man who died in a barrage of bullets fired at his car by North Carolina sheriff's deputies are expected...

Hundreds of thousands of dollars are on the line for a suburban Iowa school district on Friday if enraged parents carry out a plan...

Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, said in interviews Sunday that former president Donald Trump should be enlisted to encourage his supporters...

The US Food and Drug Administration announced on Thursday that it will "work toward issuing proposed product standards within the next year" to ban...

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...

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

As the country approaches the one year anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic, much of the population continues to try and work, learn, and live...

Samuel Soren Adams had decided it was time to call it quits in a New Jersey pool hall. So he hung up his billiard...

Since its initial public offering last July, Lemonade (NYSE: LMND) stock has taken investors for a wild ride. After closing at a high of $183...

Karen Garner was lying in her bed on Wednesday at the Golden, Colorado, memory care facility where she has been living since an officer...

For weeks, César Salomé, a physician in Lima’s Hospital Mongrut, had followed the chilling reports. A new coronavirus variant, spawned in the Amazon rainforest,...

Temperature-scanning devices that check for fevers in schools, workplaces and public venues across the United States distort the results in a way that could...

Britney Spears' court-appointed conservatorship lawyer resigned on Tuesday, a day after her longtime manager resigned, saying the singer planned to retire and no longer...

Juanisha C. Brooks was driving home on the Capital Beltway early on March 6 when she noticed the flashing lights of an emergency vehicle...

This week, Facebook informed advertisers that a "bug" in its measurement system had resulted in an undercounting of ad performance among some iPhone 12...

With Britain slowly easing its way out of its third nationwide lockdown, people across the country are enjoying a return to a sense of...

According to an analysis of data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it will take until mid-February to get at least...

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

Two European officials told reporters that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told European allies that the US believes the Russian war in Ukraine...

Earlier this year, as debates raged over reopening schools and including education funding in a massive coronavirus relief package, the nation's largest teachers' unions...

Hundreds of Afghans gathered outside a passport office in Kabul on Wednesday, a day after Taliban officials announced that the country would resume issuing...

President Bashar al-Assad, once regarded as a reformer but now regarded as a tyrant by his many detractors after a decade of war and...

More than 60 major corporations have signed an open letter calling on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to retract comments he made late last...

Facebook is changing its name to Meta, a rebranded corporate parent. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the change on Thursday, saying he wanted a new brand...

On Sunday morning in Madison, Wisconsin, the office of a conservative political organization that advocates against abortion rights was vandalized and damaged by fire,...

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...

Vaccination mandates imposed by President Joe Biden are under attack. The mandates were hailed as a way to help America recover from the Covid pandemic,...

This weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris will face her most important foreign policy assignment yet in Germany, where she will try to keep European...

The Covid-19 crisis is approaching the second anniversary of the World Health Organization's pandemic declaration on March 11 – and many people are now...

As Ukrainian and Western officials responded to discoveries of mass graves and streets littered with the bodies of dead civilians after Russia's retreat from...

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...

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...

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...

Afghanistan’s beleaguered government will be on its own against the Taliban once American forces withdraw in September. The strength of the insurgency, combined with...

Two of the nation's top health agencies authorized and expanded COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to allow older Americans to receive a second booster shot in...

Police said Tuesday that a candidate for Louisville's metro council has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly opening fire on a mayoral candidate...

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

Seattle, the state's largest city and the site of the first Covid-19 case in the United States more than two years ago, will begin...

The diverging fortunes of major banks in the fallout from the Archegos Capital Management meltdown has posed serious questions for global regulators, experts have...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer slammed the Supreme Court's leaked draft decision to overturn the nation's landmark Roe v. Wade law as a "abomination,"...

It is unclear whether Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a final decision on an invasion of Ukraine, but he is continuing to build...

Tax season is still months away, but knowing what to expect in terms of potential refunds is never too early — especially when inflation...

From Australia to South Korea and across Asia Pacific, the last "zero-Covid" bastions are relaxing restrictions and opening borders as the region prepares to...

On the last day of the state's legislative session, Alabama's Republican-controlled legislature passed two bills aimed at transgender children, including one that makes it...

The clock is ticking for Congress to reach an agreement to raise the federal borrowing limit, also known as the debt ceiling, before the...

Due to a number of injuries on their roster, the Los Angeles Lakers fell just short of a comeback victory over the Phoenix Suns...

E-reader apps that became a lifeline for students during the pandemic are now in the crossfire of a culture war raging over books in...

Many recent questions about technology ethics have centered on the role of algorithms in various aspects of our lives. As artificial intelligence and machine...

President-elect Joe Biden has reportedly grown alarmingly frustrated with theteam leading the vaccination attempts across the United States. Biden had originally stated that he...

US auto safety regulators have launched a new investigation into Tesla, this time in response to complaints that its vehicles can suddenly stop on...

California's coronavirus vaccine mandate for schoolchildren will be implemented, but not until at least the summer of 2023, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration. California...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un witnessed his first weapons launch in nearly two years, witnessing what Pyongyang described as the final test of...

As the looming threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine rages on, the Russian military claimed Monday that five "saboteurs" were assassinated after crossing...

At least six major automakers, including Ford, Mercedes-Benz, General Motors, and Volvo, and 30 national governments pledged on Wednesday to work toward phasing out...

United Parcel Service is taking package delivery to new heights, literally, with the purchase of 10 electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft from Beta...

It is to no shock that the majority of the political landscape is focused on impeachment while other major stories are overshadowed.While the Senate...

In stark contrast to the exaggerated fears of the past, most people now believe cannabis is relatively harmless. While marijuana is less dangerous than...

Night after night, tear gas has hung like a cloud over the Sterling Square Apartments, just across the street from the Brooklyn Center Police...

What can we do about a tech sector that appears to be dominating competitors while becoming increasingly hostile to conservative ideas? It's a difficult question...

Elon Musk claims to have secured $46.5 billion in financing to purchase Twitter and is in the process of negotiating a deal with the...