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A group of American truckers began a cross-country drive from California to Washington on Wednesday to protest coronavirus restrictions, taking a cue from demonstrations that paralyzed Canada's capital city, Ottawa, for weeks.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he believes Russia will invade Ukraine within hours after separatists on Wednesday asked for Russian help to repel "aggression" and as explosions rocked the breakaway eastern city of Donetsk.

Separatists in Ukraine asked for Russian help to repel "aggression" on Wednesday and Kyiv announced compulsory military service and a state of emergency as the West slapped more sanctions on Moscow in a bid to stop an all-out invasion.

There were five deputies present at the scene during the shooting.

Indonesia's peatlands, California's forests, and, now, vast swathes of Argentine wetland have all been ravaged by extreme wildfires, heralding a fiery future and the dire need to prevent it.

The number of breakthrough COVID-19 deaths in the state represents less than 1% of all fully vaccinated individuals.

Two major storms that are expected to affect most the U.S. over the next week have caught the attention of meteorologists.

Almost all parents and pregnant women in China, Vietnam and the UK are exposed to "aggressive" formula milk marketing campaigns that breach global rules set up after scandals more than 40 years ago, according to a new report.

A U.S. judge signaled on Tuesday he may not let Donald Trump countersue E.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday he had canceled a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov planned for Thursday after Moscow's recognition of two separatist regions in Ukraine as independent entities.

Republicans are lining up to urge President Joe Biden to take a strong stand against Russia's Vladimir Putin as fears intensify that a wider invasion of Ukraine remains over the horizon.

A college student's life completely changed forever after eating leftover Chinese food that made him so sick he had to get his legs and fingers amputated.

For months, local prosecutors took no action after three white men jumped in their trucks and chased Ahmaud Arbery, a young Black jogger, through their Georgia neighborhood before shooting him to death.

A man who was arrested in Amsterdam after holding a person hostage at gunpoint for several hours in an Apple flagship store on Tuesday night had explosives on his body, Amsterdam police said on Wednesday.

Two major winter storms will dump heavy snow and blow fierce winds in the Midwest, New England and Southwestern United States on Tuesday and into the next couple of days, wreaking havoc on road travel while improving ski conditions in parts of Colorado.

This U.S. state is the only one that has not yet lifted its indoor face mask mandate despite having over 75% of its residents vaccinated.

COVID cases and related deaths are dropping dramatically across the country as the spread of the virus, specifically the Omicron variant, dies out. 

In some of the largest metropolitan areas in the U.S., it is becoming cheaper per month to buy a house as a first-time home buy than to rent a similarly sized unit.

A new report found that 64% of men who are unemployed at this age struggle to get a job because of a prior criminal activity.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday took up a major new legal fight pitting religious beliefs against LGBT rights, agreeing to hear an evangelical Christian web designer's free speech claim that she cannot be forced under a Colorado anti-discrimination law to produce websites for same-sex marriages.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a web designer's free speech claim that she cannot be forced under a Colorado anti-discrimination law to produce websites for same-sex marriages, a practice she opposes on religious grounds.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday brought a formal end to former President Donald Trump's request to block the release of White House records sought by the Democratic-led congressional panel investigating last year's deadly attack on the Capitol by a mob of his supporters.

Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp, the blank-check company behind former U.S.

The leading photo on the website of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the annual get-together of American rightwing notables, is of a grinning Donald Trump.

Hank the Tank, a Lake Tahoe bear, has yet to be captured after his food-searching spree that damaged more than 30 properties in the area. There have been talks of euthanizing the bear due to safety concerns as a final resort.

U.S. stocks further trimmed losses on Tuesday afternoon after U.S.

After the girl's tragic death, the family now urges others of her age to get vaccinated against the virus.

During the arrest, one of the officers used an anti-trans slur, the woman's attorney said.

Jurors reached a verdict on Tuesday in the federal hate-crimes trial of three white men convicted of state murder charges for chasing down and killing Ahmaud Arbery, a young Black man out jogging through their Georgia neighborhood.