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Nurses, nonprofits, others take vaccine to homebound people

For months, Victoria McAllister searched online to make a vaccination appointment. Unlike other people who can hop into a ...

Scrum of challengers awaits Cheney after House GOP ouster

For pro-Trump Republicans, removing Rep. Liz Cheney from House GOP leadership was relatively easy. Booting her from office ...

Virus, Mideast turmoil stifle Eid al-Fitr celebrations

Muslims celebrated Eid al-Fitr in a subdued mood for a second year Thursday as the COVID-19 pandemic again forced mosque ...

Ohio offers $1m lottery for people getting vaccine

Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine has unrolled incentives including a weekly $1 million lottery prize and drawings for college ...

Biden team moves swiftly to tackle pipeline political peril

The Biden administration swung aggressively into action after a primary gasoline pipeline fell prey to a cyberattack — ...

Justices consider hearing a case on 'most offensive word'

Robert Collier says that during the seven years he worked as an operating room aide at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, ...

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Here's the latest for Thursday May 13th: More Israel-Gaza fighting; Massive gas pipeline restarted; Two small planes collide ...

On Eid, Xinjiang imams defend China against US criticism

Muslim leaders from the Xinjiang region rejected Western allegations that China is suppressing religious freedom, speaking ...

Schools ditch student mask requirements in growing numbers

As a lengthy, bitter fight over mask requirements for students neared its conclusion, the chairperson of a Florida school ...

Officials: Tiny uptick in 2020 military sex assault reports

Reports of sexual assaults across the U.S. military increased by a very small amount in 2020, a year when troops were largely ...

Official: Repairs to interstate bridge could take months

Repairs to the Interstate 40 bridge linking Arkansas and Tennessee could take months after a crack was found in the span, ...

US agents encounter more single adults crossing border

Parents emerge from the brush into a baseball field, carrying exhausted children. Border Patrol agents dictate orders: ...

US cities see surge in deadly street racing amid pandemic

Jaye Sanford, a 52-year-old mother of two, was driving home in suburban Atlanta on Nov. 21 when a man in a Dodge Challenger ...

Australian telco fined $39M for exploiting Indigenous folk

Australia’s largest telecommunications company Telstra was fined 50 million Australian dollars ($39 million) on Thursday for ...

West and rights groups accuse China of massive Uyghur crimes

Human rights groups and Western nations led by the United States, Britain and Germany accused China of massive crimes against ...

Takeaways: Partisan discord instead of Jan. 6 answers

A House hearing about what went wrong in the Jan. 6 Capitol siege frequently spiraled into partisan shouting matches on ...

GOP purged Cheney for 'unity,' but Trump bent on retribution

Republican leaders insisted that purging Trump critic Rep. Liz Cheney from their ranks was necessary to unify the party ahead ...

Deal reached for ex-White House counsel McGahn's testimony

Former White House counsel Don McGahn will answer questions in private from the House Judiciary Committee in an apparent ...

Myanmar military court gives DVB reporter 3 years in prison

A 51-year-old reporter for a now-banned online and broadcast news agency in Myanmar was sentenced Wednesday by a military ...

US hits China and others for repressing religious freedom

The Biden administration on Wednesday took aim at China and a number of other countries for repressing religious freedom as ...