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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said on Wednesday that he believes tech companies that banned President Trump from various social media platforms was a move that…
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said on Wednesday that he believes tech companies that banned President Trump from various social media platforms was a move that…
The Flint Water Plant tower in Flint, Mich., where drinking water became tainted after the city switched from the Detroit system and began drawing from…
Hundreds of National Guard troops hold inside the Capitol Visitor’s Center to reinforce security at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday. It comes a week…
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, shown here at a 2019 rally in Moscow, says he plans to return to Russia. Dmitri Lovetsky/AP hide caption toggle…
Don Brown has been driving a school bus for more than 20 years in the Chicago area. And for all that time, he’s noticed one…
The Greater Sacramento Region of California lifted its regional stay at home order Tuesday after a month-long shutdown. The order restricted most California residents from…
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., seen here during a press conference in December, announced Tuesday that she will vote to impeach President Trump. Drew Angerer/Getty Images…
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has been in power since 1986. His police chief has warned that anyone causing trouble on election day “will regret being…
President Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One upon departure Tuesday at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. The president is traveling to Texas…
In January 2016, armed militants led by Ammon Bundy, seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon in an attempt to control US public lands.…
King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah’s suspended the national parliament and state legislatures for an unspecified period of time under the nation’s new virus restrictions.…
Bill Belichick at Gillette Stadium on earlier this month. The New England Patriots head coach turned down the nation’s highest civilian honor from the president…
Members of the Capitol Police are under investigation for their actions as rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday. An unspecified number of officers…
Armed protesters congregate at the Michigan state Capitol in Lansing on October 17, 2020. Monday, the Capitol Commission voted to ban open carry in common…
Protesters gather near the the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind., on Aug. 28, 2020, ahead of the scheduled execution of Keith Dwayne Nelson,…
Seniors and first responders waited in line to receive a COVID-19 vaccine at the Lakes Regional Library n Fort Myers, Fla., on Dec. 30. Octavio…
Dr. Lorraine MacDonald, right, the medical examiner in Rutherford County, Tennessee, talks to a public health worker giving shots at the county’s mass vaccination site,…
At a bus stop on Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest in Washington, D.C., a notice from the FBI seeks information about people pictured during the riot at…
Police and security forces attempt to hold back a mob of pro-Trump extremists as they storm the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday. Roberto Schmidt/AFP…
Georgia Sens.-elect Rev. Raphael Warnock (left) and Jon Ossoff before a campaign stop on Jan. 4. While the pair ran as a ticket, Warnock garnered…
Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. Julio Cortez/AP hide caption toggle caption Julio…
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un speaks at the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of Pyongyang General Hospital on March 17, 2020, North Korea. API/Gamma-Rapho via…
On Aug. 2, Officers Darian Dasko and Madisen Moen misidentified Brittney Gilliam’s SUV license plate as one that matched that of a stolen out-of-state motorcycle.…
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks during a Senate debate on whether to confirm the Electoral College vote, after protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.…
President Trump’s Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, has been permanently suspended, the company announced. Twitter/Screenshot by NPR Twitter has permanently suspended President Trump from Twitter over a…
President Trump arrives on the South Lawn of the White House last month. Al Drago/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Al Drago/Getty Images President Trump…
A medic wearing full protective gear checks a woman who might have contracted coronavirus inside an emergency room at the Rafik Hariri Hospital on Nov.…
With coronavirus cases surging in December, restaurants, movie theaters and other businesses that rely on in-person traffic struggled, weighing on the U.S. job market. OLIVIER…
Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Chinese Internet giant Alibaba, hasn’t been seen in public in months after criticizing government regulators. Philippe Lopez/AFP via Getty…
U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced her resignation on Thursday. Matt York/AP hide caption toggle caption Matt York/AP U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced her…
Pro-Trump protesters gathered in front of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. On social media sites both fringe and mainstream, right-wing extremists made plans for violence…
Dylan Costello (right), 25, and 28-year-old Bobby Manson, construction workers from Quincy, Mass., are all in for Trump but say they don’t support what the…
Supporters of President Donald Trump, including Jake Angeli (center), a QAnon supporter known for his painted face and horned hat, standing inside the U.S. Capitol…
