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Even as the US and its allies try to devise coordinated policies to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine, Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran are warning...

The gun violence epidemic in the United States has been described as a uniquely American problem, with calls for increased gun control or common...

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

More than 60 major corporations have signed an open letter calling on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to retract comments he made late last...

Some of the world's most famous people gathered in London on Sunday night for the first-ever "Earthshot Prize" awards ceremony, hosted by Britain's Prince...

More than 130 people, including Gloria Steinem, and organizations involved in women's rights advocacy, domestic violence and sexual assault awareness, have signed an open...

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

In Manila, the capital of the Philippines, Raquel Fortun whispers to the scattered human skeletal remains. She wants to know the truth about their...

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

After announcing that al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had been killed in a US drone strike, Joe Biden took a well-deserved - and somewhat necessary...

Several decades ago, Mexican activists drove women to the United States to have their pregnancies terminated at clinics. Women in the United States are...

A Montana hospital went into lockdown and called the police after a woman threatened violence because a relative's request for ivermectin treatment was denied. Another...

The US Embassy in Beijing has apologized after a social media post meant to herald the removal of some pandemic barriers between the two...

Moderna is about to administer the 200 millionth dose of its COVID-19 vaccine. Tiera May works at the facility in Bloomington, Indiana, a small...

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

According to a new analysis, judges in Multnomah County, where Portland is located, have dismissed more than 200 felony cases since February due to...

Huawei Technologies Co. claims it was treated unfairly when the US government labeled it a security threat, but China's largest technology company is seeking...

After Ida's remnants swept through the East Coast, killing at least 48 people, New York's mayor said the heavy rains should cause everyone to...

A group of men detained at Arkansas' Washington County Detention Center claim that the jail's medical staff gave them the anti-parasite drug ivermectin without...

Layshia Clarendon was overcome with emotion when she learned that Idaho had passed anti-transgender legislation, making it the first state in the country to...

According to Chinese state media, a 47-year-old man stormed into a law firm in China's Wuhan city last week and shot dead a lawyer...

Former President Trump’s deceit and insistence that the Presidential election was rigged may have have gone too far for the attorneys who were suppose...

A Texas rabbi who was kidnapped along with three members of his congregation by an armed man demanding the release of a convicted terrorist...

Historians cut into a 36-pound copper time capsule found in the pedestal of a monument to former Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Richmond,...

According to the S. Korea intelligence agency, North Korea had attempted to steal COVID-19 vaccine tech from the pharmaceutical manufacturer Pfizer. However, it is...

Two of the nation's top health agencies authorized and expanded COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to allow older Americans to receive a second booster shot in...

Following two days of testimony from abortion experts, providers, and the state's chief medical officer, a Michigan judge barred county prosecutors from enforcing the...

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...

Millions of homeowners are missing out on hundreds of dollars in savings by refinancing their mortgages. According to the most recent report from a mortgage...

According to an email sent to Trump's lawyers in May 2021 by National Archives and Records Administration chief counsel Gary Stern, Trump-era records were...

Daniel Encinias stands next to his camping trailer in a New Mexico evacuation zone, vowing to rebuild his home, which was destroyed by the...

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...

As the year 2021 draws to a close, a wave of book bans has spread surprisingly quickly among state and local officials. Fortunately, if...

YouTube is launching a $100 million fund to compensate creators of Shorts, its take on TikTok, and has hinted that it will soon begin...

Earlier this year, as debates raged over reopening schools and including education funding in a massive coronavirus relief package, the nation's largest teachers' unions...

Seven African immigrant leaders gathered in a large hall of a newly renovated church on Martin Luther King Jr. Street in Grand Rapids to...

A member of a men's chorus group in South Florida unintentionally slammed into fellow chorists at the start of a Pride parade, killing one...

As he’s reeled from twin scandals over his treatment of women and COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has had...

Tom Amenta, a Chicago native who enlisted in the US military against his family's wishes, said he found himself in the "middle of nowhere,"...

According to an exclusive American Civil Liberties Union report, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is limiting immigrants' access to lawyers in its detention centers,...

With the nation's top public health officials as their audience, Senate Republicans on Thursday voiced their displeasure with the Biden administration's new broad-reaching vaccine...

Districts are planning to ramp up COVID-19 testing when classes resume in January, anticipating steep challenges in reopening schools amid an omicron-driven surge of...

