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Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, the European Union moved to block RT and Sputnik, two of the Kremlin's primary channels for disseminating...

Approximately 1,000 Air National Guard troops assigned to space missions are experiencing identity crisis. Their units, torn between the Air Force, where they have traditionally...

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...

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

The Biden administration emphasized on Monday the severity of the economic sanctions imposed on Russia over the weekend, in which the US and its...

Ernest Ray worked for a company that made compressors in southwest Virginia for 26 years, in a physically demanding job that included night shifts...

Beginning November, the Biden administration will lift travel restrictions on foreigners who have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, reopening the country to thousands...

According to court documents obtained by Law&Crime, the man accused of a racist attack on a Buffalo, New York grocery store was charged with...

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...

Tesla owners can purchase the company's "full self-driving" software for $10,000, but they may have to give up their privacy in the process. According to...

An employee was fired after stealing $15,000 in chips during an investigation into cheating allegations in the world of high-stakes poker. The latest development in...

They are some of the top athletes in the world in their respective sports – elite in their training, meticulous in the preparation, the best...

One provision in the Inflation Reduction Act has sparked the most debate in certain corners of the internet in the weeks since its passage:...

President Biden traveled to California for the second time in less than three weeks on Thursday, hoping to boost Democratic House members whose reelection...

For the first time, the United States has been added to an annual list of "backsliding" democracies, according to the International IDEA think-tank, citing...

Pride parades began Sunday in New York City and across the country, with glittering confetti, cheering crowds, fluttering rainbow flags, and newfound fears about...

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...

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...

A Michigan mother who is suing her children's school district for failing to provide curriculum for a "Ethnic and Gender Studies" class believes that...

Stacey Abrams, Georgia's gubernatorial candidate, spoke at the Atlanta church of a pastor who previously told a Baltimore congregation to make gay people "uncomfortable...

Arkansas and other Southern states have emerged as critical battlegrounds in state and local officials' efforts to persuade enough unvaccinated Americans to get Covid-19...

Not every top prospect is an Adley Rutschman or Gunnar Henderson, soaring to the majors and immediately boosting his organization's playoff chances. Some are like...

Authorities seized a helicopter and an airplane belonging to Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk and his family and turned them over to the Armed Forces. The...

Former Vice President Mike Pence has remained at the center of speculation about his plans for the 2024 presidential election, and despite the fact...

So what is earthquake insurance and how does it work? Does homeowners, renters coverage cover earthquakes? What does earthquake coverage cover? Earthquakes happen when there...

Maricopa County officials on Wednesday refuted nearly every claim in an error-riddled report commissioned by Arizona Senate Republicans on the 2020 election that cast...

According to officials, 46 people were found dead and 16 others were taken to hospitals Monday after a tractor-trailer carrying suspected migrants was discovered...

The murder trial of a man accused of killing 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, in 2019 has devolved into a...

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...

Following coverage on Fox News Digital, a nonprofit organization in North Carolina that faced local backlash for raffling off a rifle to raise money...

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes' fraud conviction could teach Silicon Valley's culture of hubris and hype some valuable lessons. On Monday, Holmes was found guilty...

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

Former employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before Congress last week that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg owns 55 percent of the company's voting stock. This...

Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has a lot more on his mind these days than the sport. For more than a decade, he's been focused on...

Richard Metzler purchased automation equipment as part of a plan to more than double the volume of his small parcel delivery company this holiday...

According to newly released confidential filings submitted by his accountants to the hotel's landlord, the General Services Administration, former President Donald Trump's luxury hotel...

On July 20, billionaire Amazon cofounder Jeff Bezos went into space for a brief period of time in a rocket built by his rocket...

To ensure that the World Cup is advantageous to the Iranian regime, Qatar has been working with Iran to control which media outlets cover...

Robert Lewandowski can reach another milestone Saturday in his quest to better Gerd Mueller's all-time record of 40 goals in a Bundesliga season. The Bayern...

Customers no longer have to wait in line to purchase a cupcake from a Sprinkles bakery. Instead, they enter an order into a tablet,...

Virginia Republicans chose not to support Amanda Chase, a self-described "Trump in heels," in her bid to defeat Democrats for the governor's seat in...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday, defying Beijing's stern warnings against a visit that the Communist Party of China regards as...

