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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...

The Summer Olympics are just around the corner and, for the first time since 2000, Jamaican sprinting superstar Usain Bolt won't be on the track. It's...

At least 69 people have died in the Vancouver area of Canada as a result of a record-breaking heat wave that has engulfed the...

More than a million Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine doses held in Israel and set to expire at the end of July may be discarded after attempts...

Human bodies continue to emerge as the water level of the nation's largest man-made reservoir recedes due to drought. Human remains have been discovered in...

According to official counts, more people have died from Covid-19 this year than in all of 2020, highlighting how the global pandemic is far...

After a federal investigation revealed that it was punishing Black students harsher than White students for similar behavior, a California school district has pledged...

After a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the southwestern part of the island Saturday, crumbling homes, destroying roads, and killing over 2,000 people, the United States...

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

The Justice Department has asked a special master to reject former President Donald J. Trump's claims that he owns a variety of documents seized...

New York City will launch the nation's largest and most comprehensive workforce development program for at-risk LGBTQ youth this summer. NYC Unity Works, a $2.6...

A federal judge has denied President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani's request for the return of a trove of digital information seized by the...

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

As the country grapples with both vaccine hesitancy and a lack of supplies, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to arrest anyone who refuses...

Pfizer reported that earnings and sales more than doubled in the most recent quarter, and it raised its full-year outlook, owing largely to its...

According to a news release from the New York Police Department, a man was arrested Saturday morning after allegedly pushing a woman in front...

Colonial Pipeline's CEO has publicly admitted to paying off the DarkSide ransomware gang, providing the first look at how the largest cyberattack on US...

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

The Biden administration, like many previous US administrations, intended a foreign policy "pivot" toward China and Asia. Instead, Washington was confronted with a war...

The Census Bureau is working to restore trust in the numbers gathered during the 2020 census by addressing issues caused by the unprecedented challenges...

According to Ukrainian authorities, their forces targeted a Russian ammunition depot in southern Ukraine overnight, resulting in a massive explosion captured on social media. According...

Former NFL coach Urban Meyer attended former President Donald Trump's annual Super Bowl party on Sunday night, where guests dined on a game-day menu...

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

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced inflation adjustments for the tax year 2023, despite the fact that inflation rates are at their highest in...

When neurosurgeon Matthew S. Schrag learned that the Food and Drug Administration had approved a controversial Alzheimer's drug, he was taken aback. In his...

A Christchurch widow who witnessed the mosque attacks plans on leaving New Zealand after her daughter became a target of hate crime and now...

According to a survey of participants published on Wednesday, the majority of companies participating in a four-day workweek pilot program in the United Kingdom...

Scientists claim to have developed a new technology that can remove nearly all of the salt from seawater, potentially resolving one of the world's...

The White House prepared for harsh congressional inquiries as soon as President Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal started to go wrong, with chaos at Kabul's airport,...

This week, President Joe Biden signaled his intent to reconnect and strengthen ties with U.S. allies across the pond in Europe and resume a...

Beech-Nut Nutrition voluntarily recalled an infant rice cereal on Tuesday because it contained more arsenic than the US Food and Drug Administration's limit of...

A new contentious bill in the Oklahoma state legislature would limit how slavery is taught in schools and prohibit teaching that "one race is...

"Be really afraid right now," says Alston Green, 71, to LGBTQ people, especially the young. Don Bell is concerned that "all of our work over...

What could possibly be superior to a single, extensive high-speed rail network? Three or four that are in competition with one another appear to...

Germany held a national memorial service on Sunday for its nearly 80,000 victims of the coronavirus pandemic, with the president urging the country to...

Twitter saw an increase in daily users but narrowly missed revenue expectations in the last three months of 2021, when a new CEO took...

President Biden's student loan forgiveness program has been halted by a federal judge in Texas, putting the administration's plan to forgive up to $20,000...

  Twitter is working to  expand their use of labels in identifying official government accounts and state-affiliated media in attempts to boost transparency. Twitter has...

At a time when conservatives are campaigning against teaching about systemic racism in the United States, the Texas Senate has moved to preserve evidence...

