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

Abbott and the FDA were notified of a whistleblower complaint about Abbott's Sturgis infant formula plant as early as February 2021. According to sources familiar...

In an Atlanta courtroom on Friday, a potentially precedent-setting disqualification hearing is underway to determine whether Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced Tuesday that he will work with Congress to remove sexual assault prosecutions from the military justice system, a dramatic...

Derek Chauvin invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to testify on Thursday and the defense rested its case as the trial of George Floyd's...

The unexpected collapse of one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges shook the nation's capital this week, as lawmakers grappled with the wide-ranging fallout...

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...

Following the case of an unvaccinated elderly woman who was found to be infected with both the alpha and beta variants of Covid-19, experts...

Hundreds of teenagers were celebrating the start of homecoming weekend and their high school football team's dominant win just hours earlier around a bonfire...

Tom Brady completed 21 of 29 passes for 201 yards with three touchdowns in the Buccaneers’ 31-9 victory over the Chiefs. In his performance in Sunday’s game, Brady was honored as...

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...

According to a new study, two out of every five people with compromised immune systems have a “low or undetectable” antibody response after receiving...

It makes no difference to the champion Los Angeles Lakers, who won a tense 103-100 play-in game against the scariest dude of them all...

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...

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....

Following coverage on Fox News Digital, a nonprofit organization in North Carolina that faced local backlash for raffling off a rifle to raise money...

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...

Schools across the country are scrambling to make up for lost time during the pandemic by allocating billions of dollars to tutoring, summer camps,...

The European Union's drug regulator approved Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine for use on children aged 5 to 11, paving the way for shots to be...

In a new Netflix series that documents the couple's separation from the royal family and criticizes British media and societal racism they believe has...

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,...

Police said four people were killed in a shooting at a medical center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Wednesday, the latest in a wave of...

High school athletics are feeling the effects of the omicron surge, from paused games to restricted fans, during a winter season that coaches and...

Amazon installed a slew of metal lockers outside a 2019 Fresno, California, gas station convenience store so customers who didn't want packages delivered directly...

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...

Gigi Sohn, President Joe Biden's choice to fill the vacant seat on the five-member Federal Communications Commission, was scheduled to be voted on Wednesday...

Tesla Inc. shares fell after CEO Elon Musk indicated he was willing to sell 10% of his holdings. Shares of the electric-vehicle manufacturer fell 4.8...

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

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Democratic President Joe Biden's administration's request to overturn former President Donald Trump's "remain in Mexico" immigration...

In an effort to keep the controversy surrounding his godmother's treatment of a Black advocate for victims of domestic abuse from overshadowing his visit...

A workshop for writers in Alaska. Californian food banks. a diabetes-fighting nonprofit. The disgraced cryptocurrency tycoon Samuel Bankman-Fried gave lawmakers a ton of money, but...

The CEOs of America's largest airlines have warned of "catastrophic disruption" to travel and shipping operations if telecommunications companies deploy 5G technology as planned...

By the end of the year, Lyft customers in Miami will be able to hail a robotaxi from Argo AI, an AV startup backed...

When the neighborhood she grew up in, Boston's Chinatown, was destroyed, Mary Yee was in elementary school. Beginning in the late 1950s, the state built...

For years, the city of Boston has rotated dozens of flags on a pole outside City Hall to honor veterans, paramedics, sports teams, and...

What is Disability Insurance and Should You Have It? In general, Disability Insurance pays out if something happened to you (such as an accident...

After losing her marketing job due to the pandemic and then gaining 40 pounds, Remi Bader, 25, began spending more time on TikTok. She...

The semiconductor chip shortage is old news, but when the second-largest public company in U.S. stock market history says it just lost $6 billion...

Weary doctors and nurses on the front lines of the pandemic are preparing to treat hospitalized Covid-19 patients over the Christmas holiday for the...

