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Barbara Rickles, the widow of Don Rickles and a fictionalized target of his comic insults, died on what would have been their 56th wedding anniversary.

Security forces killed at least 22 anticoup protesters in the poor, industrial Hlaingthaya suburb of Myanmar's main city on Sunday after Chinesefinanced factories were set ablaze there, an advocacy group said.

New Delhi decided to conduct the review after several countries suspended rollout over blood clot fears even as the World Health Organization said there was no reason to stop using AstraZeneca's Covid-19 jab.

Lawmakers in Wyoming, where gay college student Matthew Shepard was killed more than 20 years ago, again decided not to adopt a hate crimes law.

Most people in Mississippis capital now have running water, more than three weeks after the majority of taps in the city of 161,000 went dry during a winter storm. Still, officials said Thursday that thousands will likely remain under a boilnotice into ne...

A former mayor in California who gained national attention for running the country's highestprofile experiment with a guaranteed income is joining Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration as an unpaid special advisor.

President Joe Biden signed his $1.9 trillion stimulus bill into law on Thursday, commemorating the oneyear anniversary of a U.S. lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic with a measure designed to bring relief to Americans and boost the economy.

While reactions after taking COVID-19 vaccine may be unpleasant, they are usually short-lived and far less serious than what happens after a natural infection.

The research noted that this variant, B.1.1.7, is linked to a significantly higher mortality rate amongst adults

After lawmakers rejected a statewide ban on noknock warrants, a Kentucky state House committee advanced a version Wednesday that limits the practice but stops short of a sweeping prohibition, nearly one year after the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.

A nonprofit group encouraging STEM professionals to run for public office is pushing a former NASA astronaut to enter North Carolina's Democratic primary for an open U.S. Senate seat.

A North Carolina womens college basketball team forfeited a chance at its conference championship to stand in solidarity with a teammate who was disciplined for her part in an incident during which she said she was the target of racial slurs.

The father of a missing Iraqi antigovernment activist who waged a public campaign trying to bring to account a militia suspected of kidnapping him was shot to death Wednesday, a human rights monitor and security officials said.

Myanmar has been in crisis since the army ousted Suu Kyi's elected government in a coup on Feb. 1, detained her and other NLD officials

Republican Wisconsin lawmakers called Tuesday for Green Bay's Democratic mayor to resign following a report on a conservative website alleging he ceded authority for running the election to a paid consultant with ties to Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg...

The committee representing child sex abuse survivors in the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy case has agreed to the extension of an injunction halting lawsuits against local Boy Scouts councils and sponsoring organizations.