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

The government got a judge to authorize the effort to remove malicious code from the Exchange Server hack. Early this year, a group of hackers...

A new variant of the coronavirus responsible for Covid-19 has been identified in Botswana and South Africa, where it has been linked to a...

The Israeli military pounded the Gaza Strip again early Monday, a day after dozens of Palestinians were killed in Israeli air raids, despite mounting...

According to a report, funeral homes in Uvalde, Texas, refused to handle services for accused Robb Elementary School shooter 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, forcing the...

Every year, Walmart illegally dumps more than 1 million batteries, aerosol cans of insecticides and other products, toxic cleaning supplies, electronic waste, latex paints,...

Russia's war on Ukraine has already changed European security after only one week, with the most serious fighting almost certainly yet to come. Vladimir Putin's...

Most people know him for his 1996 sing-along hit "I Believe I Can Fly," which became an inspirational anthem played at school graduations, weddings,...

Women who have accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual assault are suing the banks, alleging that they enabled Epstein's alleged sex-trafficking operation and disregarded warning...

Officials closed beaches in Southern California from Orange to Los Angeles counties over the holiday weekend after up to 7 million gallons of untreated...

Shemah Crosby remembers her grandmother Lena spending time with her hand crafting Choctaw Indian traditional dresses, sowing elaborate appliques onto colorful fabrics. When her "pokni,"...

Police in western Michigan have released bodycam footage of officers handcuffing a real estate agent, his client, and the man's 15-year-old son after a...

According to police, a Florida man was arrested after a viral video showed him dumping 50 balloons from a boat into the ocean following...

No longer a working member of the royal family, Prince Harry has a new job: executive at a Silicon Valley startup. The Duke of...

The company behind the Nokia mobile brand refreshed its smartphone lineup on Thursday with a slew of new budget models, as it struggles to...

The Russian campaign has been disrupted and derailed by stubborn Ukrainian resistance — and in the last few days by agile Ukrainian counterattacks on...

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

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

Trucks are being held up by driver testing. Container rates are rising as ships wait for long periods of time at ports. Warehouses are...

President Joe Biden delivered remarks from the White House on Thursday, detailing a dramatic US raid overnight in Syria that he claimed killed the...

Ray Dailo, an investor, looks in the rearview mirror to see what's ahead. If you understand this paradox, you probably agree with the historical...

Garnell Whitfield is still traumatized by the loss of his mother to racist violence in a Buffalo supermarket. Whitfield claims that the subsequent mass shootings,...

A senior administration official said Monday that tens of thousands of Afghans who applied for Special Immigrant Visas (SIV) are still being processed nearly...

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...

Six cryptocurrency users are suing the US Treasury Department for blacklisting Tornado Cash last month, claiming the department's sanctions watchdog overstepped its authority by...

Nvidia has been a top investment this year, with share prices of the graphics card specialist skyrocketing nearly 133 percent in 2021 due to...

Russia this week began huge military exercises in Crimea and along the border with Ukraine, using more than 100,000 troops- backed by heavy armor,...

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 FBI has the authority right now to access privately owned computers without their owners’ knowledge or consent, and to delete software. It’s part...

President-elect Joe Biden has reportedly grown alarmingly frustrated with theteam leading the vaccination attempts across the United States. Biden had originally stated that he...

Despite authorities dismissing a vague and viral TikTok trend warning of nationwide school violence on Friday as non-credible, widespread school closures, stretched law enforcement...

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...

Police on Friday were seeking a motive and working to identify the gunman and eight victims in a mass shooting at a FedEx facility late Thursday. Police...

The Kremlin said Monday that there were no concrete plans for a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Joe Biden...

Next month in Budapest, America's most prominent conservative gathering, founded on ideals of personal liberty and limited government, will honor a European leader accused...

If legislation to establish an independent commission fails in the Senate, key Democratic chairmen in both chambers of Congress are reluctant to launch committee...

According to two government officials, the Biden administration is gradually implementing new changes that would increase the speed with which the US government evaluates...

An unusual security breach of an election system in a rural Colorado county has triggered a criminal investigation and prompted state authorities to suspend...