What is the lone force that can keep purported Big Tech villains like Facebook and Google from supplanting themselves as dominant platforms? Republicans. Normally, those...

The Justice Department argued in a newly unsealed court filing that former President Donald Trump mischaracterized White House documents he retained after leaving office...

According to a legal official, a court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted former leader Aung San Suu Kyi in another criminal case Thursday and sentenced...

For families who are struggling financially, budgeting can be a chore. It can be especially frustrating because even when you have everything planned and...

A Florida internet law is on hold while a lawsuit is being heard. Judge Robert Hinkle has issued a preliminary injunction preventing the implementation...

Nordstrom was hit harder than most retailers by the pandemic. Its product assortment has traditionally been skewed toward fashion apparel and footwear, but with...

If you were to look at Dubai right now you may think life is back to normal. Recently, the busy city has been a...

Japan will release more than a million tons of treated water from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean, the government said Tuesday,...

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced today at the company's Intel Accelerated webcast that the company is rethinking how it releases — and brands —...

The most commonly reported sensation following an abortion is not pain. It feels good. Several studies have found this to be true. However, there is...

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, danced for joy at the opening of his "giga-factory" electric car plant near Berlin on Tuesday, shrugging off...

The Democratic Party has been tearing itself apart over whether to spend $3.5 trillion, $2 trillion, or even $1.5 trillion on its latest reconciliation...

Many recent questions about technology ethics have centered on the role of algorithms in various aspects of our lives. As artificial intelligence and machine...

Make room in the market for a new competitor to provide broadband internet access from low Earth orbit: Astra Space, which went public with...

This weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris will face her most important foreign policy assignment yet in Germany, where she will try to keep European...

The United States is at an unprecedented point in the pandemic, with just under half of the population fully vaccinated, health and safety restrictions...

Ukraine said on Thursday that Russia had gathered 106,000 troops and 1,500 tanks near its border and demanded a "verified withdrawal" of Russian forces,...

The family of a 42-year-old Black man who died in a barrage of bullets fired at his car by North Carolina sheriff's deputies are expected...

The Justice Department charged an Army doctor and a Johns Hopkins anesthesiologist on Thursday with conspiring to provide medical information about US soldiers and...

The Nasdaq at 19,000, Apple and Microsoft market caps of more than $3 trillion, and a pervasive metaverse, particularly after Apple releases its much-anticipated...

Summer 2021 is expected to be one of the hottest on record, with all-time high temperatures in dozens of Western cities. The extreme heat...

President Joe Biden sat down with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos for a wide-ranging interview Tuesday in which he said his message to migrants was...

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...

The first pieces of meteorite to be found in the UK for three decades have been discovered in a village in the Cotswolds. Scientists have...

The US Food and Drug Administration announced on Thursday that it will "work toward issuing proposed product standards within the next year" to ban...

Toyota Motor Corp's research arm announced the acquisition of Carmera, a provider of maps and data for driverless vehicles based in the United States,...

The criminal tax fraud trial of Donald J. Trump's family business could come down to three uninteresting words: "on behalf of." Despite all the...

The Los Angeles Lakers smothered the Phoenix Suns with sticky defense all season, winning 109-95 on Thursday night at Staples Center and taking a...

The tribal officials' van deviated from the coastal highway, away from the Pacific, and onto a dirt path shaded by cedar and spruce trees....

Reported details have emerged painting a bloody scene outside a Miami strip club that left Houston Rockets guard Sterling Brown hospitalized early Monday. The Houston...

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

According to Emin Gün Sirer, the founder of Avalanche, Bitcoin will eventually be outpaced by other coins as their faster, cheaper networks digitize more...

Onstage at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, Dave Chappelle was assaulted by a man who ran up and tackled the...

In response to remarks he made in an interview with the prestigious Jesuit magazine America, Russia has accused Pope Francis of lying and engaging...

As winter approaches, hospitals across Colorado are dealing with a resurgence of COVID-19, with an influx of patients flooding into health-care facilities. Front-line workers...

Cracking down on Big Tech is a rare bipartisan desire, but a nearly 19-hour debate session in the House that lasted into Thursday morning...

When David Lipson smelled the smoke, he was sitting in his dining room on the phone with his son. He ran out of his...