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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...

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III met with reporters nearly 48 hours after leaving Washington on what...

Despite a new executive order from Governor Glenn Youngkin, school districts responsible for hundreds of Virginia schools have indicated that mask mandates will continue. As...

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...

Former President Donald Trump recently compared gender and pronoun education to "child abuse." Florida Governor Ron DeSantis accused his critics of "sexualizing kindergarten children." And South...

Here's a line from Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., that you can expect to hear in almost every ad for a Democratic Senate candidate between...

Prince Harry and Prince William shared personal tributes on Monday to their grandfather Prince Philip, who died Friday at the age of 99. The...

A Connecticut jury awarded nearly $1 billion in damages to 15 plaintiffs who claimed Alex Jones defamed them when he said the 2012 Sandy...

The death of a 12-year-old girl whose body was discovered inside a plastic trunk has left France "profoundly shaken," prompting accusations that far-right lawmakers...

By the end of the year, Lyft customers in Miami will be able to hail a robotaxi from Argo AI, an AV startup backed...

In some references, the surname of West Virginia's attorney general was misspelled in an earlier version of this article. Patrick Morrisey, not Morrissey, is...

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

On Wednesday Facebook made a stirring decision to block certain groups of Australians from sharing news. Fire and emergency services, non-profit organizations and state...

Democrats, according to DeSantis, are attempting to 'drive dissension' among Republicans by spreading a false narrative about his relationship with Trump. Republicans, including Republican Florida...

Apple has been under major scrutiny in both legal and PR fronts. Major players such as Facebook, Spotify and Epic games do not agree...

Since it was approved for use, the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine has been marketed with one major advantage over its competitors: it only...

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

According to a report released on Tuesday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of cryptocurrency goliath FTX, defrauded...

Vice President Kamala Harris defended her job performance in an exclusive interview with "Good Morning America" Co-Anchor George Stephanopoulos, insisting that she and President...

According to reports, Chinese-owned TikTok is working feverishly to transfer all data it has on US users to the US and put an American...

The LA County Sheriff’s Department made several critical decisions in the investigation of Tiger Wood’s devastating crash that were favorable to the golfing legend —...

Long-time county clerk Sam Merlino decided to leave her job after officials in Nye County, Nevada, accepted a pitch from a Republican nominee for...

Boston's sky is falling, as the Red Sox are 6-15 in July and have been outscored by 70 runs in those 21 games. The Red...

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...

On Sunday, a state-run media outlet in China warned of "severe" military and economic repercussions for Taiwan if Washington allows the self-ruled island to...

United got off to the worst possible start, with goals from Mario Pasalic and Merih Demiral giving the visiting Italians a 2-0 lead inside...

The major U.S. stock indexes opened sharply lower on Monday as investors weighed a slew of risks, including a possible shift in Federal Reserve...

Health-care workers overwhelmingly supported Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, but they are dissatisfied with how he has handled the pandemic since then. In...

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...

The Federal Aviation Administration fined a DFW International Airport passenger $23,000 for allegedly striking an American Airlines flight attendant after becoming enraged that her...

During her closely watched tour this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met the leaders of Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan — but not the president...

The Prime Minister has bowed to ministerial pressure to resign as Tory leader, but he intends to stay in No. 10 until the party...

Vladimir Putin's first interview with an American television news outlet in three years was a big hit for Russia's networks, perhaps strategically so. The Russian...

On Wednesday, Republicans laid the blame for their defeat in the Georgia U.S. Senate runoff election squarely at the feet of former President Donald...

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

The polio virus was discovered in New York City's wastewater, indicating that the disease, which had not been seen in the United States in...

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

Sarah Palin's bid for the U.S. House of Representatives, Sen. Lisa Murkowski's bid to keep her Senate seat, and Donald Trump's influence on both...

The world leader who has had the most frequent conversations with Vice President Kamala Harris about US immigration policy describes her as a straight-talking,...

The Olympic torch arrived in Beijing on Wednesday, kicking off the countdown to the Winter Games, which will be held in the shadow of...

Several powerful tornadoes tore through northern Alabama on Thursday, killing at least five people, injuring dozens of others and destroying entire neighborhoods. The five confirmed...

