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Dozens have died in the most severe outbreak of violence since a 2014 war, with no resolution in sight.
House Republicans ousted Rep. Liz Cheney from her post as the chamber’s No. 3 GOP leader on Wednesday, punishing her after she repeatedly rebuked former President Donald Trump for his false claims of election fraud and his role in fomenting the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
The nation’s largest fuel pipeline restarted operations, days after it was forced to shut down by a gang of hackers.
South Carolina can’t put anyone to death now because its supply of lethal-injection drugs expired, and it has not been able to buy any more.
This first formal Oval Office meeting for the group — and for Biden and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky — brought together those two deal-makers at a dramatically different political and economic time than in their past talks.
A government advisory committee recommended Pfizer’s vaccine for children 12 and older on Wednesday, after the Food and Drug Administration expanded authorization of the shots to the age group earlier in the week.
Confirmed infections, meanwhile, have fallen to about 38,000 day on average, their lowest mark since mid-September.
The official was not authorized to speak publicly about the case and did so on the condition of anonymity.
Jay-Z, Foo Fighters and the Go-Go’s were elected Wednesday to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame their first time on the ballot, leading a class that also includes Tina Turner, Carole King and Todd Rundgren.
In his ruling, Judge Peter Cahill found that Chauvin abused his authority as a police officer when he restrained Floyd last year, and that he treated Floyd with particular cruelty.
Doctors who are ready to vaccinate their own kids want other parents to line up, too.
The debates have been emotional and highly divisive around the country, in some cases leading to the involvement of police.
Attorneys for a white father and son charged with chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery asked a judge Wednesday to allow evidence of the slain Black man’s past problems to be presented when their clients stand trial for murder.
April’s sharp increase in inflation was led by a record 10% surge in the price for used cars and trucks.
Burnout and fatigue are such a concern that some practices are hiring counselors to support their weary staffs.
The number of unaccompanied children encountered on the U.S. border with Mexico in April eased from an all-time high a month earlier, while more adults were found coming without families, authorities said Tuesday.
A panel of independent experts who reviewed the World Health Organization’s response to the coronavirus pandemic says the U.N. health agency should be granted “guaranteed rights of access” in countries to investigate emerging outbreaks.
The barrage of rockets from the Gaza Strip and airstrikes into the territory continued almost nonstop throughout the day, in what appeared to be some of the most intense fighting between Israel and Hamas since their 2014 war.
Under a judge’s order, family members were shown approximately 18 minutes of footage related to the death of Andrew Brown Jr.
The Colonial Pipeline, which delivers about 45% of the fuel consumed on the East Coast, was hit by a cyberattack on Friday.
Christopher Miller’s testimony is aimed at defending the Pentagon’s response to the chaos of the day and rebutting broad criticism that military forces were too slow to arrive even as pro-Trump rioters violently breached the building and stormed inside.
The action in Congress comes as states including Georgia, Florida, Arizona and Texas are pushing new voting rules, spurred by former President Donald Trump’s false claims about election fraud after his 2020 loss.
A Fulton County grand jury indicted Robert Aaron Long, 22, in the March 16 slayings.
Police say a gunman who killed six people at Colorado birthday party over the weekend opened fire because he had not been invited and then killed himself.
The nation’s vaccination rate has dramatically slowed in recent weeks.
A judge dismissed the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy case in a blow to the gun-rights group.
Romania’s Bran Castle is purported to be the inspiration behind Dracula’s home in Bram Stoker’s 19th-century gothic novel “Dracula.”
Travis McMichael and his father, Greg McMichael, as well as a neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, entered their pleas before a U.S. magistrate judge.
An offshore wind project off Massachusetts that would create enough electricity to power 400,000 homes and is touted by backers as a key piece of America’s transition to renewable energy was approved Tuesday by the federal government.
Medicare will require nursing homes to report COVID-19 vaccination rates for residents and staff, the government said Tuesday.
In a statement issued by his lawyer, Baffert said Medina Spirit was treated for dermatitis with the ointment once a day leading up to the May 1 race and that equine pharmacology experts have told him this could explain the test results.
The Texas Department of Public Safety said two central Texas sheriff’s deputies have been killed.
Mays, 46, pleaded guilty last year in federal court to seven counts of second-degree murder for intentionally injecting the men with unprescribed insulin at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Cente
Job openings rose nearly 8%, to 8.1 million in March, the most on records dating back to December 2000, the government said.
Images on social media of the bodies floating in the river prompted outrage and speculation that they died from COVID-19.
Biden said the U.S. had made “enormous progress” in expanding access to health insurance through this special enrollment period.
Tigers are not allowed within Houston city limits unless a handler, such as a zoo, is licensed to have exotic animals.
U.S. educators are doing everything they can to track down high school students who stopped showing up to classes and to help them get the credits needed to graduate, amid an anticipated surge in the country’s dropout rate during the coronavirus pandemic.
Police have charged a suspect with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a 6-year-old girl at a San Antonio car club meetup.
Colonial Pipeline offered an update Monday after revealing that it had halted operations because of a ransomware attack.
US expands use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, paving way for children as young as 12 to get shots.
The Capitol Police force was hurt by inadequate intelligence gathering ahead of the January 6 siege at the U.S. Capitol.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has pledged to thoroughly reform.
Drone video of two critically endangered North Atlantic right whales swimming in Cape Cod Bay shows the animals appearing to embrace one another with their flippers.
Officers arrived at a home trailer to find the six people dead and a man with serious injuries who died later at a hospital.
Medina Spirit’s Derby win by half a length over Mandaloun on May 1 gave trainer Bob Baffert his record seventh victory in the sport’s premier race.
Tim Tebow would be joining the Jaguars as a tight end.
The AP-NORC poll also shows an uptick in Americans’ overall optimism about the state of the country.
A man was fatally shot outside a U.S. Customs and Immigration Services building in central Florida, and a suspect has been taken into custody.
The Transportation Security Administration said that slightly more than 1.7 million people were screened at airport checkpoints on Sunday, the highest number since March 2020.