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Uganda's schools reopened to students on Monday, bringing the world's longest school closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic to an end. The reopening caused traffic...

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...

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

Because of the Ukraine invasion, a proposal that the European Union ban visas for all Russian tourists has sparked a debate in the continent's...

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...

President Biden supported making an exception to filibuster rules in order to pass legislation codifying Roe v. Wade into law, an effort that would...

In 2018, a mother and her daughter were killed after being hit by Cameron Herrin's car. Herrin received a 24-year prison sentence in April...

He wasn't really in "goblin mode" after all. Elon Musk tweeted a series of suggestions for improving Twitter last week after it was revealed...

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...

According to a source familiar with the situation, Ivanka Trump, former President Donald J. Trump's eldest daughter and one of his top advisers, plans...

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

With the U.S. pause of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine stretched into a second week, authorities are weighing whether to resume the shots the...

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

Nearly two dozen Republicans who have publicly questioned or disputed the 2020 election results are running for secretary of state across the country, in...

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...

The Social Security Administration announced an 8.7 percent increase in benefit checks for seniors beginning next year, in response to the fastest rate of...

Russian forces advanced deep into the ruined eastern factory city of Sievierodonetsk on Friday, but Ukrainian troops resisted as Russia's assault on its neighbor...

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,...

South Carolina lawmakers are the latest to pass legislation prohibiting transgender athletes from participating in women's sports in public schools and universities. Despite over 1,000...

As the world suffers from a punishing drought this summer, bodies of water have dried up, exposing submerged World War II relics in Europe,...

A subway overpass collapsed in Mexico City on Monday night, sending the cars of a passenger train crashing to the ground and killing at...

Every year smart glasses threaten to become the next big thing in tech Could Facebook or a smaller player like Vuzix make this happen? The promise of...

TikTok is well-known for its popular challenges among children and teenagers. Most challenges are harmless, such as dance challenges and style transition challenges that...

The Taliban now control a trillion-dollar trove of minerals, including some that could power the world's transition to renewable energy, but Afghanistan has long...

To pay for new Covid-19 vaccines, testing, and therapeutics, Congress is considering taking back some of the money it authorized last year for a...

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

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday that the global death toll from the coronavirus had reached 4 million. The UN's health agency...

Europe reported its first case of the rapidly spreading new coronavirus variant, and dozens of countries restricted travel to and from southern Africa, where...

Jonathan and Bryan Espinoza, brothers, claim they witnessed "chaos" at the Astroworld Festival from the moment they stepped inside. On Friday night, a crowd surge...

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

For weeks, César Salomé, a physician in Lima’s Hospital Mongrut, had followed the chilling reports. A new coronavirus variant, spawned in the Amazon rainforest,...

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...

Cloning is described as the intentional creation of genetically exact duplicates of an organism. Each resulting individual is a copy of the original. It...

When Mayor Lori Lightfoot approached them in a hospital following the shooting of two officers on Saturday night, about 30 Chicago police officers reportedly...

Amazon ended its late-year event with a surprise announcement: Astro, a new robot that's essentially a tablet on wheels with enough cameras to host...

Susan Isaacson was at a Highland Park cafe one recent morning when she heard a smoke alarm go off. Casey, 7, and Ava, 5, her...

Top House Democrats called on the Biden administration on Sunday to extend the eviction moratorium amid the coronavirus pandemic, just hours after the ban...

Former Trump adviser Scott Atlas blames Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci for "headline-dominating debacles" about quack cures for Covid-19 in a new book, but...

Andy Stone is one of the fortunate. The New Yorker saw a tweet from a local AIDS activist stating that monkeypox vaccines would be...

In late 2016, New York Republican congressional candidate Carl Paladino told a radio host that Black Americans were kept "dumb and hungry" in order...

Ordinary citizens across Kyiv are arming themselves as Russian forces close in on the capital city after two days of heavy attacks and hundreds...

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,...

The legacy media is finally shedding light on Hunter Biden's mounting scandal, but the manner in which the five liberal networks address (or don't...

It's one of the most perplexing problems in modern astronomy: Based on multiple observations of stars and galaxies, the universe appears to be collapsing...

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...

The European Union is close to reaching an agreement on a set of new rules aimed at protecting internet users by requiring large tech...

Cade Cunningham is not to blame. He was born in 2001, after all, and it would be impossible for him to recall Michael Jordan's...

Huawei will begin charging smartphone makers a royalty to use its patented 5G technology as the Chinese technology firm looks to open a new...

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...

Tucker Carlson, a Fox News propagandist whose nightly program frequently has the greatest audience of any cable news program, regularly denigrates the LGBTQ community...

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...

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...

A former high-ranking US ambassador is demanding that federal prosecutors explain why he is facing criminal charges for illegal foreign lobbying on Qatar's behalf...

According to Harvard economist Jason Furman, Russia's economy is 'unimportant' except for its natural gas resources. His remarks come as the United States and Europe...

The Olympic torch arrived in Beijing on Wednesday, kicking off the countdown to the Winter Games, which will be held in the shadow of...

Airlines for America, along with 28 other airline, travel, and business groups, wrote to White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeffrey Zients on Wednesday, urging...

China has begun construction of more than 100 new intercontinental ballistic missile silos in a desert near the northwestern city of Yumen, according to...

We've seen Aaron Rodgers as guest host of the legendary quiz show "Jeopardy" for nearly two weeks now. He's a self-admitted superfan of the...

The Texas primaries on Tuesday will provide the first pieces of the puzzle that will be the 2022 midterm elections. The ideological strength of the...

The Supreme Court issued its decision in a major case involving whether there is a fundamental right to carry a concealed handgun outside the...

China will step up efforts to further open up the financial industry to foreign investment as a means of bolstering its post-coronavirus economic recovery...

Following the violent insurrection at the Capitol last week, the House of Representatives, now led by the Democratic Party, are anticipated to vote on...

After a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the southwestern part of the island Saturday, crumbling homes, destroying roads, and killing over 2,000 people, the United States...

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...

A senior Republican senator said he and his colleagues could support an infrastructure bill of around $800 billion, underscoring GOP interest in a bipartisan...

The novelty coins are simple, gleaming expressions of support for former President Donald J. Trump. They're also one of the hottest products on the...

The Biden administration backtracked on a contentious proposal to direct the IRS to collect additional data on every bank account with more than $600...

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...

As a water crisis persists in Jackson, Mississippi, where residents' faucets are receiving brown water or nothing at all, authorities are scrambling to bring...

Whether you prefer to kill insects or not, there is one bug that health officials in the northeastern United States want you to get...

China accused the Biden administration on Thursday of playing politics and avoiding responsibility by calling for a new investigation into the origins of the...

A recent federal government study found that, while the student population in American public schools has grown significantly more diverse, segregation remains a persistent...

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...

When the 44th Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday night, the lights at the Eccles Theater will be dim, and there will be fewer...

President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that his administration will prohibit Russian oil, natural gas, and coal imports into the United States in response...

"No Mandate Monday" may be making its way to a school near you. Some students and teachers at a California high school took part in...

Mumps cases are still being reported in the United States, primarily among vaccinated people, including children. Mumps cases fell by more than 99 percent in...

As the US withdrew from Afghanistan and chaos ensued, Republican lawmakers were quick to criticize President Joe Biden's handling of the withdrawal. The violence in...

The Supreme Court has significantly limited the scope of the country's main cybercrime law, limiting a tool that civil liberties advocates say federal prosecutors...

New polls show that President Joe Biden's approval ratings remain stubbornly low, even in Democratic strongholds like New York and California. According to a Siena...