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Many compared the battle between a scrappy group of former and current warehouse workers on Staten Island, New York, and Amazon in a union...

President Biden took office with a detailed plan to combat Covid-19, including accelerating vaccinations, reopening schools, and selling a massive stimulus package to assist...

The war in Afghanistan did not end when US and UK troops left Kabul airport last year; it simply took a new, but still...

Fighting near Ukraine's largest nuclear power plant has fueled fears of an international nuclear disaster, and world leaders are concerned. Foreign ministers from the Group...

Hong Kong residents in Canada are banding together to assist the latest influx of migrants fleeing Beijing's tightening grip on their city. Networks across the...

High school athletics are feeling the effects of the omicron surge, from paused games to restricted fans, during a winter season that coaches and...

According to a coalition of immigrant groups, a Fairfax County policy aimed at protecting undocumented immigrants from deportation is not being implemented aggressively enough....

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) stormed away from an interview Wednesday for the victims of the Uvalde, Texas, massacre after a British journalist asked him...

Twitter lost over 1.3 million users in the week following Elon Musk's $44 billion purchase of the social media platform. According to MIT Technology Review,...

Are Americans truly staying at home as a result of increased unemployment benefits? That narrative may be difficult to accept for many people who...

Ukrainians are once again concerned about the fate of a nuclear power plant in a country that was the site of the world's worst...

In recent days, violent protests in Kazakhstan have resulted in the resignation of the government and the declaration of a state of emergency, as...

Potential Islamic State attacks on Americans in Afghanistan are forcing the US military to devise new methods of transporting evacuees to Kabul's airport, according...

The Los Angeles County sheriff said detectives have determined what caused Tiger Woods to crash his SUV last month in Southern California but declined...

COVID-19 vaccine developers are making increasingly bold claims that the world will require yearly booster shots or new vaccines to combat concerning coronavirus variants,...

A Texas state law that prohibits abortion after six weeks of pregnancy could serve as a model for red states to enact stringent abortion...

President Volodymyr Zelensky warned overnight that the fate of Ukraine's entire Donbas region is dependent on the strategic city of Severodonetsk, as he urged...

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Democratic President Joe Biden's administration's request to overturn former President Donald Trump's "remain in Mexico" immigration...

Frigid air, spilling south from the Arctic, has invaded Europe and Alaska, setting back spring and challenging long-standing records. In Europe, the cold has come...

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...

Former Navy Secretary Kenneth Braithwaite traveled the world during his brief tenure in the Trump administration, spending approximately $2.4 million on air travel. Braithwaite spent...

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...

The new home of Elize Lutz and Harrie Dekkers is a 94-square-meter (1,011-square-foot) two-bedroom bungalow that resembles a boulder with windows. Its gray concrete walls'...

Historians consider it the worst Native American massacre in US history. Despite this, few people have heard of it. According to historians and tribal leaders,...

White House officials are seizing the political opportunity in Democrats' doomsday scenario, the end of nationwide abortion rights, to try to save President Joe...

According to the State Department, the US government now considers WNBA star Brittney Griner to be "wrongfully detained" in Russia. "The welfare and safety of...

The University of Michigan has reached a $490 million settlement with former athletes and other University of Michigan students who sued the school alleging...

Over the last few years, many communities across the country have enacted plastic bag bans. Bans are typically announced at the local level. However,...

The city of Philadelphia announced Monday that mask mandates will be reinstated next week, less than a month after they were lifted across the...

Just moments after the Brigham Young University Cougars scored their first touchdown during Saturday's football game, University of Oregon students erupted in a chant...

  According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the general public could start to have access to the Covid-19 vaccines as early as April in the United...

The Rev. Athanasius Chidi Abanulo, who uses skills honed in his African homeland to effectively minister in rural Alabama, decides how long he can...

Idaho became the first state on Wednesday to pass a law modeled after a Texas law prohibiting abortion after six weeks of pregnancy and...

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...

An elderly housekeeper at a former hotel in Long Beach, California, that was being used to quarantine people with COVID-19, tested positive for the...

Climate change and habitat loss from big agriculture are working together to suffocate global insect populations, according to a new study, with each problem...

For years, the city of Boston has rotated dozens of flags on a pole outside City Hall to honor veterans, paramedics, sports teams, and...

There will be no Democrat running against incumbent Republican Rep. Kelly Armstrong for North Dakota's sole congressional seat in November. Mark Haugen, the former...

