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VIRUS OUTBREAK-VACCINE STATE USAGE Map. States across the country are dramatically scaling back their COVID-19 vaccine orders as interest in the shots wanes, putting the goal of herd immunity further out of reach. The following digital embed shows the us...

The Arizona House of Representatives has advanced a bill with a lastminute amendment that would ban racist, sexist, politicized or other controversial topics in schools and penalize teachers with fines.

The Utah Supreme Court affirmed the right of transgender people to change their sex designation on birth certificates Thursday, a ruling that came as a bright spot for advocates amid a wave of legislation targeting transgender people around the country.

Most of Google’s 135,000 employees can continue to work from home through September of this year.

Colombian President Ivan Duque said on Tuesday the government is ready for national dialogue after days of protests led to over 20 deaths and international concern about excessive use of force by police.

The U.S. birth rate fell 4% last year, the largest singleyear decrease in nearly 50 years, according to a government report being released Wednesday.

The topranking House Republican on Tuesday renewed his party's attack on Major League Baseball for pulling the AllStar Game out of the Atlanta Braves stadium after Georgia Republicans enacted a restrictive new voting law, saying the sport's leaders were m...

Security camera footage broadcast by local media showed the carriages plunging towards the ground in the south of the city.

The July trial for Ghislaine Maxwell on charges that she aided exboyfriend Jeffrey Epstein in the sexual abuse of teenage girls was postponed to the fall on Monday.

Are the leaders of the National Rifle Association abusing the legal system to duck accountability for their mismanagement? Or are they making a legitimate move to reorganize in the face of an attack from politicians bent on dismantling the powerful gunrig...

Mexico on Monday marked the anniversary of a 1901 battle that ended one of the last Indigenous rebellions in North America, by issuing an apology for centuries of brutal exploitation and discrimination.

The listing procedure helps countries unable to assess a vaccine's effectiveness themselves have access as quickly as possible and allow the Covax vaccine sharing scheme and other partners to distribute it to poorer countries.

In his first major speech as Pentagon chief, Lloyd Austin on Friday called for developing a new vision for American defense in the face of emerging cyber and space threats and the prospect of fighting bigger wars.

A charter amendment to replace the Minneapolis Police Department is one step closer to going before voters in November after a coalition of activists submitted their petition to city officials on Friday.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper granted a pardon of innocence Friday to a man imprisoned for two decades before his two murder convictions were vacated more than four years ago by a trial judge.

The U.N. special envoy on Myanmar told the Security Council on Friday that in the absence of a collective international response to the country's coup, violence is worsening and the running of the state risks coming to a standstill, according to diplomats...