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President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Sunday directing the federal government to promote voting access in a move meant to commemorate the...

The Biden administration acted quickly after a primary gasoline pipeline was compromised by a cyberattack, realizing that the situation posed a number of political...

With historic abortion arguments behind them, the justices will soon begin the work of crafting a decision that could significantly limit abortion rights in...

The aviation industry appears to have recovered from the worst of the coronavirus crisis, but Boeing's to-do list remains lengthy following a rocky start...

When it comes time to start comparing car insurance prices and rates, there are two primary ways to do so. You could use an...

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

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...

25th of September, 2001 It's a date that many Michael Jordan fans don't believe exists. Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of Michael Jordan's return from...

For years, Kate and Meghan's relationship has been the subject of speculation, particularly after reports surfaced claiming they had a falling out over the...

A person familiar with the meeting confirmed that President Biden met with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Joe Manchin in Delaware on...

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

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...

Amazon installed a slew of metal lockers outside a 2019 Fresno, California, gas station convenience store so customers who didn't want packages delivered directly...

Life couldn't have been better for the New York Yankees when they awoke in the Bay Area on August 28. They'd just won their...

When the United States opened trade relations with communist China, we were promised great things. Free trade, we were told, would expose the Middle Kingdom...

Paul Rusesabagina, the former hotelier who inspired the acclaimed 2004 film "Hotel Rwanda," claims he was tortured for several days by Rwandan authorities at...

South Africa, with its rolling vineyards, abundant big game, the iconic Table Mountain, endless sandy beaches, and vast cultural riches, would have expected to...

Su Hua, the founder of a Chinese startup called Kuaishou Technology, was on the verge of closing the biggest deal of his career in...

According to two organizations involved in the effort, more than 100 US citizens and green card holders, as well as nine special immigrant visa...

According to the federal Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary, the number of job openings in August fell short of the record highs set...

A growing number of states are implementing digital credentials known as vaccine passports, a project that the Biden administration signaled this spring that it...

The government announced on Monday that all adults in the United Kingdom will be able to get their booster Covid-19 vaccine doses three months...

Thousands of people have reportedly fled across the border from Myanmar into neighboring Thailand after the bloodiest weekend the country has seen since the February 1...

On Sunday night, Texas Democrats staged a dramatic, last-ditch walkout in the state House of Representatives to prevent the passage of one of the...

The Biden administration backtracked on a contentious proposal to direct the IRS to collect additional data on every bank account with more than $600...

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

The International Monetary Fund maintained its 6 percent global growth forecast for 2021 on Tuesday, raising expectations for the United States and other wealthy...

Britney Spears’ lawyer plans to file a petition to make the singer's current "care manager" and temporary conservator, Jodi Montgomery, a permanent one, the singer's...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) new guidance has thrown Congress into disarray and sparked debate over a central question: to mask...

Heavy-armed commandos kidnapped the princess on a yacht in the Indian Ocean. Despite her pleas, which were confirmed by two eyewitnesses aboard the US-flagged yacht...

Since his days on the campaign trail, President Biden has tried to cast himself as diametrically opposed to President Donald Trump when it comes...

The railroad system of the United States is being bolstered by its northern neighbor. The Rocky Mountaineer, one of Western Canada's most-decorated luxury scenic train...

Twins may be more common today than at any time in history, according to the first comprehensive survey of twin births around the world. Researchers...

A third of all the world's man-made greenhouse gas emissions are linked to food, according to new global research that tracked produce from field...

An academic study published today discovered that government counts of the devastation caused by coronavirus among the most vulnerable elderly likely missed more than...

The Biden administration's new $500 million military contract with Saudi Arabia, critics claim, goes against the spirit of the White House's public policy of...

Donald Dell, one of the Association of Tennis Professionals' (ATP) founders, says he supports Novak Djokovic's breakaway player's organization, but that the two organizations...

Mark Golding, who took over as People's National Party (PNP) premier in November 2020, described the measure as critical, especially in light of the...

Before the start of the 2020-2021 NBA season, Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, directed his team to stop playing the national anthem...

Developing nations are faced with the gradual erosion of their foreign trade tax revenues, which subsequently reduces their overall tax income. In light of...

President Donald Trump contracted COVID-19 back in October of 2020 and apparently was much sicker than he acknowledged at the time. He had extremely...

Lilibet is a reference to Queen Elizabeth's childhood, when she struggled to pronounce her own name. "Lilibet is my pride; Margaret is my joy,"...