Presidents come and go, but one constant has been Dale Haney, the chief White House groundskeeper, who is celebrating 50 years of service to...

The office of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has requested the appointment of a special prosecutor to consider criminal charges against nine people it...

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...

Evacuation orders were issued in parts of several central Texas counties late Thursday as crews worked to contain the flames in dangerous fire weather...

A common theme on the dockets of some of the most significant cases before the Supreme Court in recent weeks, ranging from affirmative action...

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

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...

The city’s civilian police investigative watchdog’s review of an errant raid by Chicago police on the Near West Side home of social worker Anjanette...

Here's a line from Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., that you can expect to hear in almost every ad for a Democratic Senate candidate between...

The Ohio Department of Agriculture raided the home of Rico Exotic, a popular TikToker, because he owns a monkey classified as a dangerous wild...

President Biden aims to stay on track with his first 100-day agenda this week as Trump’s trial is set to begin. Trump’s impeachment trial...

Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and House Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard Neal (D-Mass.) are working on legislation to limit the size of Individual...

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...

The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights organization that has been tracking attacks on the Jewish community since 1979, recorded the highest number of...

On Tuesday, a massive reservoir known as a boating mecca fell below a critical level, raising new concerns about a source of power that...

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is investigating a claim that Facebook Inc refused a publisher's request to negotiate a licensing deal, setting the...

Colonial Pipeline's CEO faced tough questions from lawmakers Tuesday about his company's ransomware attack, which caused a major disruption in the nation's fuel supply...

  Twitter is working to  expand their use of labels in identifying official government accounts and state-affiliated media in attempts to boost transparency. Twitter has...

Carolyn Foote was shocked and outraged when Republican lawmakers targeted hundreds of books about race, equality, and sexuality in Texas school libraries. She and...

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

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil's leftist former president, defeated conservative incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in the country's closest presidential race in history on Sunday,...

Cyberattacks have increased dramatically in recent months, frequently disrupting products and services that are essential to our daily lives. Many of these attacks have...

Dr. Gautam Singh dreads the daily advent of the ventilator beeps, signaling that oxygen levels are critically low, and hearing his critically ill patients...

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

Stocks are mostly higher on Wall Street as traders prepare for the return of economic data and corporate earnings after the year-end holidays. In...

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

Russian forces launched an all-out assault on Ukraine on Thursday, claiming to be the largest European invasion since World War II. Following reports of troops...

Many people who have medical debt on their credit reports will soon receive assistance. Beginning Friday, the three major credit reporting companies in the United...

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...

Sarah Palin's bid for the U.S. House of Representatives, Sen. Lisa Murkowski's bid to keep her Senate seat, and Donald Trump's influence on both...

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...

Xi Jinping is currently dealing with a wave of public unrest that has not been seen in decades, brought on by his "zero COVID"...

According to a recently declassified report by the House Intelligence Committee, U.S. intelligence agencies missed an opportunity to better understand Covid-19's spread because they...

Dozens of migrants arrived by plane on Martha's Vineyard, as Republican governors escalate their campaign against President Biden's border policies by transporting refugees out...

US President Joe Biden announced Thursday a new package of $800 million in military aid for Ukraine, saying it would help Kyiv in the...

Criminal organizations trafficking women, children, families and single adults over the U.S.- Mexico Border earned as much as $14 million a day in February, according...

When Boris Johnson's Conservative Party won a landslide election victory in 2019, he loomed as a colossus over British politics, the man who had...

With approximately 100,000 Russian troops stationed near the Ukrainian border, warships stationed in the nearby Black Sea, and Russian tanks pouring in from the...

Defiant Afghan women staged a rare protest Thursday, saying they would accept the burqa if their daughters could still attend school under Taliban rule. "It...

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, California's first lady, cried as she testified against Harvey Weinstein in the disgraced producer's rape trial in Los Angeles on Monday. Weinstein,...

According to the HIV Justice Network, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) recently signed a new law making it a felony to pass on a...