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MEXICO CITY, Mexico – Lawmakers in Mexico on Wednesday approved a bill to legalize recreational marijuana, which could make the nation the…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY, Mexico – Lawmakers in Mexico on Wednesday approved a bill to legalize recreational marijuana, which could make the nation the…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas has long faced allegations that its famous alma mater, “The Eyes of Texas,” had a racist…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — A group of bipartisan U.S. senators is reintroducing a bill that would make Daylight Saving Time (DST) permanent. In the…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — The number of migrant children and families seeking to cross the U.S. southwest border has surged to levels not seen since before…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — U.S. House Democrats on Wednesday passed a massive $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill with the goal of having it on President Joe…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK, NY — Congress’ approval of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief stimulus bill helped spur stocks on Wall Street broadly…
Continue ReadingMichigan police charged a 33-year-old man Tuesday after a student brought a homemade explosive device to a high school and accidentally detonated it.…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he is directing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to purchase an…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Senate has confirmed Merrick Garland to be the next U.S. attorney general with a strong bipartisan vote, placing the…
Continue ReadingThe Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has received the vial from the first authorized Covid-19 vaccine dose administered in the…
Continue ReadingWhat’s better than having your own luxury resort in the Bahamas? Owning your own private island in the Bahamas. Little Ragged Island, also…
Continue ReadingThe nation’s second-largest school district has reached a tentative deal with a teachers’ union to reopen its schools for at least some…
Continue ReadingA Harvard professor has sparked international backlash after publishing an academic article arguing that Korean comfort women — sent against…
Continue ReadingAn investigation into the death of Kendrick Johnson, the Georgia teenager found dead in a rolled-up gym mat eight years ago, has been reopened,…
Continue ReadingProsecutors and a defense attorney for Kyle Rittenhouse agreed to move the start of Rittenhouse’s trial in fatal shootings during protests in…
Continue ReadingMarch 26 marks the one-year anniversary of Lauren Thomas Mandel’s Covid-19 infection — and she and her family are still feeling the…
Continue ReadingAlaska, one of the states leading the US in vaccinations, has made the Covid-19 vaccine available to any resident ages 16 and up. It’s the…
Continue ReadingA Utah woman’s new home came with an old mystery — a tombstone from the 1890s. Elise Armand was going through her storage shed over the…
Continue ReadingPLANO, Texas — Texas school and law enforcement officials have launched investigations after videos surfaced showing a 13-year-old allegedly…
Continue ReadingThe state of Hawaii is under an emergency proclamation as the state struggles with widespread damage from flooding. Gov. David Ige signed the…
Continue ReadingPerched on her living room couch, cup of tea in hand, Krista Bose rattles off complex medical terms without the slightest hesitation, then pauses to…
Continue ReadingMany of us are looking back through our phone’s camera roll right about now, reminiscing on where we were this time last year. We all have a…
Continue ReadingIt wasn’t until Yusuf Nur was inside the execution chamber, standing next to a condemned man strapped to a gurney, that he understood why…
Continue ReadingSea levels are rising, and of course that’s affecting coastal cities. But the very infrastructure that makes those cities run compounds the…
Continue ReadingOne in three women globally are subjected to physical or sexual violence during their lifetimes, estimates a damning new report from the World Health…
Continue ReadingGeorgia’s House of Representatives has unanimously passed a bill that would roll back citizen’s arrest law in the state. Monday’s…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas — Texans will no longer be under a statewide mandate to wear masks in public as of Wednesday, but they shouldn’t be too…
Continue ReadingTelevision journalist Roger Mudd, who was once Walter Cronkite’s primary substitute at CBS, died Tuesday at his home in Fairfax County,…
Continue ReadingThe Chinese government’s alleged actions in Xinjiang have violated every single provision in the United Nations’ Genocide Convention,…
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