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...

Despite the generally broad legal protections for social networks, Snap can be sued over a Snapchat speed filter that allegedly encouraged reckless driving. The...

A co-founder of the global scheme to provide vaccines for poor people said Thursday India was delaying exports of much-needed jabs, as EU leaders...

Many compared the battle between a scrappy group of former and current warehouse workers on Staten Island, New York, and Amazon in a union...

Nadine Ebri's algebra classes are not like the ones you probably took in school. Equations are practiced by students through singing, dancing, and drawing. Their...

Several Chinese suppliers to major tech companies and processor manufacturers such as Apple, Intel, Nvidia, and Tesla are having their power cut off for...

On Tuesday, a California libertarian group filed a legal challenge to President Joe Biden's plan to cancel student debt, calling it an illegal overreach...

Immigration enforcement arrests in the United States have dropped dramatically in the last year as the Biden administration shifted its enforcement priorities to focus...

Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth and a leading figure in the British royal family for almost seven decades, has died aged 99,...

Elizabeth Walsh, a mother of three elementary school-aged children in Washington, D.C., is determined not to become one of those wealthy white families that...

Omicron is fading, as are Americans' concerns about COVID-19. According to a new poll, as the number of coronavirus pandemic cases, hospitalizations, and deaths continues...

The word "Democrat" was conspicuously absent from a recent news release by Colorado congressional candidate Adam Frisch. Frisch, a former city councilman from the posh,...

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...

"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...

Democrats in the United States Congress suffered a crushing defeat in their effort to pass a major election reform bill, but they say they...

Ukrainian forces said they attacked another Russian-occupied Kherson base as leaders from Turkey and the United Nations were set to meet with President Volodymyr...

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...

Ukrainians are once again concerned about the fate of a nuclear power plant in a country that was the site of the world's worst...

They are the rare gun laws that attract bipartisan agreement — so-called red flag laws, which allow the authorities to temporarily take away guns...

After a liquidity crisis at the cryptocurrency group prompted intervention from regulators around the world, FTX has filed for bankruptcy in the United States,...

A new study discovered that gas stoves contribute more to global warming than previously thought due to constant tiny methane leaks while they are...

Naomi Osaka will not win an Olympic medal on home soil after being defeated 6-1, 6-4 by Markéta Vondrouová of the Czech Republic in...

For most original Medicare enrollment includes automatic enrollment at the time of turning 65. Medicare Advantage enrollment varies depending on the plan chosen. The...

West Virginia will receive $99 million as part of a settlement with Johnson & Johnson's subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. over the drugmaker's role in...

In an effort to assist people who, according to one signer, have been "steamrolled" by draconian COVID-19 guidelines, a letter from prominent medical professionals...

Denise Forcer would become stressed just by opening her closet door for months. The suffocation of her belongings reminded her that she didn't know...

If a federal judge rules against a Biden administration policy, the judge's courtroom is almost certainly in Texas. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and conservative...

Paola Bezzon assumed her sniffles in December were just a seasonal cold until a serology test revealed coronavirus antibodies in her blood months later. Bezzon,...

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

The rate at which the world’s forests are being destroyed increased sharply last year, with at least 42,000 sq km of tree cover lost...

Exhausted recruiters are putting everything on the table a year after the United States began seeing record turnover. With nearly 48 million people quitting their...

Some of the world's most protected forests are emitting more carbon than they absorb, owing to factors such as logging and wildfires, according to...

A new court filing claims that an attorney who has been described as the district attorney's "legal advisor" was behind a pair of mysterious...

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

Despite the fact that two other railroad unions rejected their agreements last month, another of the 12 railroad unions narrowly approved their deal with...

The Justice Department will ask the United States Supreme Court on Wednesday to reinstate the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, despite...

An Oklahoma judge temporarily blocked the implementation of two new anti-abortion laws that go into effect next month, including one that is similar to...

The Texas primaries on Tuesday will provide the first pieces of the puzzle that will be the 2022 midterm elections. The ideological strength of the...

According to a government report, colleges are hiding from applicants their skyrocketing tuition costs as the Biden administration aims to give out billions in...