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The coronavirus mutant that is now prevalent in the United States is an omicron family member, but scientists say it spreads faster than omicron...

As the United States' vaccination campaign accelerates, so-called vaccine passports are gaining traction despite political divisions and a fragmented health care system that complicates...

Last Week a federal judge ruled that California can now begin enforcing their tough net neutrality law. This law to ban internet providers from...

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

The Senate may soon put the bipartisan limits on pandemic spending to the test, as Democratic leaders prepare to introduce a small-business aid package...

Cryptocurrency mining companies, including Huobi Mall and BTC.TOP, have suspended their operations in China after Beijing increased its efforts to crack down on Bitcoin...

Twitter is informing its employees that they have been laid off via email. On Thursday, Insider's Kali Hays reported that Twitter employees would be notified...

While US Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends Group of 20 meetings on his first trip to Asia in more than six months, his...

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...

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

Inflation may be soaring, supply chains remain clogged, and the coronavirus refuses to go away, but America's casinos are humming along, with March being...

Protests disrupted Prince William and Kate Middleton's tour of former British colonies in the Caribbean this week, causing the British royal family embarrassment on...

Maricopa County officials on Wednesday refuted nearly every claim in an error-riddled report commissioned by Arizona Senate Republicans on the 2020 election that cast...

On Thursday, a Russian court found WNBA star Brittney Griner guilty of drug smuggling and possession and sentenced her to 9 years in prison...

The CIA's No. 2 official made it clear in a recent closed-door meeting with leaders of the agency's counterterrorism center that fighting al-Qaida and...

China announced on Monday that all married couples would be allowed to have three children, ending a two-child policy that had failed to increase...

According to an email sent to Trump's lawyers in May 2021 by National Archives and Records Administration chief counsel Gary Stern, Trump-era records were...

According to officials, 46 people were found dead and 16 others were taken to hospitals Monday after a tractor-trailer carrying suspected migrants was discovered...

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

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...

Even as the Omicron variant engulfs the United Kingdom and threatens to put the economy into reverse, the Bank of England is raising interest...

The Justice Department charged an Army doctor and a Johns Hopkins anesthesiologist on Thursday with conspiring to provide medical information about US soldiers and...

Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer are looking to cement their legendary status at Wimbledon, but six new names are in the last eight with...

In retaliation for "war crimes" in Ukraine, the US announced sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin's two adult daughters and said it was toughening...

On Tuesday, The White House will announce President Joe Biden's first sanctions against Russia over the Russian government's poisoning and detention of opposition leader Alexei...

The Justice Department has asked a special master to reject former President Donald J. Trump's claims that he owns a variety of documents seized...

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...

Tania Valdes says she found out her son was being held hostage after receiving a call from an anonymous group asking for money in...

Japan has almost overnight become a stunning, if somewhat mysterious, coronavirus success story. Every day, a new COVID- From a peak of nearly 6,000...

President Biden traveled to California for the second time in less than three weeks on Thursday, hoping to boost Democratic House members whose reelection...

It is time for President Joe Biden to use one of the countermeasures to Russia's military threat along the Ukraine border that he has...

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

Portland's official slogan is "The City That Works," but many residents believe the city is anything but that after a turbulent few years. Homelessness and...

Some politicians and activists have recently claimed that teaching about race and inclusion in schools is divisive or a means of indoctrinating students. However, the...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sought a record-tying third term on Tuesday, while Democrat Beto O'Rourke sought an upset in America's largest red state in...

During the state's recent primary, Teri Saltzman said she took her time looking over her ballot at home in Pflugerville, Texas, using specialized glasses...

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte was set to return home on Thursday, six days after his state was inundated with historic flooding that forced the...

According to the most recent data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, most people in the United States now live in...

According to reports, President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping had a contentious phone call last week. For several years, Washington has debated whether...

The Biden administration announced on Friday that it will consider new measures to protect greater sage grouse, a bird species that was once found...

What is the lone force that can keep purported Big Tech villains like Facebook and Google from supplanting themselves as dominant platforms? Republicans. Normally, those...

A new variant of the coronavirus responsible for Covid-19 has been identified in Botswana and South Africa, where it has been linked to a...

