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Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Facebook, could be in for a rough ride on Thursday when he testifies to Congress for the first time...

When Chief Justice John Roberts cast the deciding vote in 2012 that upheld Barack Obama's signature achievement as president, the Affordable Care Act, he...

The Republican Conference's second-highest ranking member publicly called for the removal of GOP conference chair Liz Cheney, who has repeatedly criticized former President Trump...

Omicron is already altering the way medicine combats COVID-19. Despite the fact that it has only recently become widespread in the United States, doctors, pharmacists,...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Tuesday that agents are conducting a human smuggling investigation and were at the scene of a devastating crash in...

The elite Russian state hackers behind last year's massive SolarWinds cyberespionage campaign haven't slowed down this year, infiltrating a slew of US and allied...

The NAACP made a direct request to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday for the Justice Department to launch a federal civil rights investigation...

A US basketball player from Maryland was in Ukraine playing in international leagues about a week ago. He had no idea that within days...

President Joe Biden is set to present the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military honor for valor, to three U.S. soldiers for their...

In an emotional debate on Thursday, U.S. Catholic bishops clashed over how to address concerns about Catholic politicians, including President Joe Biden, who continue...

Although doctors have long suggested that exercise can lower the risk of serious COVID-19 outcomes, such as hospitalization and death, it has never been...

Britain bid farewell to Queen Elizabeth II, the country's longest-serving monarch, at a historic funeral watched by millions around the world, which reflected her...

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

Vermont, known for Bernie Sanders, maple syrup, and the birthplace of Ben and Jerry's ice cream, now has a new claim to fame: it...

Sen. Scott Wiener (D), a state senator from California, is the target of a coordinated attack by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Charlie...

Lesa Tard anticipates that the clean energy revolution will bring more hot wings and cheeseburgers to Stanton with Ford's plans to build a factory...

If you use Zelle, you should keep an eye on your bank accounts. Sending money to family or making a rent payment via Zelle has...

Instead of relying on in-demand standard chips, some of the world's largest technology companies are developing their own semiconductors. According to company announcements and media...

The U.S. government expanded a program on Monday that permits some Haitian immigrants to live and work there without worrying about being deported, citing...

The United States Food and Drug Administration approved the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines for children as young as six months old on Friday, but...

Miss India Harnaaz Sandhu is the new Miss Universe. The reigning Miss Universe, Andrea Meza of Mexico, crowned her successor on Sunday night at the...

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

People vaccinated against Covid-19 in high-risk areas of the United States should resume wearing masks indoors, the country's top health official said Tuesday, reversing...

Afghanistan’s beleaguered government will be on its own against the Taliban once American forces withdraw in September. The strength of the insurgency, combined with...

After a winter storm pounded the mid-Atlantic and dumped more than a foot of snow in some places, ice and snow stranded scores of...

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

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...

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...

The economy of the United States grew at a disappointing rate in the second quarter, indicating that the country has emerged from the grip...

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...

If you're the type of parent who prefers to drive your children to school, there was no better place to be last school year...

A federal grand jury has indicted four former Minneapolis police officers who were involved in George Floyd's arrest and death, accusing them of willfully...

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...

According to Iranian state media, Iran's largest navy ship sank early Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman after catching fire, the latest blow to...

Wildlife conservationists are outraged after a video published by the New Yorker and The Trance on Tuesday showed the NRA's president and his wife...

The wedding industry continues to be wasteful, but a growing number of brides and grooms are pushing for more environmentally friendly changes, from the...

The Manele family in Guadalcanal, an island in the South Pacific Ocean, prepares for a typical Monday night dinner as coconut crabs roast on...

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

Donald Trump's family business is set to face a criminal trial in New York on tax fraud charges beginning next week, which could result...

Another high-level meeting between US and Chinese officials began with criticism, this time in the Chinese city of Tianjin, just outside of Beijing. According to...

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

In a letter to President Biden on Monday, House Democrats urged him to restart negotiations on the climate goals included in the stalled Build...

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...

