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On Sunday, Novak Djokovic left Australia after three federal judges upheld the decision to revoke his visa for the second time. "I can confirm that...

Shortly after President Joe Biden announced new sanctions on Russian banks and elites on Thursday – but not on Russian President Vladimir Putin –...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday dropped plans for a five-day shutdown over Easter, which had prompted confusion and criticism. She called the idea...

On a hot June morning, Novavax CEO and covid vaccine maker Stanley Erck stood unmasked on a stage and did something unthinkable six months...

Science and technology (S&T) underpins everyday life, from extreme weather to vaccines to remote learning and virtual working. However, according to the US Department...

A sprawling, privately run detention center in Adelanto, California's windswept desert town, could house nearly 2,000 migrants facing deportation. However, it is nearly empty...

On Sunday, a state-run media outlet in China warned of "severe" military and economic repercussions for Taiwan if Washington allows the self-ruled island to...

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...

Last week, Joe Biden introduced a $1.9 trillion stimulus as an ambitious plan to take on the current economic crisis. Most economists note, however,...

Airlines may have thought their pandemic woes were over in the fall, when a coronavirus wave passed and more people took to the skies....

Along with a lingering global pandemic, the year 2021 was filled with climate disasters, some of which were so severe that even scientists who...

A wave of new abortion-rights legislation is sweeping the country, raising concerns about the potential use of personal data to punish people who seek...

The European champions returned home at dawn Monday to the ecstatic cheers of Italians who had spent the better part of the night honking...

Were they gullible, foul-mouthed men duped by undercover agents? Or is it a rogue cast that is so enraged that they want to kidnap...

According to a newly released investigation, the commanding general of the D.C. National Guard was directed twice by Pentagon leadership to send in troops...

President Volodymr Zelensky's message to the West and its leaders is as follows: "We are all Ukrainians." As he fights an existential battle for his...

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...

The date was March 17, 2017. Troops from the US-led coalition fighting jihadists in Iraq were pushing their way into Mosul's Old City, squeezing...

On Wednesday, The White House unveiled an approximately $2 trillion jobs plan focused on infrastructure and the climate, a blueprint that represents President Biden’s...

Faced with a resurgence of COVID-positive patients — and a stubborn aversion to vaccines among many Miami-Dade residents and even its own employees —...

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...

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

Omicron is already altering the way medicine combats COVID-19. Despite the fact that it has only recently become widespread in the United States, doctors, pharmacists,...

Mahbu Avtar sits in an orange plastic chair and pulls down her sleeve, ready for her first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, in a small...

The Biden administration is considering expanding a policy that restricts federal agents' use of "no-knock" warrants. A "no-knock warrant," as the name suggests, is a...

Concern is mounting that China’s Covid-19 vaccines are less effective at quelling the disease, raising questions about nations from Brazil to Hungary that are...

Wildlife conservationists are outraged after a video published by the New Yorker and The Trance on Tuesday showed the NRA's president and his wife...

The novel coronavirus pandemic was undoubtedly the most significant and frightening event of 2020, but it was far from the strangest thing that occurred...

With feared pandemic loan losses not materializing, most major U.S. banks are expected to report a stunning rebound in quarterly profits next week, despite...

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

The Biden administration has moved up its deadline for all Americans to become eligible to receive a coronavirus vaccine, announcing Tuesday that states will...

According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, a gunman opened fire in a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, killing at least 19 children...

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...

The Democratic Party has been tearing itself apart over whether to spend $3.5 trillion, $2 trillion, or even $1.5 trillion on its latest reconciliation...

The Kremlin admitted Tuesday that there had been a "mix-up" in its response to the US over the Ukraine crisis, as diplomatic efforts to...

According to an excerpt from his book "Breaking History: A White House Memoir" provided to The New York Times, Jared Kushner, a billionaire real...

On Wednesday last week, Google's Fiona Cicconi wrote to company employees. She announced that Google was bringing forward its timetable of moving people back...

If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, the legal and cultural battles over abortion that have raged for decades in the United States...

According to Iranian state media, Iran's largest navy ship sank early Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman after catching fire, the latest blow to...

Colonial Pipeline's CEO has publicly admitted to paying off the DarkSide ransomware gang, providing the first look at how the largest cyberattack on US...

