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Senior schools reopened in the Indian state of Karnataka on Wednesday a week after authorities closed them in the face of protests against a ban on female students wearing the hijab Muslim head covering in class.

"The more we all get vaccinated and take precautions, the more we can protect all our kids, " U.S Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said while sharing the news about his daughter's COVID-19 diagnosis.

Paislee Shultis, 6, was "in good health" and has since been reunited with her legal guardian as well as her older sister, police said.

The outdoor music festival will return in April for the first time in two years after two cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 54-year-old former anti-vaxxer from Maryland spent more than a month in the hospital with COVID-19.

A dozen undocumented migrants on Mexico's southern border sewed their mouths shut on Tuesday in a bid to convince the country's immigration authority to grant them passage toward the U.S.

World stocks crept higher on Wednesday for the second day in a row and safe-haven assets such as government bonds lost ground, though market moves were checked by Western scepticism that Russia had indeed pulled back troops from Ukraine's borders.

The botched baptisms were performed by a priest of the Diocese of Phoenix in Arizona.

Sarah Palin faces a narrow path ahead if she wants to use her defamation case against the New York Times as a vehicle to challenge broad U.S.

P.J. O'Rourke, the American journalist, political satirist and best-selling author who rose to fame as editor-in-chief of the now-defunct humor magazine National Lampoon, has died at the age of 74.

The U.S. government said it faces "significant harm" if an appeals court fails to reverse an injunction barring enforcement of Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for government workers.

Police arrested two sisters on multiple misdemeanor charges for being involved in a major physical fight at the park.

Three U.S. senators on Tuesday called on the Department of Labor to help states find alternatives to identity verification provider ID.me for screening people seeking unemployment aid because they said its technology raises serious privacy and civil liberties concerns.

Three U.S. senators on Tuesday called on the Department of Labor to help states find alternatives to identity verification provider ID.me for screening people seeking unemployment aid because they said its technology raises serious privacy and civil liberties concerns.

Netflix’s ‘Tinder Swindler’ has shone a light on the shady and heartbreaking world of online romance scams, a world that the FBI says cost Americans $1 billion last year.

Having lost at trial on Tuesday, Republican Sarah Palin has signaled she could go all the way to the U.S.

U.S. President Joe Biden made an impassioned appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin to step back from war with Ukraine on Tuesday, speaking starkly of the "needless death and destruction" Moscow could cause and international outrage Putin would face.

A U.S. patient with leukemia has become the first woman and the third person to date to be cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to the virus that causes AIDS, researchers reported on Tuesday.

A U.S. jury on Tuesday ruled against Sarah Palin in her libel lawsuit accusing the New York Times of defaming her in a 2017 editorial that incorrectly linked her to a mass shooting, after the presiding judge already had said he would dismiss the case regardless of the verdict.

A U.S. federal jury on Tuesday ruled against Sarah Palin in her lawsuit accusing the New York Times of defaming her in a 2017 editorial that incorrectly linked her to a mass shooting, after the presiding judge said he would dismiss the case regardless of the verdict.

A U.S. jury on Tuesday ruled against Sarah Palin in her libel lawsuit accusing the New York Times of defaming her in a 2017 editorial that incorrectly linked her to a mass shooting, after the presiding judge already had said he would dismiss the case regardless of the verdict.

A U.S. jury on Tuesday ruled against Sarah Palin in her defamation lawsuit against the New York Times over a 2017 editorial that incorrectly linked her to a mass shooting, after the presiding judge said he would dismiss the case regardless of the verdict.

The U.S Department of Education announced that it was pausing the seizure of filers’ tax returns to pay off any delinquent student debt, a move that will surely be a relief to the nearly 9 million people currently behind on debt repayments.

The United States is expected to experience as much sea level rise from climate change over the next 30 years as occurred in the previous century, according to a Tuesday report led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Sea levels around the United States will rise up to a foot over the next 30 years due to climate change, as much as they have risen in the previous century, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) projected in a report on Tuesday.

Vaccinating pregnant women against the coronavirus may help prevent COVID-19 hospitalizations in infants after they are born, especially if the expecting mothers got the shots later in their pregnancy, U.S.

In a historic victory, the families of victims of the 2013 Sandy Hook massacre reached a legal settlement with rifle manufacturer Remington on Tuesday after a nearly 10-year saga of legal battles. 

Tou Thao, one of the three former Minneapolis police officers on trial charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights, said he was inspired to join the police force while growing up in a poor refugee family as he took the stand in his own defense on Tuesday.

Tou Thao, one of the three former Minneapolis police officers on trial charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights, told a jury officers were trained to use a knee near a person's neck as a means of restraint as he took the stand in his own defense on Tuesday.