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Eleven passengers were missing after a blaze engulfed a ferry sailing from Greece to Italy early on Friday while an operation was under way to try to rescue two people trapped in the ship's garage, the Greek coastguard said.

California Governor Gavin Newsom presented a plan on Thursday to confront COVID-19 beyond its pandemic phase

The number of deaths represents less than 1% of all fully vaccinated people in the state.

A grand jury in Austin, Texas, has indicted several police officers for using excessive force during racial justice protests in 2020, authorities said on Thursday.

The COVID-positive child had been placed on ECMO for more than a week.

The U.S. government aims to open a new center in Northern Virginia to receive additional Afghan evacuees, according to four sources familiar with the matter, although even before any official announcement the local sheriff in the area raised concerns about the plan.

U.S. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday endorsed a primary challenger to Republican Representative Liz Cheney, a prominent critic of former President Donald Trump.

There have so far been four complaints of Cronobacter sakazakii and Salmonella infections in connection with the products.

Donald Trump's new social media platform promises to promote "open, free and honest global conversations without discrimination against ideology."

The erroneous website sold a variety of pro-Trump merchandise, including camouflage caps and flags.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Friday that it would take up to three months to stabilise a worsening COVID-19 pandemic that has overwhelmed health facilities and forced the postponement of an upcoming leadership election.

Dallas Cowboy's executive was accused of entering the cheerleaders dressing room and taking photos of them unchanging. A confidential settlement shows that the team paid $2.4 million to the cheerleaders.

The ruling is the latest legal blow to the 75-year-old as he fights numerous cases that threaten to complicate any bid for another run at the White House in 2024.

Misinformation about science is increasingly prevalent and a significant public health threat that the U.S.

The full U.S. Congress will be invited to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address on March 1, a year after the invitation list to his address to Congress was radically cut back to 200 due to the pandemic, officials said on Thursday.

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday ordered a new review of a decision not to block United Airlines from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for workers.

A powerful winter storm was barreling through the eastern half of the United States on Thursday, bringing a variety of weather threats to the area that included heavy snow, damaging thunderstorms and the potential of isolated tornadoes.

The Department of Education has forgiven more than $415 million in student debt from 16,000 student borrowers who were defrauded by for-profit universities.

A Colorado elections clerk was sued on Thursday after he copied data from voting machines with the help of two men with ties to groups supporting the false conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was stolen from former Republican President Donald Trump.

Loretta Lynch has a long history of service to the U.S. and law enforcement. Now, she represents the NFL in a class-action lawsuit brought by former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores who alleges unfair and discriminatory hiring practices by multiple teams in the league.

Prominent civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton said on Thursday that Amir Locke was killed for being Black in America, telling mourners at a church in Minneapolis Thursday that "enough is enough." .

Hundreds of people are expected to gather on Thursday to mourn Amir Locke, a Black man killed by law enforcement in a Minneapolis apartment during a no-knock raid, the latest in a series of killings to spark outrage over police treatment of racial minorities.

The family of a Black teenager who was pinned to the ground and arrested by New Jersey police following a fight with a white teenager at a local mall has retained the attorney in the George Floyd wrongful death case, Benjamin Crump, to represent them.

The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out at the United Nations Security Council on Thursday how Washington believes Russia could seek to invade Ukraine, warning that Moscow was preparing to attack its neighbor in the "coming days." .

The execution of Gilbert Ray Postelle, 35, will take place through a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

Tesla Inc and its Chief Executive Elon Musk on Thursday accused the U.S.

Gilbert Gonzalo Gil of Escondido died Monday at Vista Detention Facility in San Diego.

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