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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...

There's a reason why so many seniors rush to file for Social Security at the age of 62: it's the earliest age to begin...

Naomi Osaka tells the story. It comes from Florida, where the world's best young tennis players gather and compete. Osaka, about ten years old,...

The Montreux Convention of 1936 gave Turkey control over key Black Sea straits, an agreement that is still regarded as a major victory for...

A fourth wave of COVID-19 is threatening to overwhelm US hospitals in areas where large numbers of unvaccinated people offer little resistance to the...

Higher mortgage rates continued to dampen housing market activity as permits for new construction fell and single-family homebuilding in the United States fell to...

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

This year, President Biden was in a private meeting discussing student debt forgiveness when the conversation turned to inflation, as it so often does...

Russian authorities said Wednesday they are slowing down the speed of uploading photos and videos to Twitter over its failure to remove banned content...

Russia has upped its saber rattling in Eastern Europe and the Arctic, a move that has put the Biden administration on alert. In the past...

Aviation experts say the plane that crashed in the South China mountains on Monday was one of the safest in the world, raising questions...

"I murdered my own baby," yelled a Republican state representative in New Hampshire, who had previously said she regretted her own abortion. Representative Susan DeLemus...

As the first year of President Donald Trump's zero-tolerance border policy comes to a close, the Biden administration's effort to reunite separated children and...

On Monday, U.S. Health Secretary Xavier Becerra ordered Medicare to reconsider a large premium increase that will affect millions of seniors this year, which...

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...

Some Republican states are expanding unemployment benefits for employees who were fired or quit due to vaccine mandates, a move that critics say effectively...

Imagine for a minute your entire search history was open for everyone to see. That’s a scary thought, right? Embarrassing queries aside, there are certain things...

The Olympic trajectory that had Simone Biles on track for multiple gold medals has shifted from all but certain to, at best, hazy. Biles withdrew...

NASA and Russia's space agency changed the course of the International Space Station (ISS) to avoid colliding with debris that was heading in the...

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

Facial recognition technology is making a comeback in the United States, as bans intended to thwart the technology and reduce racial bias in policing...

On Sunday, Novak Djokovic left Australia after three federal judges upheld the decision to revoke his visa for the second time. "I can confirm that...

Women can always give their babies up for adoption, so abortions are unnecessary. That appeared to be Justice Amy Coney Barrett's argument during oral...

Donald Trump has sued Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee, and other people and entities connected to the investigation into Russian election meddling in...

A conservative think tank CEO who promises to fight critical race theory and supports giving children public money for private school scholarships appears to...

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...

On Tuesday, White House officials struggled to explain harrowing images of border agents brutalizing Haitian migrants, facing a growing backlash from outraged Democrats seeking...

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...

A prosecutor who sent some of those children to prison is now in charge of turning around South Carolina's chronically dangerous juvenile prisons. Eden Hendrick,...

The European champions returned home at dawn Monday to the ecstatic cheers of Italians who had spent the better part of the night honking...

Later this month, U.S. intelligence agencies will deliver to Congress a highly anticipated unclassified report on what they know about UFOs, or Unexplained Aerial...

According to video evidence, the Republican Party is forming a grassroots "army" to target and potentially overturn election results in Democratic precincts. The alleged scheme...

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 a Reuters analysis of data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) and more than a half-dozen industry officials and lobbyists,...

Squaw Valley, a popular Lake Tahoe ski resort, announced in September that it would change its name because the term was "derogatory and offensive."...

Concern is mounting that China’s Covid-19 vaccines are less effective at quelling the disease, raising questions about nations from Brazil to Hungary that are...

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

Should Russia escalate its attacks on Ukraine and its allies, a US aircraft carrier is ready to lead an international charge. The USS George H.W....

Hundreds of people demonstrated in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Tuesday against what they claim are Taliban orders for citizens to leave their homes on the...

Russia has officially begun the main phase of massive joint military exercises in Belarus, despite Western countries' warnings that Russian forces massed near Ukraine...

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...

Community groups in New Jersey and California are suing the EPA to force trash incinerators across the country — many of which are in...

The House of Representatives passed a Democratic-led package of gun violence prevention legislation on Wednesday, amid widespread calls for action in the aftermath of...

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...

Lin Wood, a pro-Trump lawyer, has no basis to seek federal court relief from a State Bar of Georgia investigation into whether he is...

As world leaders gathered in New York to condemn him, Russian President Vladimir Putin was back at home, scrambling to replenish his depleted war...

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 American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists filed a brief opposing Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban as the Supreme Court considers whether to uphold the...

According to court documents, Christopher Belter raped the girl when she was 16 years old. He, too, was a teen, a student at an...

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

Two European officials told reporters that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told European allies that the US believes the Russian war in Ukraine...

In a new Netflix series that documents the couple's separation from the royal family and criticizes British media and societal racism they believe has...

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans have struggled to organize their everyday lives with the same consistency and energy as before. Because...

According to watchdog groups, an antisemitic hate group was behind a banner hung over a busy Los Angeles freeway on Saturday that said, "Kanye...

Remember last month when WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram were all unavailable for several hours? Not only did people find it difficult to communicate with...

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

Clean energy campaigners claim to have disrupted supplies from three oil terminals in the Midlands and south-east of England, while motorists complain that some...

On Monday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy accused President Joe Biden and his administration of fomenting a “crisis” along the US-Mexico border. Biden’s abandonment...

Last year, nearly 43,000 people were killed on American roads, the highest number in 16 years, as people returned to the roads after the...

A group of Republican senators has written to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to ask why a Christian organization was initially denied tax-exempt status. The...

Honduran presidential candidate Xiomara Castro declared victory in the election on Sunday, as supporters danced outside her offices to celebrate the left's return to...

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

Anderson Lee Aldrich has been named as the suspect in a shooting that occurred this past weekend at a gay nightclub in Colorado. According...

A good place to begin with your search for Life Insurance is online. The Internet has numerous insurance companies and agents that are ready...

Abortion travel benefits, which are now being offered by many American employers, are illegal under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964...

The Vermont House of Representatives is scheduled to begin debate on an amendment that would enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution...

Judge in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin granted prosecutors’ request to add third-degree murder charge Thursday, giving the jury more...

The United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) reported that 560,826 mail-in ballots were rejected in the 2020 presidential election. The Election Administration Commission (EAC)...

Many Americans have abandoned their facemasks. They're going to see friends and family. They're going out to eat once more. For the most part,...

Former President Donald Trump arrived at the New York Attorney General's office on Wednesday morning to give sworn testimony in a long-running civil investigation...

As abortion laws in the South and Midwest prohibit nearly all abortions in a dozen states, some city officials are looking for new ways...

Just over a year after the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, Republicans mostly still support Donald Trump, but it...

According to an email, the State Department refused to grant official approval for private evacuation flights from Afghanistan to land in third countries, despite...

On Wednesday, U.S. government scientists announced that they had taken an important step toward making nuclear fusion - the process that powers stars -...

Almost six in ten Americans disapprove of how Joe Biden is handling his presidency, with the majority of that group saying there is nothing...

There has been a recent surge of parents choosing to enroll their kids in private schools due to the lack of face-to-face contact in...

Alexandra Abrams, who worked on Blue Origin's communications team for two and a half years, was once so convinced she'd spend her entire life...

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, stated on Monday night that his electric vehicle company has yet to sign a contract with Hertz, a rental...

Japan and the United States joined forces Tuesday to criticize China's “coercion and aggression" in Asia as senior ministers from both countries held their...

When the wounded Ukrainian soldier surrendered to Russian forces in May at the pulverized Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, he was unable to say...