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A thousand-year-old poem has just cost Chinese delivery giant Meituan tens of billions of dollars in market value, rattling an already tense tech industry....

Nepal underestimated its second wave of Covid-19 infections and needs to ramp up its response, Nepali billionaire Binod Chaudhary said last week. He also...

The only people at school who knew the truth about Jeremiah Armstead’s home life were his basketball coaches. Armstead, 18, was exhausted from sleeping in...

"Tuvalu is sinking," Finance Minister Seve Paeniu declares of his island nation during an interview with Yahoo News at the United Nations Climate Change...

Last summer, the Pacific Northwest of the United States was experiencing a record-breaking heat wave when a woman in her 70s was wheeled into...

Brown, Ketanji Jackson does not have the typical background of a US Supreme Court justice. Not just because she's a woman of African-American descent. While many...

Joe Biden began his presidency with a promise to advance equity, which entails favoring certain races and ethnicities over others in order to reduce...

A new coalition of small business groups on Tuesday launched a campaign for tougher US antitrust enforcement, specifically calling for the breakup of online...

The Pentagon is reconsidering its arsenal in light of the intense firefight over Ukraine. Would the United States have enough ammunition to fight if...

Women's health clinics in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and elsewhere are reporting an influx of out-of-state patients from Texas seeking abortions and other services, just weeks...

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

Republican J.R. Majewski's campaign for a competitive Ohio congressional seat has revolved around his background as an Air Force veteran. But one of the...

A family in Myanmar has said that government security forces fatally shot a 7-year-old girl as she ran to her father — the youngest...

Alex Schachter, a 14-year-old marching band member who was killed in the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, would have graduated this year from Marjory Stoneman...

As Russia's invasion continues, Ukrainian officials and two Republican members of Congress have pushed for the US to impose a no-fly zone, but doing...

Women who use marijuana during pregnancy are putting their babies at risk, a study published Thursday finds. Babies born to women who were heavy cannabis users...

The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it will cancel three planned oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's...

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

Employers have turned to an often-overlooked pool of talent in the current tight labor market: applicants with criminal records. According to a recent Indeed Hiring...

The family of Daunte Wright gathered around his white coffin draped in red roses Wednesday, taking in one of the last times they would...

There has been a recent surge of parents choosing to enroll their kids in private schools due to the lack of face-to-face contact in...

Senate Democrats scrambled on Thursday to rally behind a broad election reform bill ahead of a vote next week, with a key member of...

General Amirali Hajizadeh, commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards aerospace unit, claimed on Thursday that the country has developed a hypersonic missile capable of penetrating...

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

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...

With only one case of paralytic polio found in Rockland County, New York, and the virus found in wastewater samples from two counties in...

For the first time, Brazilians representing their country at the Olympics will undergo anti-racism training, in a bid to deal with a deep-rooted problem...

Colin Powell, the former US Secretary of State, died on Monday as a result of Covid-19 complications. His family stated that he had received...

According to federal data released Wednesday, more Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021 than in any previous year, a grim milestone in an...

Home sales are slowing as buyers struggle to find homes within their price range. The number of existing home sales has fallen for three months...

China signaled on Monday that it is not interested in supplying weapons to Russia for use in Ukraine, where President Vladimir Putin's brutal military...

Following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, former Vice President Mike Pence says abortion should be banned nationwide and is planning...

Ah yes, Venice Beach in California: synonymous with sun, surf, palm trees and, now, homeless people. In this Los Angeles-area town that has long drawn...

Tens of thousands of homes and businesses lost power as a preliminary magnitude 6.4 earthquake shook Northern California early on Tuesday morning, startling locals...

Gigi Sohn, President Joe Biden's choice to fill the vacant seat on the five-member Federal Communications Commission, was scheduled to be voted on Wednesday...

According to local media, residents in most Simferopol districts have had running water for 18 hours a day since the end of April. That's...

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...

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 group of Republican senators has written to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to ask why a Christian organization was initially denied tax-exempt status. The...

In recent months, President Biden has spent hours speaking with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, and other foreign leaders...

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

Many people purchase homeowners insurance to provide coverage in the event that they suffer a loss of their home or the contents therein. Most...

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

Republican Robin Vos, Wisconsin's longest-serving Assembly speaker, has presided over efforts to restrict abortions, weaken unions, expand gun rights, and oppose COVID-19 mandates. Despite...

Last week, Joe Biden introduced a $1.9 trillion stimulus as an ambitious plan to take on the current economic crisis. Most economists note, however,...

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

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

The Olympic trajectory that had Simone Biles on track for multiple gold medals has shifted from all but certain to, at best, hazy. Biles withdrew...

Monday morning, Louisianans began assessing the damage caused by Hurricane Ida, as power remained out for more than 1 million customers and officials urged...

Microsoft hopes to push clean energy grids with a new strategy for purchasing renewable energy. The tech behemoth is now concentrating on making a...

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...

Travis Scott speaks out in his first interview since the Astroworld music festival tragedy, which claimed the lives of ten people. In an hour-long sit-down...

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...

As a Georgia grand jury investigates Donald Trump's behavior following his election loss in 2020, the former president's team has turned to one of...

Abbott and the FDA were notified of a whistleblower complaint about Abbott's Sturgis infant formula plant as early as February 2021. According to sources familiar...

Martin Langesfeld recalls exactly where he was and what he was doing on June 24, 2021. "I was out with friends about 1:20 a.m.," Langesfeld...

A Norfolk, Nebraska, mother and daughter are facing criminal charges in connection with an alleged self-managed abortion earlier this year. It's a scenario that...

Robert E. Lee High School in Montgomery, Alabama, opened shortly after the US Supreme Court ordered school desegregation in 1954. Brown vs. Board of Education...

On the morning of Election Day, Republican officials and candidates exuded confidence that their party would win majorities in both houses of Congress, effectively...

The design of a billionaire donor for a mega-dorm that would house UC Santa Barbara students in mostly windowless rooms has sparked widespread criticism...

Household income increased at a record rate of 21.1 percent in March, as federal stimulus checks fueled an economic recovery that is expected to...

The prospect of inflation reaching 12% this autumn is growing after higher fuel and food prices pushed the official measure of the cost of...

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...

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...

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

Prejudice and discrimination based on age is widespread around the world, affecting millions of older and younger people trying to work and get health...

For the last seven weeks, workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, have been voting by mail on whether to unionize. Their ballots...

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

According to researchers, a massive online propaganda campaign promoting pro-China messaging has been attempting to influence American voters. This week, two companies that study large-scale...

The shaggy dog who greets Eilyn after school is one of the 8-year-few old's familiar comforts in her new life. When her parents boarded a...

According to analysts, a recently approved Chinese tax could deal a severe economic blow to the Nicolás Maduro regime by nearly doubling the cost...

According to reports, Prince Harry will not be permitted to wear a military uniform during Queen Elizabeth's state funeral, as only working members of...

Brittney Griner, the detained American basketball star, pleaded guilty to drug charges in a court near Moscow on Thursday, according to her lawyer. "I'd like...

Parents in the North Clackamas School District in Oregon are furious about the board's decision to go online, especially in light of the controversy...

In 1995, when Chris Noble was 5 years old and learning how to manage his Type 1 diabetes with the help of his parents...

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...

A new Senate panel's bipartisan investigation claims that one of the country's largest military housing companies put military families' health and safety at risk,...

The search for dozens of people still missing five days after the deadliest storm to hit South Africa's coastal city of Durban in living...

It is unclear whether Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a final decision on an invasion of Ukraine, but he is continuing to build...

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...