NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – The African continent has surpassed 2 million confirmed cases as health officials warn of infections starting to creep up…
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President Donald Trump’s campaign and Fox News host Tucker Carlson alleged last week that a vote cast by a Georgia woman named Deborah Jean…
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Four days after a sheriff’s deputy fatally shot two Black teenagers in the coastal Florida city of Cocoa, prompting a state investigation and…
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Four days after a sheriff’s deputy fatally shot two Black teenagers in the coastal Florida city of Cocoa, prompting a state investigation and…
Continue Reading Sacramento County this week became the latest local government to declare racism a public health crisis. The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors…
Continue Reading NEW YORK, NY — The confirmed U.S. death toll from coronavirus now tops 250,000, the highest in world, by the Johns Hopkins University’s…
Continue Reading Colorado authorities have issued a warrant for homicide in connection with the discovery of human remains in rural southern Colorado, police said…
Continue Reading Major League Baseball (MLB) announced Wednesday that New York Mets second baseman Robinson Canó will be suspended without pay for the entire 2021…
Continue Reading Two cosmonauts, both from the Russian space agency Roscosmos, conducted a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station on Wednesday. Sergey…
Continue Reading New York City is closing down its public school buildings starting on Thursday after the city’s 7-day average reached the 3% positive testing…
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New York City is closing down its public school buildings starting on Thursday after the city’s 7-day average reached the 3% positive testing…
Continue Reading After a year of fighting a rare form of cancer, former “MasterChef Junior” star Ben Watkins died this week at the age of 14, his family…
Continue Reading An NFL game will feature an all-Black officiating crew for the first time in the league’s history. The crew, which will officiate the November…
Continue Reading In its 108th year, the US Postal Service’s annual “Operation Santa” letter writing campaign is going digital — and expanding…
Continue Reading Astronomers were surprised when they discovered what appeared to be a star surrounded by an ultraviolet ring 16 years ago. It became known as the…
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NEW YORK, NY — New York City is shuttering schools to try to stop the renewed spread of the coronavirus, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday in a…
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WASHINGTON, DC — A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from turning back unaccompanied migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico…
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NEW YORK, NY — A federal judge in New York who ruled over the weekend that the new DACA rules were invalid tore into the Trump administration…
Continue Reading New York City’s first LGBTQ+ owned and run housing complex opened in Queens on Friday, 30 years after the owner said she first conceived the…
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WASHINGTON, DC — The Federal Aviation Administration issued an order Wednesday that paved the way for the troubled Boeing 737 Max to carry…
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Sometime after midnight on October 21, Elisha Sunday Ibanga answered a phone call from his older brother’s number. The person on the other end…
Continue Reading A Virginia police chief has been fired after charges were dropped against Senator L. Louise Lucas and 17 others in the partial dismantling of a…
Continue Reading Keith Higgins knew he faced long odds when he entered the race. It’s hard to run as an independent candidate in Georgia. It’s even harder…
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NEW YORK, NY — A U.S. judge has granted the Department of Justice’s request to drop the drug trafficking and money laundering case against former…
Continue Reading Dinosaurs were doing well and could have continued to dominate Planet Earth if they had not been wiped out by an asteroid, new research has found.…
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NEW YORK, NY — A final analysis of the Phase 3 trial of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine shows it was 95% effective in preventing infections,…
Continue Reading For Thanksgiving Day, Zoom is lifting the time limit for free meetings — so your virtual family get-togethers won’t be cut short.…
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BERLIN (AP) — German police fired water cannons at demonstrators protesting coronavirus restrictions after saying the crowd ignored warnings to…
Continue Reading It may have been a battle for the ages in ancient Montana. About 67 million years ago, two iconic dinosaurs, a Triceratops horridus and a…
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