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US stocks fell on Tuesday, resuming their decline after last week's rally, while a pledge by European Union leaders to cut Russian oil purchases...

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...

A "Billionaire Minimum Income Tax" is included in President Joe Biden's budget proposal for the fiscal year 2023. According to the budget, all households worth...

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...

A US congressman has asked the FBI to look into law enforcement's response to the Uvalde, Texas, massacre that killed 19 children and two...

Iryna Nikolaieva sat in a stairwell of a Kyiv bomb shelter where she had been living for three days and called engineers at two...

Health experts around the world are warning that the COVID-19 might be here to stay, but with vaccinations it’s likely that it won’t always...

After 16 years in power, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is about to step down as leader of Europe's largest economy. Just a few months...

Nissan announced plans Thursday for a massive battery gigafactory in northeastern England, where it will produce a new electric vehicle as companies and governments...

The United States Senate has averted a government shutdown by passing a stopgap funding bill that also includes billions of dollars in emergency aid...

When a candidate for president of the United States becomes the nominee of the Republican Party, they are officially considered the presidential candidate until...

They once dotted shopping plazas in America with ubiquity, beckoning binge watchers with shelves of VHS cassettes, microwave popcorn and boxes of candy —...

Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine's breakaway regions ordered civilians to be evacuated to Russia on Friday, accusing Ukraine of planning a large military offensive...

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the city of Boston violated the Constitution by refusing to allow a local organization to fly...

In recent months, U.S. renewable energy developers have delayed or cancelled several large battery projects intended to store electrical power on the grid, scuttling...

Texas Democrats and activists are warning that Governor Greg Abbott's executive order on immigration bears dangerous resemblances to Arizona's hardline SB-1070 law, which resulted...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen made a new push in Brussels to repair the United States' relationship with the European Union, urging EU members to...

On a quiet country road, four thin metal cylinders containing the world's most potent greenhouse gas are lashed to the base of a Duke...

Mike Yada can still vividly recall the day in August 2020 when it became apparent that his peculiar symptoms, which had appeared after a...

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi defied many of her Democratic colleagues last month when she told reporters that President Joe Biden does not...

Tanzania's President John Magufuli, one of Africa's most prominent coronavirus sceptics, has died aged 61, Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Wednesday after...

Federal intelligence officials issued a forewarning to police departments across the country in April 2009. "Right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans...

"Tuvalu is sinking," Finance Minister Seve Paeniu declares of his island nation during an interview with Yahoo News at the United Nations Climate Change...

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...

Paola Bezzon assumed her sniffles in December were just a seasonal cold until a serology test revealed coronavirus antibodies in her blood months later. Bezzon,...

The Biden administration is expected to announce a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics this week, according to a senior administration official...

Zeeshan Aleem, an MSNBC opinion columnist, slammed President Joe Biden on Monday for his latest "bumbling" foreign policy gaffe on Taiwan. Aleem slammed the president's...

Amber Heard has hired new lawyers in her latest legal battle. The actress has hired Ballard Spahr as her lead appellate counsel, less than a...

The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine may be less effective in people with obesity, data suggests. Italian researchers have discovered that healthcare workers with obesity produced only about...

Donald Dell, one of the Association of Tennis Professionals' (ATP) founders, says he supports Novak Djokovic's breakaway player's organization, but that the two organizations...

At a time when U.S. agencies and thousands of companies are fighting off major hacking campaigns originating in Russia and China, a different kind of...

West Virginia will receive $99 million as part of a settlement with Johnson & Johnson's subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. over the drugmaker's role in...

Prosecutors’ case against former Officer Derek Chauvin drew toward a close Monday with tender memories from George Floyd’s younger brother, along with another look at...

A former Irish soldier was convicted of belonging to the so-called Islamic State (IS) terror group. Lisa Smith, a former member of the Defence Forces,...

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...

According to the nation's most closely watched forecasting model, the United States is expected to see nearly 100,000 more COVID-19 deaths between now and...

The world leader who has had the most frequent conversations with Vice President Kamala Harris about US immigration policy describes her as a straight-talking,...

In the race for Pennsylvania governor, one of the country's most important midterm elections, Trump-backed Republican Doug Mastriano trails his Democratic opponent in fundraising,...

When it comes down to it, the actual impeachment process as defined by the U.S. Constitution is pretty simple. In theory, the President would...

