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The Supreme Court granted the Biden administration permission on Thursday to end a Trump-era immigration policy that required asylum seekers to remain in Mexico...

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

As the country seeks ways to reduce fossil fuel emissions in order to meet ambitious carbon reduction targets, natural gas, a common household fuel...

Tuesday was a resounding rejection of former President Donald J. Trump's obsessive focus on the 2020 election. In Georgia, his choices for governor and...

Seven African immigrant leaders gathered in a large hall of a newly renovated church on Martin Luther King Jr. Street in Grand Rapids to...

As Congress prepares to vote on a $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, every American household should be on high alert because some Democrats want to...

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...

The battle between Texas lawmakers over a bill that would impose some of the strictest voting access restrictions in the country erupted Monday, with...

The murder trial of a man accused of killing 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, in 2019 has devolved into a...

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,...

Olympic officials defended rules that forced a US medal contender out of the Tokyo Games on Friday, after a Republican senator suggested without evidence...

The civil rights enforcement division of the U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into a North Texas school district whose superintendent was...

The most commonly reported sensation following an abortion is not pain. It feels good. Several studies have found this to be true. However, there is...

Republican lawmakers have called for a federal investigation into who leaked an apparent draft of a majority opinion indicating that the Supreme Court is...

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...

The Senate passed a short-term spending bill Thursday night, averting a government shutdown that was scheduled for Saturday unless Congress acted. Senators voted 65-27 to...

Microsoft announced last year that it will be carbon-negative by 2030. “Science tells us that the results will be catastrophic if we do not...

Hockey is one of the most popular sports in the United States. It is a fast-paced, contact sport that requires a lot of skill...

Senators are close to reaching an agreement on a $10 billion coronavirus relief package, putting Congress on track to deliver funding that Democrats had...

Colonial Williamsburg, a living history museum in Virginia that continues to reckon with its past storytelling about the country's origins and the role of...

Alexei Mordashov, a Russian billionaire, may have avoided a freeze on a £1 billion shareholding in Tui, the world's largest tourism company, after selling...

The second-in-command of New York Governor Kathy Hochul was indicted on federal bribery charges for allegedly funneling illegal donations to one of his previous...

White House has begun a major overhaul of its COVID strategy, indicating that the country is moving out of crisis mode and into a...

Investors in retirement have never had it so good. Individual retirement accounts and company 401(k) plans have been booming for a decade now, thanks...

During her closely watched tour this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met the leaders of Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan — but not the president...

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III met with reporters nearly 48 hours after leaving Washington on what...

They describe her as desperate, scared, and frequently broke. Some have been victims of rape or domestic violence. Others are new mothers who are...

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...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid met in Rome on Sunday as their new governments seek to move...

A video of a group of teenage students chanting the n-word at a private party in Southlake, Texas, went viral three years ago. A...

Shemah Crosby remembers her grandmother Lena spending time with her hand crafting Choctaw Indian traditional dresses, sowing elaborate appliques onto colorful fabrics. When her "pokni,"...

On Monday, former President Donald Trump's company filed a lawsuit against the city of New York, attempting to rescind Trump's contract to manage a...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Tuesday that agents are conducting a human smuggling investigation and were at the scene of a devastating crash in...

After New York Attorney General Letitia James released a damning report detailing 11 women who had been sexually harassed by Andrew Cuomo, the Empire...

Extensive unemployment benefits that have kept millions of Americans afloat during the pandemic expired on Monday, resulting in a sudden cutoff of assistance to...

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

Colin L. Powell, who served as the nation's top soldier, diplomat, and national security adviser for four decades and whose speech at the United...

According to a Ukrainian government official, Ukrainian intelligence indicates Belarus' "readiness to possibly participate directly" in the invasion of Ukraine, "in addition to allowing...

A Florida-based company was ordered to pay a remote worker $73,000 after firing him for refusing to turn on his webcam. Chetu, a US software...

Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook and now CEO of Meta, stated on Monday that a new touch sensor and a plastic material could potentially...

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...

It's the 32nd anniversary of the infamous 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, in which Chinese troops opened fire on and slaughtered hundreds of pro-democracy protesters...