Christianity’s most joyous feast day was celebrated worldwide with the faithful spaced apart in pews and singing choruses of “Hallelujah” through face coverings on...

The family of Daunte Wright gathered around his white coffin draped in red roses Wednesday, taking in one of the last times they would...

Dozens of women have protested the formation of an all-male interim Taliban government to rule Afghanistan in Kabul and the north-eastern Afghan province of...

On April 29, Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev became the first post-Soviet leader to publicly condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It is the most recent...

The Summer Olympics are just around the corner and, for the first time since 2000, Jamaican sprinting superstar Usain Bolt won't be on the track. It's...

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is not taking any chances with less than 500 days until he is up for reelection. In an interview over the...

When considering a dubious claim made by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), it is helpful to recall her lengthy history with such remarks. This...

Millions of people took to the streets around the world in the days following George Floyd's murder to protest police violence and racial inequality....

The gun violence epidemic in the United States has been described as a uniquely American problem, with calls for increased gun control or common...

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...

President Joe Biden began his administration with lofty goals to overhaul America's immigration system, but as the end of the year approaches, lawsuits and...

When the United States Catholic Bishops meet in June, they will decide whether to send a tougher-than-ever message to President Joe Biden and other...

Federal prosecutors have charged a 32-year-old man with a federal firearm crime, alleging that he sold the gun used by the Colleyville, Texas, synagogue...

Now that fired police officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted on all three counts against him, he can still file an appeal. But the...

The Supreme Court has ruled that Texas abortion providers can sue the state over its ban on most abortions, but the justices have left...

Rudy Giuliani may have his law license suspended or revoked as a result of a preliminary finding that he broke at least one professional...

The original permit application, filed on November 24, scheduled the demonstration in Washington for January 22 and 23, two days after the Inauguration and...

Israel will respond to any new attacks by Hamas militants with a “very powerful” response, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Tuesday, thanking the...

On Tuesday morning, Tiger Woods was hospitalized after being involved in a single vehicle rollover accident in southern california. The professional golfer was taken...

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

Leaders of the world's largest economies agreed Sunday to stop funding coal-fired power plants in developing countries and made a vague commitment to achieve...

The Labor Department's report on Friday that the economy added 559,000 jobs in May, an increase from April, boosted Democrats and the Biden administration,...

On Monday, President Joe Biden announced the reinstatement of US restrictions on the use of landmines in combat zones, reversing a policy decision made...

Top US Air Force officials said on Wednesday that US-made fighter jets are one option for Ukraine as it rebuilds its air force to...

Climate change isn't the reason that some coal-fired power plants in the United States are closing down. It is the cost of tighter pollution...

Faced with mounting pressure to relax pandemic restrictions, the White House insisted Wednesday that it is planning a less disruptive phase of the national...

“All my life, my ambition was to be a star,” Jackie Mason once said, but few stars had a slower or more circuitous path...

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

A dispute between railroads and labor unions could result in a shutdown as early as Friday, halting most train traffic across the country. Trains...

Demetrius Napolitano stood outside his adoptive mother's apartment in New York. Child welfare officials had removed him from her home years before. Years had passed...

Scientists traveled into the forests of northern Laos in the summer of 2020, half a year into the coronavirus pandemic, to catch bats that...

Thousands of Japanese military personnel have previously traveled around the world to assist the UN in some of the most volatile hotspots. However, priorities...

A new court filing claims that an attorney who has been described as the district attorney's "legal advisor" was behind a pair of mysterious...

​​West Virginia University researchers believe they have discovered living microorganisms in a halite sample dating back 830 million years, providing insight into past life...

Just four days after historic climate talks in Scotland, where Joe Biden pledged that the US will "lead by example" in addressing dangerous global...

Francis slammed the spread of the old Latin Mass on Friday, reversing one of Pope Benedict XVI's signature decisions in a major challenge to...

Former employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before Congress last week that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg owns 55 percent of the company's voting stock. This...

According to tests conducted by online pharmacy and lab Valisure, traces of a chemical linked to blood cancers such as leukemia have been detected...