Weary doctors and nurses on the front lines of the pandemic are preparing to treat hospitalized Covid-19 patients over the Christmas holiday for the...

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued broad new directives to immigration officers on Thursday, stating that being an undocumented immigrant "should not alone be...

American democracy is in rapid decline, India is no longer a free country, and at most 20 percent of the world’s population lives in...

A World Health Organization (WHO) collaborator who reviewed a coronavirus research grant application discovered last month confirmed that the language of the documents indicates...

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

Officials in Russian-occupied Ukraine announced plans for Russia to annex four regions in the country's east and south, while Moscow moved to clear the...

The World Bank has warned that the conflict in Ukraine will result in the "largest commodity shock" since the 1970s. According to a new forecast,...

Bomb-throwers in the House Freedom Caucus derailed Kevin McCarthy's bid for speaker in 2015. Members of the ultraconservative, Trump-aligned group are causing major headaches for...

A new federal law that will enable Canadians with mental illness to request Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) for their illness is being denounced...

The middle-aged patient had been battling coronavirus for months. Doctors had provided the antivirus needed to fight Covid-19, medications to alleviate blood clots, immune...

Authorities say a suspect shot and killed four people and injured three others, including a police officer, in a shooting spree that began in...

Lilibet is a reference to Queen Elizabeth's childhood, when she struggled to pronounce her own name. "Lilibet is my pride; Margaret is my joy,"...

Pick-up truck drivers pull up to a white trailer in a parking lot on Fallon Paiute-Shoshone land in Nevada's high desert and are handed...

The Justice Department said in a court filing Thursday that the hundreds of pages of classified government records seized from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate...

According to a report released Friday, no school year in the United States has seen as much gunfire in nearly a decade as the...

In the last two years, this has happened five times. COVID- A few weeks before they rose in the United States, 19 cases spiked...

Stocks are mostly higher on Wall Street as traders prepare for the return of economic data and corporate earnings after the year-end holidays. In...

Former President Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon said Tuesday that he expects to be charged soon in a state criminal case in New York...

If you want to see what bare-knuckled political power by special interests looks like, look no further than the derailment of Sarah Bloom Raskin's...

Last week, politicians and leaders gathered in Glasgow for COP26 to work out policies to address the climate crisis. Because the need for energy...

The White House announced Tuesday that President Joe Biden is releasing 50 million barrels of oil from the nation's emergency stockpile to reduce energy...

According to an excerpt from his book "Breaking History: A White House Memoir" provided to The New York Times, Jared Kushner, a billionaire real...

Carissa Moore of the United States became the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal in surfing today. The Hawaiian surfer, who is so...

According to an analysis, high school graduation rates fell in at least 20 states after the pandemic disrupted the first full school year, implying...

President Joe Biden will celebrate America's victory over Covid-19 with a July 4th barbecue this Sunday, but the smoke from the fireworks will barely...

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...

The word is now out that there are several new strains of the coronavirus spreading around the world and now across the United States....

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

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...

With COVID-19 numbers skyrocketing over the Holidays and death tolls steadily on the rise, the country’s top expert on Coronavirus, Dr. Fauci gives his warnings...

The American jobs engine slowed significantly last month, confounding optimistic forecasts of the pace of recovery and sharpening debates over how to best revive...

Facebook's oversight panel announced a probe into the company's system for allegedly exempting high-profile users from its own rules on Thursday, accusing the embattled...

Celebrities are speaking out after the death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was shot and killed by a police officer in a Minneapolis suburb during a...

Olympic officials defended rules that forced a US medal contender out of the Tokyo Games on Friday, after a Republican senator suggested without evidence...

Meghan Markle filed a formal complaint with British broadcaster ITV following Piers Morgan’s critical comments about her, according to multiple newspapers. The Guardian and The Telegraph...

After nearly three days of fighting, Israel and Palestinian militants agreed to a cease-fire, and Gaza's sole power plant reopened Monday as Israel reopened...

In Lakerland, it's far too early for panic, but it's never too early for concern. It's one thing to blow a 26-point game to the...