According to people familiar with the matter, the indictment of a far-right internet activist on charges of interfering with the 2016 U.S. election reflects...

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...

Because times are tough, Democrats should resist the urge to tell voters that everything is fine. According to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in a...

The CIA's No. 2 official made it clear in a recent closed-door meeting with leaders of the agency's counterterrorism center that fighting al-Qaida and...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky travelled to the country's eastern frontline on Thursday, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Vladimir Putin to reduce Russia's troop...

The semiconductor chip shortage is old news, but when the second-largest public company in U.S. stock market history says it just lost $6 billion...

According to UN officials, approximately 14 million Ukrainians have been displaced from their homes, including more than six million who have fled the country,...

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

Tesla's Chinese sales last month were significantly lower than expected. Although Tesla does not report monthly sales or regional revenue, the China Passenger Car...

Republicans issued a stern warning to President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats on Tuesday: change the Senate rules at your own risk. Mr. Biden endorsed...

According to his cousin, the teen who died last week after falling from an amusement park ride in Florida was turned away from two...

A federal judge suggested Monday that the Biden administration was engaging in legal "gamesmanship" in order to resurrect a pandemic-related eviction ban, despite the...

Deaths in the Brazilian city of Serrana have decreased by 95 percent since all adult residents were offered a trial Sinovac vaccine. In addition to...

The sight was breathtaking. Last weekend, as COVID-19 cases soared in the United States, the city's downtown was a sea of mostly unmasked humanity...

According to reports, Mitch McConnell is opposed to extending the free school lunch program. This comes as Congress considers what to include in the next...

The official seal of Atlanta depicts a phoenix rising from the ashes of the Civil War. What it doesn't show is that Atlanta was...

A new study of blood samples from 24,000 Americans taken early last year is the latest and largest to suggest that the new coronavirus...

Derek Chauvin invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to testify on Thursday and the defense rested its case as the trial of George Floyd's...

A ring of fire on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico caused by a ruptured gas pipeline has renewed concern about the state...

The clock is ticking on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's tenure, but it is moving too slowly for some critics who are concerned about...

According to research released Monday, in nearly two dozen U.S. metropolitan areas, younger women have closed the pay gap or are outpacing their male...

With his five-year search for the perfect notebook, a veteran tech CEO has added to Silicon Valley's growing list of idiosyncratic productivity hacks. David Selinger...

An Ivy League biology professor is warning that critical race theory curricula are erasing the meaning, if not the existence, of "objective truth" from...

Few pipe organs in the world have a nickname, a feminine pronoun, and a Facebook fan page. The Hazel Wright organ, affectionately known as "Hazel"...

The delay in confirming President Biden's nominees for positions at the State Department and USAID has already harmed our national security. That is easier...

According to a senior US official, the Biden administration will stop using a humanitarian process known as parole to admit at-risk Afghans next month...

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

It is time for President Joe Biden to use one of the countermeasures to Russia's military threat along the Ukraine border that he has...

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...

On Monday, hundreds of would-be rescuers laboriously dug through a mountain of crushed concrete, mangled steel, and smashed belongings as officials vowed to continue...

Britain's prime minister accused China of "gross rights violations" against the Muslim Uyghur minority Friday after Beijing aimed sanctions at UK lawmakers and lobby...

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...

Authorities said a magnitude 6 earthquake jolted both sides of the California-Nevada border, tossed boulders onto a major highway, and was felt as far...

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...

The owner and CEO of MyPillow, Mike Lindell, was banned from Twitter on Monday night based on a new policy that the social media...

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

Stuart Broad appears set to return for the fourth Ashes Test in Sydney on Wednesday, after recently expressing his displeasure with England's failed tour,...

Val Demings has repeatedly chastised Republican Sen. Marco Rubio for failing to vote on a broad spending bill last week that would have allocated...

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

Families of nine Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre victims reached a $73 million settlement with the manufacturer of the gun used in the deadly...

In 2021, three bright and driven women with ground-breaking ideas left significant – if very different – imprints on the beleaguered tech industry. Frances Haugen,...