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Some Republicans in Pennsylvania defended Donald Trump-backed gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano on Saturday after Reuters published a 2014 photo of him posing in a Confederate uniform.

A young mountain lion shot by police died in surgery at a California zoo on Friday, a zoo spokesperson said, after the animal was startled by a tranquilizer dart and jumped at an officer in a suburban neighborhood.

Pope Francis on Saturday inducted 20 cardinals from around the world, choosing men who mostly agree with his vision of a more progressive and inclusive Church and influencing their choice of his eventual successor.

The child was evaluated and given medical attention before being turned over to the Department of Child Safety.

The disturbing incident was caught on camera.

A study found that non-related people who look almost identical to each other also had DNA similarities that could compare to actual identical twins.

Montenegro's Danka Kovinic will find herself in an unfamiliar place in the tennis spotlight on the sport's biggest stage on Monday playing the part of potential party pooper at Serena Williams's U.S.

A U.S. judge on Friday recommended that victims of the Sept.

A New Mexico man was charged with attempting to set up a training center for people wishing to fight for Islamic State, the Department of Justice said on Friday.

Very few people who have gotten monkeypox shots in the United States have received the second dose needed for full protection, U.S.

Three years before retiring from the U.S. Army in 2017, Donald Trump-backed Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano posed in Confederate uniform for a faculty photo at the Army War College, according to a copy of the photo obtained by Reuters.

Nicole Aunapu Mann has waited nine long years for her chance to go into space.

The following are quotes from and reactions to the release on Friday under court order of a U.S.

A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld the decision of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to approve a SpaceX plan to deploy some Starlink satellites at a lower Earth orbit than planned as part of its push to offer space-based broadband internet.

An effort by the United Arab Emirates to convince the United States with the help of a wealthy real estate investor to name former congressman Stephen Stockman as U.S.

The accused ringleader of a scheme involving at least 19 former National Basketball Association players to defraud a league health plan into paying millions of dollars for bogus medical procedures pleaded guilty on Friday over his involvement.

Russia's capabilities in the North are a strategic challenge for NATO, its Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday, welcoming Canada's recently announced investments in North American defense systems after making his first visit to the Canadian arctic.

A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld a ban on smoking in federally subsidized public housing.

U.S. labor markets are even more constrained than the current 3.5% unemployment rate indicates, according to new economic research that argues declines in the number of hours employees want to work were reinforced by the pandemic and are set to continue.

These states were determined to be the most unsafe during the pandemic, a new study suggests.

Moderna is suing Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech for patent infringement in the development of the first COVID-19 vaccine approved in the United States, alleging they copied technology that Moderna developed years before the pandemic.

The video went viral on social media, with many people commenting how they have never seen a crocodile gallop.

No more ironing, limited oven use and showering at work - Europeans are trying to keep their energy use down but the bills keep climbing.

The White House will mark Women's Equality Day on Friday by meeting state and local leaders to discuss ways to safeguard access to abortions amid a flurry of legal challenges against its efforts to protect reproductive rights.

"I will not deal with this nonsense," the woman posted on Facebook accusing the family members of turning a blind eye to the domestic violence suffered by her twin sister.

"The Texas Miracle died in Uvalde. Don't move to Texas," reads the billboards that have popped up in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

The U.S. Justice Department is expected to make public on Friday a redacted version of the affidavit that led to the Aug.

Police found the body in the living room and located the daughter in a nearby bedroom.

The woman had earlier lost three babies and consulted a religious person on how she could ensure her fourth child survived.