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...

Michelle Wu was sworn in as Boston's mayor on Tuesday, becoming the city's first woman and first person of color to hold the position. Kim...

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

There's a lot going on at the end of Netflix's battle royale thriller Squid Game, which is a cross between Bong Joon-Oscar-winning ho's film...

President-elect Joe Biden is promising that his climate agenda will begin in his first few days as president to combat the climate crisis and...

On Wednesday last week, Google's Fiona Cicconi wrote to company employees. She announced that Google was bringing forward its timetable of moving people back...

Colonial Pipeline's CEO faced tough questions from lawmakers Tuesday about his company's ransomware attack, which caused a major disruption in the nation's fuel supply...

Patients no longer need to travel to doctors' offices for detailed heart rate or blood pressure readings, as consumer tech giants produce increasingly sophisticated...

Activists in Mexico have applauded a Supreme Court decision to decriminalize abortion, claiming that it will put an end to the legal prosecution of...

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

Brazil’s rampant coronavirus outbreak has become a global threat that risks spawning new and even more lethal variants, one of the South American country’s...

It seems that SpaceX has missed the landing of the first-stage booster,  Falcon 9 for the first time in a year. It can be...

Voters in the city rejected a ballot measure to overhaul policing that was drafted amid national outrage over the death of George Floyd by...

Today, the average senior on Social Security receives $1,543 per month. When combined with withdrawals from a retirement plan or ongoing pension payments, that...

Intelligence manifests itself in a variety of ways. Do you remember the IQ test? It is used to calculate a person's intelligence quotient. It...

The Alaska State Senate has suspended a lawmaker for four months after she was barred from flying to the state capital on the state's...

Nathalie Emmanuel explains where she draws the line when it comes to nudity on screen. Emmanuel, who played Missandei on HBO's "Game of Thrones" for...

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday that the Justice Department is launching a "pattern or practice" investigation into the Minneapolis police department. "Today, I am...

A Brussels court has ruled that Belgium's failure to meet climate targets is a violation of human rights, in the latest legal victory against...

Economic statistics rarely add to the sense of drama that lurks beneath the headlines. The Taliban's new stash of American weapons could be an...

Marine Cpl. Whitney McHaffie refused to wear a mask and refuses to be vaccinated against COVID-19. She was discharged from the military a month after...

Did you know that nearly 60% of the universe consists of dark matter that remains unseen by us? This is a much lesser known...

American democracy is in rapid decline, India is no longer a free country, and at most 20 percent of the world’s population lives in...

When the universe's clock began to tick 14 billion years ago, space was still a tight, blazing hot, frenzied packet of cosmic stuff. Stars...

Following the case of an unvaccinated elderly woman who was found to be infected with both the alpha and beta variants of Covid-19, experts...

This month, data from several clinical trials will be released to determine whether "mixing and matching" different COVID-19 vaccines is safe and effective, or...

Grannies congregate in China's public parks and squares in the early hours of the morning or late in the afternoon. The gangs, mostly made up...

Gaston, a 57-year-old Venezuelan human rights lawyer, spent years visiting the country's most deplorable prisons defending students imprisoned for protesting the socialist government. Fearing retaliation...

Car insurance premiums skyrocket by as much as 130% when a new teen driver is added onto an already existing policy and may even...

US President Joe Biden slipped a phrase into a major address on infrastructure spending earlier this month with a laugh, calling it a "boring...

Facebook is continuing to face growing scrutiny from regulators over the company's acquisitions and also from critics for the role its social platform may...

As Congress prepares to vote on a $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, every American household should be on high alert because some Democrats want to...

A group of astronauts who are trailblazers for their respective ethnicities are now true "rock stars," having asteroids named for them. The International Astronomical Union...

AstraZeneca Plc's antibody cocktail was only 33% effective in preventing symptomatic Covid-19 in people who had been exposed to the virus, failing a key...

Chrissy Teigen is reflecting on herself following her cyberbullying scandal. During an appearance on the Today show on Tuesday morning, the 35-year-old author of Cravings:...

When you are involved in a lawsuit, most likely it is for some type of deficiency judgment, which means that the court finds that...

On April 1st, Myanmar's deposed leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been charged with breaking a colonial-era official secrets law, her lawyer said on...

Russell Leaks had more reason to be concerned about the coronavirus than the average person. The 66-year-old Tennessee cook has chronic liver disease, high...