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The draft U.S. Supreme Court decision on abortion leaked earlier this month could mean the court will later go after same-sex marriage, contraception, and other rights, President Joe Biden said at a fundraiser on Wednesday in Chicago.

The 1 million mark is a stark reminder of the staggering grief and loss caused by the pandemic even as the threat posed by the virus wanes in the minds of many people.

The United States has now recorded more than 1 million COVID-19 deaths, according to a Reuters tally, crossing a once-unthinkable milestone about two years after the first cases upended everyday life and quickly transformed it.

COVID-19 death rates among the fully vaccinated population are rising. As vaccine effectiveness wears off, experts in the US encourage people to get a booster shot.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Wednesday the Chinese government opposes an effort in Congress to ramp up U.S.

The U.S. Department of Defense has asked Congress to let it fund facilities in the United Kingdom and Australia that process strategic minerals used to make electric vehicles and weapons, calling the proposal crucial to national defense.

A school bus, dump truck, and another vehicle crashed causing at least 17 people to be in injured near Charolette, North Carolina.

Vermont prosecutors suspect a man killed his mother to gain access to millions in inheritance from the family’s estate.

Jerome Powell, nominated for a second term as chair of the U.S.

The Biden administration has drafted an executive order that would give the Department of Justice vast powers to stop foreign adversaries like China accessing Americans' personal data, according to a person familiar with the matter and excerpts seen by Reuters.

A Los Angeles woman was arrested for murdering her boyfriend in a 26-year old cold case that was cracked open by an anonymous letter to police. 

A Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson Amry soldier was a attacked and killed by a bear at the Anchorage, Alaska, base.

In New York, lawmakers have introduced a bill to expand funding for abortion care.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated seven new members to the hobbled U.S.

"Unfortunately, there may be more houses that collapse onto Seashore beaches in the near future," said an official.

Arkansas's attorney general on Wednesday accused drugmakers and pharmacy benefit managers of colluding to drive up the price of insulin drugs, the latest in a series of lawsuits to take aim at skyrocketing costs for the life-sustaining medicine.

Strong winds drove the largest U.S. wildfire toward a New Mexico ski resort and the 1,000-year-old community of Taos on Wednesday.

Firefighters in northern New Mexico labored under an apocalyptic orange sky, and vehicles streamed out of the ski area of Angel Fire on Wednesday as wind-driven flames from the state's second-largest blaze on record roared closer to the mountain resort.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump must pay a $110,000 fine and meet other conditions to purge a contempt of court order over his failure to comply with a subpoena in a civil probe into his business practices by New York state's attorney general, a judge said on Wednesday.

The House passed the bill to protect Congressional staffers from relation should they decide to unionize, but as of now the resolution only applies to House staff, not Senate staff.

An Interior Department investigation into the dark history of Indian boarding schools has found "marked or unmarked burial sites" at some 53 schools, Secretary Deb Haaland said on Wednesday.

A U.S. government investigation into the dark history of Native American boarding schools has found "marked or unmarked burial sites" at 53 of them, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said on Wednesday.

An Interior Department investigation into the dark history of Native American boarding schools in the United States has found "marked or unmarked burial sites" at some 53 schools, Secretary Deb Haaland said on Wednesday.

The financial strength built up in U.S. households limited the damage from the coronavirus pandemic but may now be aggravating - and prolonging - the Federal Reserve's inflation fight as the central bank waits for people to run out of spending power.

"We got one guy on the deck, looks like he’s unconscious, bleeding heavily from the face," police officials said.

Tuesday’s Mega Millions’ jackpot was worth $288 million with a cash option of $208 million.

Inflation stayed uncomfortably strong in April after growing by another 8.3% in a sign that efforts to combat it may not be doing enough to contain its ascent.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has stopped stationing a plane in Mexico for anti-narcotics operations for the first time in decades after Mexican officials rescinded its parking spot, three sources said.

Cardinal Joseph Zen, one of the most senior Catholic clerics in Asia, and three others who helped run a now-disbanded Hong Kong fund for protesters were arrested on charges of "collusion with foreign forces," and later released on bail.