Half of all adults in the U.S. have received at least one COVID-19 shot, the government announced Sunday, marking another milestone in the nationβs largest-ever vaccination campaign but leaving more work to do to convince skeptical Americans to roll up their sleeves.
Charles βChuckβ Geschke β the co-founder of the major software company Adobe Inc. who helped develop Portable Document Format technology, or PDFs β died at age 81.
The Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January created a trove of self-incriminating evidence, thoroughly documenting their actions and words in videos and social media posts. Now some of the camera-toting people in the crowd are claiming they were only there to record history as journalists, not to join a deadly insurrection.
The former employee who shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis legally purchased the two assault rifles used in the attack despite red flag laws designed to prevent that, police said.
Safety regulators warned people with kids and pets Saturday to immediately stop using a treadmill made by Peloton after one child died and nearly 40 others were injured.
British actor Helen McCrory, who starred in the television show βPeaky Blindersβ and the βHarry Potterβ movies, has died, her husband said Friday. She was 52 and had been suffering from cancer.
Facing swift blowback from allies and aid groups, the White House on Friday said President Joe Biden plans to lift his predecessorβs historically low cap on refugees by next month, after initially moving only to expand the eligibility criteria for resettlements.
The NCAA made it official Thursday, announcing the Division I Council had voted to approve a plan that will allow all college athletes to transfer one time as an undergraduate without having to sit out a season.
The Biden administration announced Thursday the U.S. is expelling 10 Russian diplomats and imposing sanctions against dozens of companies and people, holding the Kremlin accountable for interference in last yearβs presidential election and the hacking of federal agencies.
The defense at the murder trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd wrapped up its case Thursday without putting Chauvin on the stand, presenting two days of testimony to the prosecutionβs two weeks.
Former Republican Gov. Pat McCrory on Wednesday announced heβll run for the U.S. Senate in North Carolina, shaking up the calculus in the expanding field to succeed retiring Sen. Richard Burr with the entrance of a veteran of statewide politics.
Federal prosecutors will not charge a police officer who shot and killed a woman as she climbed through the broken part of a door during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
A Minnesota prosecutor said Wednesday that he will charge a white former suburban Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, igniting days of unrest and clashes between protesters and police.
Bernard Madoff, the infamous architect of an epic securities swindle that burned thousands of investors, outfoxed regulators and earned him a 150-year prison term, died in a federal prison early Wednesday. He was 82.
The U.S. is recommending a βpauseβ in administration of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to investigate reports of potentially dangerous blood clots.
President Joe Biden will withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America that were coordinated from that country, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
Genesis Houpe contacted WCCB after finding a Confederate flag hanging outside her front door.
Police faced gunfire as they responded to reports of a possible gunman at a Tennessee high school Monday, leaving one person dead and an officer wounded, authorities said.
The police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb apparently intended to fire a Taser, not a handgun, as the man struggled with police, the cityβs police chief said Monday.
The definition of infrastructure in the spotlight. Critics say much of President Biden's $2 Trillion plan... funds other things. So what are the chances the President's agenda makes it through Congress?
