Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has argued that her positive drug test was caused by a mix-up with her grandfather's heart medication, an Olympic official said on Tuesday.
Since the state began administering booster doses, 586 people who received their third shots have been hospitalized with COVID-19.
The firings included workers from the NYPD, Fire Department, Housing Authority and Department of Education.
Stocks on Wall Street and in Europe rebounded on Tuesday while oil prices fell, after Russia indicated it was withdrawing some troops from exercises near Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin said he saw room for further discussion with the West.
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk donated a total of 5,044,000 shares in the world's most valuable automaker to a charity from Nov.
The billionaire e-commerce mogul who last year led the world's first all-private space crew launched into orbit said on Monday he plans to help bankroll up to three more such missions with SpaceX, independent of NASA's human spaceflight program.
The Manhattan federal judge who made the unusual move of saying he would dismiss Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against the New York Times on Monday while jurors were still deliberating is considered a maverick known for tussling with Wall Street regulators and criticizing the U.S.
South Korea's presidential candidates formally began campaigning on Tuesday in what is set to be the tightest race in 20 years between its two main parties, dominated by scandals that have allowed a third challenger to potentially play the role of kingmaker.
Two former Minneapolis police officers, Tou Thao and J.
Faced with truckers' protests popping up across the nation, and hampering cross border trade, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday became the only Canadian leader since his father 50 years ago to declare a state of emergency in peacetime.
Washington, D.C. will no longer require people show proof of COVID-19 vaccination to enter many businesses beginning on Tuesday, its mayor said, joining a slew of local leaders who are dialing back pandemic restrictions as the Omicron wave ebbs.
The accounting firm that handled financial statements of Donald Trump's company dropped it as a client and said it could no longer stand behind a decade of statements, a court filing showed on Monday.
The accounting firm that handled Donald Trump's company's financial statements dropped it as a client and said it could no longer stand behind a decade of statements, a court filing showed on Monday.
A New York City woman was stalked and murdered inside her own apartment in the latest tragic murder to grip the Big Apple amidst fears of rising crime.
Brian Laundrie’s autopsy report reveals disturbing details about the state of his body after he was discovered.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's massive troop buildup along Ukraine's border has left the West struggling to pinpoint if or when he might actually launch a military campaign.
Mayor Bowser made the announcement on Monday saying that the vaccine mandate for businesses would end on Tuesday and the mask mandate would end by March 1.
A former U.S. Navy engineer charged with attempting to sell secrets about nuclear submarines to a foreign power pleaded guilty on Monday as part of a deal with prosecutors.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday advised against travel to six countries and territories including South Korea, Azerbaijan and Belarus due to widespread COVID-19.
The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19.
U.S. passenger airlines carried 670.4 million passengers in 2021, up 83% over 2020 levels but still down significantly from pre-coronavirus pandemic levels, the Transportation Department said on Monday.
U.S. federal judges were the target of more than 4,500 threats and other inappropriate communications last year, the head of the U.S.
A Twitter post from the ATF suggested that heart-broken lovers turn in their partners for illegal gun activity.
Seven state government employee pension funds including CalPERS, the largest U.S.
Based on a ranking of ease of use, ECRI ranked seven at home COVID-19 rapid test kits based on how easy they are to use.
The United States is relocating its Ukraine embassy operations from the capital Kyiv to the western city of Lviv
A flock of about 240,000 chickens owned by Tyson Foods Inc in Kentucky tested positive for a highly lethal form of bird flu, government officials and the company said on Monday, widening an outbreak that threatens the U.S.
Russian mercenaries with ties to Moscow's spies have increased their presence in Ukraine in recent weeks, stoking fears among some NATO members that Russia could try to engineer a pretext for an invasion, three senior Western security sources said.
The chief of the St. Louis Federal Reserve is urging the central bank to raise interest rates at the next month in March and bring an end to what he perceives as an overly accommodative monetary policy.
A U.S. judge on Monday said he will throw out Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against the New York Times after concluding that the newspaper did not in an editorial maliciously link the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican U.S.