President Joe Biden on Friday issued the first-ever presidential proclamation of Indigenous Peoplesβ Day, lending the most significant boost yet to efforts to refocus the federal holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus toward an appreciation of native peoples.
President Joe Biden will restore two sprawling national monuments in Utah that have been at the center of a long-running public lands tug-of-war between presidential administrations, the stateβs governor said Thursday.
Hundreds of volunteers have come together to help rebuild 25 homes in Charlotte's Historic Lakeview Neighborhood as part of a national Building a Healthy Neighborhood initiative.
Searching for flights on Google just got βgreener.β A new search feature rolled out Wednesday tells users which flights have lower carbon emissions, giving them the ability to choose flights based on carbon emissions just as they would price or the number of layovers.
Pfizer asked the U.S. government Thursday to allow use of its COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 5 to 11 -- and if regulators agree, shots could begin within a matter of weeks.
@halfdrunkdunkks is an account dedicated solely to half-drunk Dunkin' Donuts drinks that are littering Boston's landscape.
A summer of labor unrest at U.S. food manufacturers has stretched into fall, as pandemic-weary workers continue to strike for better pay.
Bank of America announced on Wednesday it has raised its U.S. minimum hourly wage to $21.
K-pop superstars BTS have raised $3.6 million and generated millions of tweets during four years of teaming up with the U.N. childrenβs agency to fight violence, abuse and bullying and promote self-esteem in young people, the agency is announcing Wednesday.
An 18-year-old student opened fire during a fight at his Dallas-area high school on Wednesday, injuring four people and then fleeing before being taken into custody hours later, authorities said.
After 40 drawings without a big Powerball winner, a single ticket sold in California matched all six numbers and was the lucky winner of the nearly $700 million jackpot prize, officials said.
Bubba Wallace is the first Black driver to win at the top level of the elite stock car series since Wendell Scott in 1963, a race where he wasnβt declared the victor until long after Buck Baker had already been rewarded the trophy.
Johnson & Johnson asked the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday to allow extra shots of its COVID-19 vaccine as the U.S. government moves toward expanding its booster campaign to millions more vaccinated Americans.
Multiplatinum selling pop super-group New Kids On The Block continues the party like nobody else can with the announcement of The MixTape Tour 2022, with their friends Salt-N-Pepa, Rick Astley and En Vogue as legendary special guests.Β
Facebook along with its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms suffered a worldwide outage Monday. Facebookβs internal systems used by employees also went down. Service has not yet been restored.
Live Nation announced that all of its fully owned and operated venues along with festivals across the U.S. will require attendees, artists and staff to be fully vaccinated or show a negative test result for entry starting on Oct. 4.
Star Trekβs Captain Kirk is rocketing into space this month β boldly going where no other sci-fi actors have gone.
"Itβs this small town that I could run around in, raise havoc, without having to worry,β said Payton Gregory, who grew up in Moab. βBut now that this stuff is happening, I canβt go camping, I canβt walk around at night.β
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 700,000 late Friday β a number greater than the population of Boston.
he Biden administration on Friday urged a federal judge to block the nationβs most restrictive abortion law, which has banned most abortions in Texas since early September and sent women racing to get care beyond the borders of the second-most populous state.