Years before assuming the presidency in 2016, Donald Trump had expressed strong opposition to the US presence in Afghanistan, railing against a war that...

The opposition in Hungary has demanded ministerial resignations from Viktor Orbán's far-right government in response to allegations that the government targeted journalists, media owners,...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer postponed votes on two voting rights bills late Thursday, delaying a debate over the chamber's rules that will determine...

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...

A 38-year-old man has been charged with especially aggravated kidnapping in the disappearance of a 34-year-old Memphis teacher, after DNA on two slides linked...

The United States' vaccine campaign has plummeted from its previous highs. While more than 3 million people received the shot every day in mid-April,...

Despite efforts by drug-makers to make them more available, promising Covid-19 treatment pills are likely to take longer to reach patients in low- and...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced inflation adjustments for the tax year 2023, despite the fact that inflation rates are at their highest in...

On Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the "Momnibus Act" into law to address racial disparities in maternal and infant health, a significant victory...

According to court documents obtained by Law&Crime, the man accused of a racist attack on a Buffalo, New York grocery store was charged with...

Recent U.S. immigration policies reduced Venezuelan migration to the U.S.-Mexico border in October, but overall migrant apprehensions remained high, fueled by the arrival of...

Forecasters believe the West is in for a particularly bad wildfire year, as several destructive fires have already erupted well before the hottest, driest...

Boris Johnson apologized in the House of Commons on Wednesday. As well as wiggled. And apologized again — amid opposition calls that he is...

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

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...

Retired Adm. James Stavridis predicts that the Ukrainian war will end in 4 to 6 months, similar to the Korean War. On Sunday, the ex-NATO...

On July 20, billionaire Amazon cofounder Jeff Bezos went into space for a brief period of time in a rocket built by his rocket...

Since December, the United States government has delivered nearly 73.4 million doses to states and jurisdictions. Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna are promising to each deliver...

According to six people briefed on the matter, the CIA has ruled out the possibility that the mysterious symptoms known as Havana Syndrome are...

Policymakers in the European Union unveiled their most ambitious plan yet to combat climate change on Wednesday, aiming to turn green goals into concrete...

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...

Inflation rose again in June, thanks to persistent increases in gas, food, and rent prices, setting a new 40-year high and likely cementing the...

On Friday, the French government denied any cover-up of radiation levels in the Pacific as a result of its nuclear testing in the region,...

On Monday, a watchdog group filed a lawsuit in New Mexico against Couy Griffin, the founder of "Cowboys for Trump," seeking to remove the...

We are at a point in time when it is worthwhile to take a step back and look at the current state of affairs...

Despite the generally broad legal protections for social networks, Snap can be sued over a Snapchat speed filter that allegedly encouraged reckless driving. The...

Two of the committee's most senior members said on Jan. 6 that they believe Donald Trump committed wrongdoing in connection with the riot, but...

When I opened Twitter on Sunday, the first thing I saw was someone calling me a lampshade made of human skin. Then I got...

A monument at a Hong Kong university that was the most well-known public remembrance of the Tiananmen Square massacre on Chinese soil was demolished...

Coal was expected to be relegated to the dustbin of history as the world embraced renewable energy. After all, many countries were phasing out these...

Jessica Stern is on a mission to advance the cause of LGBTQ people in a world where sexual orientation violence and discrimination know no...

A wildfire in Yosemite National Park is threatening some of the world's oldest and largest trees, woodlands that have stood since before Rome was...

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

If you are one of the millions of people struggling to find work, there is good news. The unemployment rate for American adults has...

President Joe Biden issued an emergency order Monday to increase solar panel manufacturing in the United States and declared a two-year tariff exemption on...

Many of the world's largest cybercrime gangs are still active in hacking and extorting victims, unfazed by the international spotlight cast on one of...

Toyota Motor Corp's research arm announced the acquisition of Carmera, a provider of maps and data for driverless vehicles based in the United States,...

After months of frustration and delay, Japan has achieved the remarkable feat of producing one million vaccines per day. But, with the Olympics beginning...