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Alaska faces the prospect of a partial government shutdown next week amid an ongoing fight over how much to pay residents in the form of an annual dividend from the state's nestegg oilwealth fund.

Washington may need to rethink its approach to Iran if the serious differences between the two countries on resuming compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal cannot be resolved "in the foreseeable future", a senior U.S. official said on Thursday.

Foo Fighters, Lizzo, Demi Lovato, Ludacris, The Isley Brothers, Melissa Etheridge and Trombone Shorty are among the acts slated to take the stage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which returns this fall after a oneyear hiatus brought on by the...

Now, by rooting through files stored on Google Cloud, a researcher in Seattle reports that he has recovered 13 of those original sequences — intriguing new information for discerning when and how the virus may have spilled over from a bat or another anima...

Canada's Liberal government on Wednesday unveiled plans to make online hate speech a crime, although the proposed legislation excludes social media platforms for now.

A U.S. warship has again sailed through the sensitive waterway that separates Taiwan from China, a week after the Chineseclaimed island reported the largest incursion https://www.reuters.com/world/asiapacific/taiwanreportslargestincursionyetbychineseairfo...

A judge Tuesday struck down a New York City law that had prohibited the city's police officers from putting pressure on a persons torso while making an arrest, calling the measure unconstitutionally vague.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will confer Wednesday with White House officials on next steps for President Joe Biden's nearly $4 trillion infrastructure plans as talks with Republicans seesaw in search of a potential...

The World Bank on Tuesday agreed to boost its spending on climate change to 35% from 28% and to provide annual progress reports to its board after its draft climate change action plan came under fire for lacking a clear implementation strategy.

An Ohio resident on a backpacking trip at the Grand Canyon has died of suspected heatrelated illness amid a heat wave in the U.S. West, park officials said Monday.

Chicago's police superintendent said Monday that his decision to strip an officer's police powers was tied in part to the officer's ownership of a house on the city's South Side where gunmen killed five people and injured three others.

The Pride parade route glowed with rainbow colors and Mardi Gras beads, some crowdgoers waved flags in anticipation of what was supposed to be a celebration of life and love, more meaningful than ever postpandemic in this tightknit South Florida gay commu...

The Biden administration has previously promised a 'practical, calibrated approach' o persuade the impoverished North to give up its banned nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes.

Germany's liberal Free Democrats (FDP) will not join a coalition led by the ecologist Greens after an election in September, massselling Bild daily reported on Monday, citing party sources.

Seven other cities and areas, including the second city of Saint-Petersburg, have imposed similar rules

This week the average number of daily deaths surpassed 2,000 for the first time since May 10.