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A handful of NYC DOE employees will be suspended without pay for allegedly submitting fake COVID-19 vaccine cards.

Josh Mandel, a leading contender to win the nomination in the U.S.

The famous "Washington Crossing the Delaware" painting, which hung in the White House from the 1970s to 2014, is coming up for auction next month, when it is estimated to fetch about $20 million.

LA County's Public Health Department reinstated mask mandates after a U.S. district court decision struck them down nationwide.

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen looks unlikely to win France's presidential election, but many western allies fear an upset on Sunday that could jolt the international order no less than the 2016 vote for Brexit and Donald Trump's White House victory.

U.S. stocks were set to open lower on Friday after mixed earnings, while growth stocks cut some losses in a torrid week marked by surging bond yields as investors braced for higher interest rates.

Wall Street slumped to a lower close on Friday, ending a whipsaw week of surprise earnings news and increased certainty around aggressive near-term interest rate rises, which also pushed them into negative territory for the week.

Mexican officials are concerned the repeal of a measure adopted under the Trump administration to tighten the U.S.

Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene entered a Georgia courtroom on Friday to face a challenge by a group of voters trying to block her from the ballot, citing a post-Civil War policy aimed at keeping insurrectionists from office.

Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene told a Georgia judge hearing an effort to block her from the ballot that she had urged people to join a "peaceful march" on Jan.

Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday told a lawyer for voters seeking to disqualify her from running for re-election that she did not know how to answer a question about whether she advocates violence against people with whom she disagrees.

Before Arian Taherzadeh was arrested for impersonating a U.S.

Kenya's former president Mwai Kibaki, who has died aged 90, ushered in economic reforms and a new constitution but failed to deliver on promises to combat graft and his tenure was marred by a disputed re-election which led to deadly violence.

Health authorities around the world are investigating a mysterious increase in severe cases of hepatitis - inflammation of the liver - in young children.

U.S. President Joe Biden marks Earth Day on Friday with a trip to lush but fire-prone Washington state and the signing of an executive order to protect old-growth forests.

U.S. President Joe Biden marked Earth Day on Friday with a speech promoting a new effort to protect old-growth forests as he visits the lush but fire-prone Washington state.

Europeans endured the hottest summer on record last year, with wildfires, floods and intense heatwaves hitting the continent, according to a report https://climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2021 by EU scientists released Friday.

Cops arrested the suspects on multiple charges including hate crime and attempted first-degree murder.

The deaths of the crew members assigned to the aircraft carrier USS George Washington are being investigated, according to officials.

A senior-level U.S. delegation met the Solomon Islands' leader on Friday and warned that Washington would have "significant concerns and respond accordingly" to any steps to establish a permanent Chinese military presence in the Pacific island nation.

World stocks hit five-week lows, U.S. stock index futures indicated a lower Wall Street open and bond yields soared to multi-year highs on Friday as investors brace for rate hikes in the United States, Britain and the euro zone.

U.S. stocks and oil tumbled on Friday while bond yields continued to gain as investors prepared for a bevy of interest rate hikes in a global inflation fight.

Philadelphia is ending its indoor mask mandate, health officials said late on Thursday, reversing its decision just days after imposing the order.

A Russian general said on Friday that Moscow wants to seize all of southern and eastern Ukraine, far wider war aims than it had acknowledged as it presses on with a new offensive after its campaign to capture the capital Kyiv collapsed last month.

Moscow wants to take full control over southern Ukraine, a Russian general said on Friday, a statement Ukraine said gave the lie to Russia's previous assertions that it had no territorial ambitions.

Moscow wants to take full control over southern Ukraine, a Russian general said on Friday, a statement Ukraine said gave the lie to Russia's previous assertions that it had no territorial ambitions.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis opened a new front in the culture wars this week, taking on one of his state's biggest employers and most powerful lobbyists: Walt Disney Co.

If North Korea resumes nuclear testing, it could include development of smaller "tactical" warheads meant for battlefield use and designed to fit on short-range missiles such as the one tested last weekend, analysts said.

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said on Thursday she was unsure if two nuclear power plants with previous plans to shut will apply for subsidies the Biden administration launched this week as part of its policy to fight climate change.