The Taliban's lightning-fast advance into more territory in Afghanistan is causing concern from Russia to China, as US President Joe Biden's decision to withdraw...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons, whose workforce has been decimated by Trump-era hiring freezes, is advertising for thousands of new positions. After being decimated...

American democracy is in rapid decline, India is no longer a free country, and at most 20 percent of the world’s population lives in...

Kevin McCarthy and other Republican members of Congress can rant about how bad the border crisis is, but what are they doing about it? Last...

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

On Wednesday, U.S. health officials announced plans to give COVID-19 booster shots to all Americans in order to strengthen their immunity in the face...

The US Treasury is revising a plan to track more Americans' bank accounts in order to limit tax evasion by the wealthy, following strong...

Dorka Juhasz of UConn, like many of her teammates, was ecstatic when she learned that college athletes would be allowed to earn money through...

According to Andy Slavitt, a former senior pandemic adviser to President Joe Biden, the Omicron coronavirus variant will cause a "winter wave" that will...

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

People familiar with the investigation said on Wednesday that federal prosecutors have significantly broadened their Jan. 6 investigation to look into the possible culpability...

A group of people waits patiently by a blue bus parked beneath a bridge in Belgrade on a sunny autumn day. This will be...

A Ukrainian diplomat has reportedly warned Kyiv may be forced to acquire nuclear weapons to safeguard the country’s security if NATO does not accede...

Lawmakers in a few states are pushing for stronger safeguards for election officials, citing growing concerns about their safety in the aftermath of the...

Donald Trump is facing a potentially crippling financial and political blow as state prosecutors consider charging his family business with a crime this week. Prosecutors...

Because times are tough, Democrats should resist the urge to tell voters that everything is fine. According to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in a...

According to legislation released by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a new committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurgency at the United States Capitol would...

Republicans and Democrats in a bitterly divided Washington appear to agree on one thing: the twice-yearly ritual of changing the clocks must end. Even with...

Howard Prager, 66, and his klezmer band were set up in chairs on a slow-moving flatbed truck Monday morning as they pulled into the...

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...

Vaccine orders are soaring into the billions of doses in much of the developed world, Covid-19 cases are easing, economies are preparing to roar...

President Joe Biden's urgent global search for assistance in cutting off Russia's oil revenues is leading to regimes he once sought to isolate or...

Three doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine provide excellent protection for children under the age of five, the company announced on Monday. Pfizer intends to...

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...

NASA and Russia's space agency changed the course of the International Space Station (ISS) to avoid colliding with debris that was heading in the...

In a speech in Texas, the former president also urged supporters to hold protests if prosecutors in Atlanta and New York pursued criminal charges...

When the officer who killed George Floyd was found guilty of murder in April, the slain Black man's lawyer hailed the verdict as a...

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...

China signaled on Monday that it is not interested in supplying weapons to Russia for use in Ukraine, where President Vladimir Putin's brutal military...

Facebook's profit more than doubled in the most recent quarter as digital advertising surged, but the company warned of slower growth in the months...

Tesla's CEO is the world's richest man, with an estimated fortune of $233 billion. Elon Musk openly uses his influence to sway public opinion. The billionaire...

Jussie Smollett will testify again in his Chicago trial on Tuesday, where the former "Empire" actor called claims that he staged an anti-gay, racist...

On the tarmac of Kabul airport on Tuesday, Taliban leaders declared victory over the United States, just hours after the last American troops left...

Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles, in tears, blamed the FBI, USA Gymnastics, and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee for allowing disgraced former USA...

Barack Obama has backed conservative West Virginia Democratic senator Joe Manchin's voting rights proposal, describing it as a "product of compromise" as the landmark...

Later this month, U.S. intelligence agencies will deliver to Congress a highly anticipated unclassified report on what they know about UFOs, or Unexplained Aerial...

Just over a year after the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, Republicans mostly still support Donald Trump, but it...

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

One of Baltimore's most well-known figures isn't on a sports field or in a city hall office. Instead, he's doing the mundane job of...

Ah yes, Venice Beach in California: synonymous with sun, surf, palm trees and, now, homeless people. In this Los Angeles-area town that has long drawn...