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Dartmouth College has insisted that eliminating five sports is mostly about saving money but some Asian athletes claim the cuts were possibly discriminatory and serve to perpetuate anti-Asian prejudices.

U.S. deaths from the novel coronavirus topped 180,000 on Thursday as Iowa and Minnesota reported record oneday increases in new infections.

Joe Biden said Thursday that President Donald Trump sees unrest in Wisconsin as a political benefit and Biden said he would be willing to travel to the state if it would not be a distraction for law enforcement.

Testing for COVID19 infections and a fast turnaround for results are critical for controlling the pandemic, but broadbased population tests are not always useful, officials at the World Health Organization said on Thursday.

When Juan Meza could no longer bear to hear his daughter crying from hunger, the Adventist pastor sold his family's few belongings, gifted his prized fantasy novels and history books to a neighbor and left Venezuela in 2017 for a job at a shoe factory in...

A U.S. District Court judge in Washington ruled on Thursday that the Justice Department's new lethal injection protocol violated drug safety laws and ordered a planned execution for Friday to be halted.

China's foreign ministry said on Thursday that it was unjust for the United States to impose sanctions on Chinese companies involved in construction in the South China Sea as these activities were happening on China's own territory.

It was a music video meant to depict a young brides joy: Actress Saba Qamar, in a flowing white wedding gown with a golden hem, was twirled by the singer playing her groom in front of the mosaics of a 17thcentury mosque in Pakistans eastern city of Lahore...

The Australian government introduced legislation Thursday that would phase out exports of waste plastic, paper, glass and tires beginning January next year.

President Donald Trump has popped up multiple times during this week's Republican National Convention, but his big moment is scheduled for Thursday night when he is to make his case for another four years in the White House.

The company is one of the leading contenders in the race to develop a vaccine against the virus that has killed more than 820,000 people worldwide. Its candidate, mRNA-1273, is already in late-stage human trials testing its ability to safely prevent infec...

Republicans opened the third night of their convention on Wednesday with a strong lawandorder message, casting President Donald Trump as a supporter of law enforcement amid protests over the police shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin.

Vice President Mike Pence will make an economic pitch to reelect U.S. President Donald Trump at a Republican National Convention that resumed on Wednesday under the shadow of protests over the police shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin.

Arnold Spielberg, father of filmmaker Steven Spielberg and an innovating engineer whose work helped make the personal computer possible, has died at 103 years old.

Rapper Kanye West sued Ohios election chief Wednesday in an effort to be placed on the November presidential ballot after the Secretary of State deemed him unqualified as an independent candidate.

Greece plans to extend the western limit of its territorial waters in the Ionian Sea to 12 miles, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday.