A look at the 15-year effort to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a national holiday, and the pushback against it....
Health officials defended their pandemic response on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, while with so many teachers out sick parents are being asked to teach classes....
Not many people can say they have a doctorate in interplanetary navigation, but Tim Crain can. While working on his PhD in Austin, Texas, in the 1990s he hoped one day to work on missions to Mars and in 2000 he landed his dream j...
In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice is the shortest day of the year and marks the beginning of winter....
As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, communities are giving thanks by giving back. From Arizona to Massachusetts, things like donated turkeys are being handed out to fill Thanksgiving Day tables. In Mansfield, Massachusetts, on...
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A man accused of ramming a car into Christmas parade-goers in Wisconsin on Sunday is to be charged with six deaths after another victim - a child - died. Darrell Brooks, 39, wept as he was arraigned in court with five counts of i...
IBM has unveiled an advanced "quantum" processor that is part of an effort to build super-fast computers. These machines could revolutionise computing, harnessing the strange world of quantum physics to solve problems beyond reach ...
CDC recommends 4th booster shot for immunocompromised...
House committee investigating Jan. 6 riot moves to vote on Bannon...
The Australian city of Sydney has emerged from lockdown after almost four months, with locals celebrating a range of new freedoms. People queued for pubs and shops that opened at midnight on Monday specifically for the occasion....
British author Susanna Clarke has won the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction for her second novel Piranesi. The fantasy work is the long-awaited follow-up to her acclaimed 2004 debut Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Piranesi...
Health Officials Concerned Labor Day Weekend Travel Will Create Spike In COVID Cases...
As Americans get ready to celebrate the end of summer, health officials are once again urging the public, particularly those who are still unvaccinated, to act responsibly during the Labor Day weekend, given the country'songoing struggl...
America’s longest war comes to an end 20 years later...
School board meetings become hotbed for mask mandate debates...
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The Food and Drug Administration is planning to authorize a third shot for the immune-compromised on Thursday, two sources familiar with the plans confirmed to ABC News. If the FDA green-lights the additional shots -- first reporte...
Sylvester Stallone to join comic classic 'Suicide Squad'...
Simone Biles pulls out of Olympics gymnastics competition...