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The leading cause of death among law enforcement officers last year was COVID-19.

Inflation struck a high point in December and reached a level of annual inflation at 7.0%, the highest seen since 1982.

At least 44 people have gotten sick and 15 have been hospitalized across the U.S.

Hundreds of students in New York City want an option to learn virtually as the city grapples with an increase in COVID-19 cases.

Omicron has infiltrated grocery stores, leaving shelves empty and resulting in employees taking days off due to sickness or an infected close contact.

All the occupants were able to extricate themselves from the wreck along with the baby.

Some remarkable quotes from Swami Vivekananda's 1883 iconic Chicago speech.

The mother said she could not buy an air ticket for her 21-year-old nonbinary child as the airline only provided male and female options on the booking site.

The Omicron COVID-19 variant is spreading fast, but experts believe cases may decline as fast as the infection numbers climbed.

The top U.S. scientist said eliminating COVID-19 was unrealistic and that "Omicron, with its extraordinary, unprecedented degree of efficiency of transmissibility, will ultimately find just about everybody."

He challenged Democrats holding a razor-thin majority in the Senate to stand up for two bills that would expand access to polls and prevent practices that Biden said are being used to suppress Black and other Democratic-leaning voters.

Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama are getting a second chance to form a union after federal labor officials approved guidance on how to conduct the vote

At least in one part of the country, Americans could potentially receive another stimulus check this year, with plans on them “open-ended.”

Chicago’s standoff between its teachers union and the city has come to an end after a deal was secured that addressed enough of teachers’ concerns to reopen classes starting Wednesday.

Experts warn against claims that Omicron infections are the same as getting the common cold despite the symptoms being mild.

More than 6 billion people consume milk and milk products in the world.

In a statement, the Los Angeles Unified School District said that as of 4 p.m. Jan. 10, a total of 424,230 coronavirus tests were recorded. Of the recorded tests, 65,630 came out positive among students and staff.

“I think this guy needs to buy a lottery ticket because he pretty much cheated death twice within 10 minutes," said one of the officers involved in the harrowing rescue.

The two inmates are requesting that their executions be delayed while waiting for a Feb. 28 trial that should decide whether the state’s three-drug lethal injection death method is constitutional.

Extreme cold weather has triggered a shutdown of COVID-19 testing facilities across Massachusetts as forecasters warn of the arctic blast’s effect extending to the Northeast.

The Missouri woman was first put on a ventilator in February 2021.

The first pig heart transplant took place last week in Maryland.

New York real estate heir Robert Durst, who was suspected of killing at least three people, has died in prison.

California will move in the direction of providing healthcare for all immigrants in the state in a major expansion of the state's coverage for this community.

The man was charged with threatening to kill former President Trump if he refused to leave office if he lost the election.

A woman in New Mexico is facing felony charges after she was caught on camera abandoning her newborn baby in a dumpster.

It was one of the most expensive and destructive years on record after seeing the second most natural disasters strike, something exasperated by worsening climate change.

Part of the U.S. will see extremely cold temperatures on Monday and Tuesday.

The Bronx apartment fire resulted in 17 people dead on Sunday.