Republicans used President Joe Biden's State of the Union address on Tuesday to launch campaign-style attacks on what many GOP members see as the...

As the Coronavirus spreads at an alarming rate, everyone must take measures to ensure their safety. With multiple ways to stay safe like wearing...

The Canadian government announced Friday that it will prohibit the importation of handguns into the country, the latest in a series of gun-control measures...

South Carolina school districts now have the authority to require masks and should consult with their lawyers about what kind of accommodations they need...

The rise in consumer prices, which pushed inflation to a four-decade high of 6.8 percent in November, has prompted the Federal Reserve to drastically...

On Wednesday, a person started shooting close to a Duke Energy facility at Wateree Hydro Station in Ridgeway, South Carolina, according to CBS News. Several...

The Democratic Party has shifted to the left on US policy toward Israel in recent years, showing a greater willingness to criticize Israel and...

Haseena Niazi had staked her hopes for her fiancé's departure from Afghanistan on a rarely used immigration provision. Given the evidence he provided about Taliban...

President Bashar al-Assad, once regarded as a reformer but now regarded as a tyrant by his many detractors after a decade of war and...

On Wednesday morning, students at a New Jersey high school logged into their remote landscape and design class, expecting their teacher to lead a...

Many people who have medical debt on their credit reports will soon receive assistance. Beginning Friday, the three major credit reporting companies in the United...

On the eve of a hearing for three men accused in Ahmaud Arbery's death, his family witnessed the repeal of a Civil War-era law...

Sarah Bloom Raskin, President Joe Biden's nominee to lead the Federal Reserve's regulatory work, told US lawmakers on Thursday that she believes banks require...

Night after night, tear gas has hung like a cloud over the Sterling Square Apartments, just across the street from the Brooklyn Center Police...

When the neighborhood she grew up in, Boston's Chinatown, was destroyed, Mary Yee was in elementary school. Beginning in the late 1950s, the state built...

Cardano's ADA token soared by 150 percent in August to become the world's third largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. However, its triumph appears to...

Over the last several weeks, extremely disturbing videos have emerged that appear to be focused around attacking elderly Asian-Americans. Most of these videos have...

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...

With the current surge of COVID-19 cases, New York City's new mayor, Eric Adams, who was sworn in just after midnight on New Year's...

On Friday morning, the death toll in Eastern Kentucky rose to 16, including two children, after torrential rains flooded the region, destroying hundreds of...

The congressional panel investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol will hold its ninth and possibly final hearing on Donald Trump's "state...

United Parcel Service is taking package delivery to new heights, literally, with the purchase of 10 electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft from Beta...

Last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk proposed what is becoming a less radical idea about work: that physical labor will be optional. What is...

The Rover “Perseverance” is expected to land on Mars on Thursday. This has been the riskiest step towards the legendary quest to bring back...

Julia Ma did something last week that the majority of people in the United States cannot: she received an authorized second COVID-19 booster shot...

The House of Representatives is currently preparing to send over articles of impeachment to the Senate on Monday morning, and as that takes place,...

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-New York, said it was difficult for her to vote against the $1.9 trillion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. However, in the...

The metaverse has recently become a hot topic of discussion, with both Facebook and Microsoft claiming ownership. But what exactly is the metaverse? And...

As missed warning signs pile up in mass-shooting investigations, New York state is implementing a novel strategy to screen applicants for gun permits. People...

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

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,...

As abortion rights battles rage across the country, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, is facing criticism from top Catholic leaders over her abortion...

Joe Biden began his presidency with a promise to advance equity, which entails favoring certain races and ethnicities over others in order to reduce...

25th of September, 2001 It's a date that many Michael Jordan fans don't believe exists. Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of Michael Jordan's return from...

Concerns about escalating violence during contentious rallies in Portland, Oregon, have been heightened by a gunfight last week between far-right demonstrators and anti-fascist counter-protesters. The...

President-elect Joe Biden is promising that his climate agenda will begin in his first few days as president to combat the climate crisis and...

According to reports, Chinese-owned TikTok is working feverishly to transfer all data it has on US users to the US and put an American...

On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv to push a plan to de-escalate the "extreme tension" between Russia...

Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' space company, filed a lawsuit against NASA's Moon program in federal court on Monday. The complaint escalates the company's months-long...

A federal judge has ordered Alabama to stop being vague and to provide a firm answer by Thursday evening on whether the prison system...

On Thursday, India issued new regulations on several social media platforms just weeks after India's government standoff with Twitter. These new regulations now require social...