The leader of an Iran-backed Iraqi militia has vowed to retaliate against America for the deaths of four of his men in an airstrike...

Six cryptocurrency users are suing the US Treasury Department for blacklisting Tornado Cash last month, claiming the department's sanctions watchdog overstepped its authority by...

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are concerned that funds from the Department of Homeland Security are being used to purchase Chinese solar panels...

The massive cyberattack on US software company Kaseya, which could affect up to 1,500 businesses, is heightening tensions between Washington and Moscow less than...

Because of "unknown hazards" in the area where a family and their dog were mysteriously found dead last month, federal forest officials closed trails...

Dr. Deborah Birx, the former White House Coronavirus Response Task Force Coordinator, says in her new book, published Tuesday, that problems with data collection...

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

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...

On Jan. 28, a 3-2 decision by a Pennsylvania court of appeals invalidated "Act 77," a law passed by the state legislature in 2019...

Last year, Fed officials were wary of overreacting to one-time price increases by raising interest rates and cooling the labor market if supply-chain bottlenecks...

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

On Wednesday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell testified before the House Oversight Committee as part of an investigation into the alleged toxic workplace environment at...

A growing number of Mexicans, Hondurans, Cubans, and Venezuelans are crossing the US-Mexico border, while some US policies may continue to funnel migrants into...

As world leaders prepare for the COP26 climate summit on October 31, AFP Fact Check investigates some common claims that call into question the...

The US Commerce Department blacklisted Israeli firms NSO Group and Candiru on Wednesday, accusing them of providing spyware to foreign governments who "maliciously targeted"...

Tensions between protesters and police intensified for the second night in a row Monday, a day after a Brooklyn Center police officer fatally shot...

According to officials, the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, which has so far escaped the brunt of the conflict, has recorded its first civilian...

In connection with fraud-related investigations, the US Secret Service is cracking down on illegal digital currency transactions, seizing more than $102 million in cryptocurrency...

The European Union's executive branch proposed a ban on Russian coal imports on Tuesday, the first EU sanctions aimed at the country's lucrative energy...

As the number of coronavirus infections among unvaccinated Americans continues to rise, Anthony S. Fauci, the nation's top infectious-disease expert, said on Sunday that...

Migrant families who were returned to Haiti by the US after attempting to enter the country from Mexico are outraged at their treatment and...

Aircraft carriers like the $13 billion USS Gerald R. Ford are floating symbols of America's military might. They are designed to deter adversaries from...

Texas residents can now sue Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube for allegedly censoring their content, after a federal appeals court sided with the state's law...

On Friday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) slammed Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) over reports that Democratic lawmakers are planning to introduce a ban...

It has been revealed where Cristiano Ronaldo will play club football in 2023 and beyond. The former Manchester United striker is reportedly set to...

When SoftBank Group Corp CEO Masayoshi Son unveiled the wide-eyed android Pepper in 2014, he painted a vision of a new era of personal...

On Friday, Russian forces seized a massive nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine, extending their siege of cities along the country's southern coast, including...

Climate change is arguably one of the greatest threats to mankind since the birth of civilization. A combination of natural phenomena (such as heat...

Florida On Thursday, Gov. Ron DeSantis slammed the Biden administration's plans to appeal a judge's decision enforcing mask requirements on planes and other forms...

In the first public congressional hearing on what are commonly known as UFOs in more than 50 years, a senior Defense Department intelligence official...

As authorities reversed more than two years of coronavirus controls, Chinese hospitals scrambled to contain new outbreaks across the nation on Monday. Authorities last week...

Residents of the Chinese city of Xi'an are subjected to a strict coronavirus lockdown, with business owners facing additional closures and some people reporting...

Britain will have its third prime minister in less than three years, with the ruling Conservative Party announcing Monday that Liz Truss had been...

Students graduating from Seattle Pacific University (SPU) were seen handing the president of the school LGBT pride flags as part of a protest against...

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 Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin traveled to Israel in June to scout potential investments for his new company, then flew to Qatar for a...

The South African government announced Friday that it will donate slightly more than 2 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to other...

In the latest flare-up of tensions in the region, China's military announced the resumption of military drills around the island in response to the...

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

Dillard's surprised investors last week by reporting a record first-quarter profit. Macy's (NYSE: M) couldn't quite match that performance, but the department store behemoth...