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The World Health Organization's European region has recorded a slight drop in both COVID-19 cases and deaths last week after facing a string of weekly increases....

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization's European region has recorded a slight drop in both COVID-19 cases and deaths......

The World Health Organization's European region has recorded a slight drop in both COVID-19 cases and deaths last week after facing a string of weekly increases......

Olaf Scholz became the first new German chancellor in 16 years on Wednesday, succeeding Angela Merkel....

Parts of northern New England are about to get their first significant snowfall of the season....

Former police officer Kim Potter is standing trial in Minnesota on manslaughter charges in the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright....

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kim Potter, a former police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, is charged with manslaughter in the April......

The legality of an order by Pennsylvania's acting state health secretary requiring masks in K-12 schools and child care facilities is before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court....

Preliminary data out of South Africa suggest COVID vaccines are much less effective at stopping infection from the omicron variant, but there's hope the vaccines will protect against severe disease....

Deqa Dhalac is the first Somali immigrant to become the mayor of a U.S. city....

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Deqa Dhalac is the first Somali immigrant to become the mayor of a U.S. city, but......

Deqa Dhalac is the first Somali immigrant to become the mayor of a U.S....

A 49-year-old man is in custody after allegedly setting a Christmas tree on fire outside of the Fox News building in New York City. Witnesses posted videos to the Citizen App of the perpetrator lighting the tree on West 48th Street and 6th Avenue on fire....

Authorities say a man vandalized and stole pieces of a statue on the grounds of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception over the weekend....

If the president truly wants to spur recovery from the pandemic, he should listen to the courts and get out of the way....

The book had been advertised as "a provocative analysis of the harsh truths that the pandemic and Trump years have exposed about America....

Former police officer Kim Potter is standing trial in Minnesota on manslaughter charges in the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright......

NEW YORK (AP) — Pfizer says early lab tests suggest COVID-19 boosters provide protection against omicron variant....

A booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine provides protection against omicron that is similar to a two-dose course against the original strain of the coronavirus, the companies said Wednesday based on preliminary lab studies. The drugmakers also said ...

Olaf Scholz is set to take office as Germany's ninth post-World War II chancellor, succeeding Angela Merkel after her heralded 16-year tenure......

PARIS (Reuters) - The French government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday that the fifth wave of the COVID-19 epidemic engulfing France has......

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The scandal emerges as the country faces new coronavirus restrictions to curb the omicron variant....

The dress sword carried by Napolon Bonaparte when he staged a coup in 1799 and five of his firearms sold at auction for nearly $2.9 million, US auctioneers announced Tuesday. The lot, which was put up for sale by the Illinois-based Rock Island Auction Com...

(Reuters) - BioNTech and Pfizer said on Wednesday a three-shot course of their COVID-19 vaccine was able to neutralise the new Omicron variant in a......

If the Supreme Court marches backwards, with a Roe decision that mirrors earlier advocates of slavery who believed constitutional rights should be determined by state politics — pro-choice women will lead the political march forward to women's r...

By Maytaal Angel, Gustavo Palencia and Sofia MenchuEL LAUREL, Honduras/LA LAGUNETA, Guatemala (Reuters) - The four sons of Mara Bonilla and......

Angela Merkel stepped down as Germany's chancellor after 16 years. Her successor, OIaf Scholz, took office on Wednesday....

Papua New Guinea carried out the first in a series of mass Covid-19 burials Wednesday, interring 54 people whose remains were unclaimed for months as the pandemic ravaged the under-resourced Melanesian nation. Hospital and government officials ordered the...

Financial Times U.S. National Editor Edward Luce appeared on MSNBC Wednesday morning to discuss the law and how it pertains to the former presidency of Donald J. Trump and his allies who continue to dismiss it . "We're already well into the electi...

A 19-year-old was fatally stabbed in a knife fight in Silver Spring, police said....

NDAA DONE DEAL: A carefully crafted compromise version of the $778 billion 2022 National Defense Authorization Act — the law that sets policy for the Pentagon — passed the House last night and is headed to the Senate stripped of some of its mo...

Thailand's Supreme Court has affirmed a three-year, two-month prison sentence for a top construction tycoon in connection with a poaching incident in a wildlife sanctuary in which a black panther was shot and cooked over a campfire....

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed a three-year, two-month prison sentence for a top construction tycoon in......

Two international human rights groups say Lebanese authorities should immediately release a freelance American journalist who was detained in Beirut last month and continues to be held despite the fact that a prosecutor ordered her release....

German lawmakers elected Social Democrat Olaf Scholz as new chancellor on Wednesday, ending 16 years of conservative rule under Angela Merkel and paving the way for a pro-European coalition government which has vowed to boost green investment. Scholz , wh...

Regulators insist Fourth Amendment protections don't apply to administrative searches....

President Joe Biden finds himself in the complicated position of trying to project strength against Russia while also avoiding new military entanglements....

President Joe Biden is setting records for his sparse outreach to the press, notching a fraction of the face time with journalists that his recent predecessors scored....

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is proposing a grocery tax credit he said will save taxpayers $160 million as part of his fiscal year 2023 budget recommendations....

12/8/1902: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes takes the oath....

New York City will soon roll out a vaccine mandate for all private sector employees, despite the series of legal setbacks that have befallen President Joe Biden's attempt to do the same thing on the federal level....

It has now been over a decade since Syria erupted into civil war. The uprising was spontaneous and spread like wildfire. Within weeks, President Bashar Assad had lost control over huge swaths of Syrian territory. The Assad family's demise appeared ine...

Here's an action agenda for the free nations participating in Biden's Summit for Democracy to start a "year of action."...

India's growth would be fastest among major economies in the world, surpassing China if rebound stays on track...

Voting is ending at three stores around Buffalo, N.Y. Starbucks had flown in executives to the area and asked federal officials to delay the ballot count....

This generation is carrying on the quaint custom of sending and receiving season's greetings by mail....

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A federal magistrate judge ruled against the right-wing Project Veritas media outlet and will not release details about an FBI raid of its founder, according to Politico. Federal agents seized cell phones Nov. 6 from conservative activist James O'Keef...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - At least 13 out of the 14 people on board a helicopter carrying Indian defence chief General Bipin Rawat that crashed in......