Merrick Garland (center), who’s seen here in 2018, is President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to be U.S. attorney general. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption…
Italian papers show the chaotic scenes from Washington, with one headline declaring “The End.” Others proclaim, “Gunshots on Democracy” and “USA – Day of the…
Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday, where he declared a state of emergency for Tokyo and neighboring…
A Trump flag flies over the grounds of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building, breaking windows and clashing with…
Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., announced Wednesday evening that she would no longer object to the Electoral College results from her state. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images…
Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, pictured in September, was in the U.S. Capitol complex Wednesday as pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol building. Alex Brandon/AP…
Caribou graze on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Trump administration has held the first oil lease sale in the refuge.…
President Trump arrives to speak to supporters near the White House on Wednesday. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via…
A bottle of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is shown before being used last month in Topeka, Kan. The European Medicines Agency has recommended authorizing the drug…
Democrats could take narrow control of the U.S. Senate if Jon Ossoff defeats Republican David Perdue. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption toggle caption Patrick Semansky/AP Democrats…
House Republican Rep. Kevin Brady announced Tuesday night that he had tested positive for the coronavirus. More than 50 members of Congress have contracted the…
In the Tuesday order President Trump suggested such software poses “an unacceptable risk to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.”…
By the end of the day, more people received an injection on Monday than have been vaccinated since the start of the vaccine program on…
SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, shown in red, have heavily infected a cell in this colorized scanning electron micrograph. NIAID/NIH/Flickr hide caption toggle caption NIAID/NIH/Flickr SARS-CoV-2 virus…
Then-Vice President Joe Biden presides over a joint session of Congress in January 2017 to name Donald Trump formally as president-elect. Cliff Owen/AP hide caption…
President-elect Joe Biden campaigned in Atlanta for Senate candidates Raphael Warnock (center) and Jon Ossoff (left). President Trump also traveled to Georgia to campaign for…
U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak’s resignation comes just days after a phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was made…
The coronavirus crisis in Los Angeles County hospitals has become so bad that ambulance services have been told not to transfer patients with a low…
The FDA has learned of reports that some health care facilities are trying to stretch the number of limited doses by cutting them in half,…
A demonstrator hands out a sign about the 2020 census outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in 2019. The Census Bureau is projecting…
A family gather around the television in Liverpool, England, on Monday to watch Prime Minister Boris Johnson speak to the nation about the new lockdown.…
Rep. Devin Nunes, a staunch defender of President Trump, is being awarded the Medal of Freedom, the White House announced on Monday. Patrick Semansky/AP hide…
Journalist Mariusz Kowalewski quit his job at Poland’s national public broadcaster TVP after editors asked him to follow an outspoken critic of the country’s ruling…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces 18 counts related to illegally obtaining, receiving and disclosing classified information in 2010. He is accused of conspiring to hack…
Surrounded by Army cadets, President Trump watches the Army-Navy football game at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., on Dec. 12. Andrew Harnik/AP…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will lead a tighter majority this congressional session after the Democrats lost seats in the November election. Erin Scott/Pool/AFP via Getty…
Norman Einspruch, 88, a cardiology patient at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Fla., receives his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 30. Eva…
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is seen during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in November. Cruz and several other Republicans are calling for a commission to…
“You would be respected if this thing could be straightened out before [Tuesday’s Senate runoff elections],” President Trump urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger,…
Ashwani Sheoran, 41, says that when he worked as pharmacist at different Walmarts, he spoke up about the handling of opioid prescriptions and was told…
Growing up in the 1930s in a small, marshy town in the Calabrian region of Italy, Rose Frusciante was constantly bombarded by mosquitoes. But one…
A record number of women, racial minorities and members of the LGBTQ community make the 117th Congress the most diverse in history. ERIC BARADAT/AFP via…
Police break up a rave in Lieuron in northwestern France. Some 2,500 partygoers attended an illegal New Year rave, violently clashing with police who failed…
Ambulances are parked outside the NHS Nightingale hospital at the ExCeL center in east London on Friday. Hospitals in the U.K. are preparing for an…
In this handout photo provided by the Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Department, Lisa Montgomery appears in a booking photo from 2004. Getty Images hide caption toggle…
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is among those promising to challenge the Jan. 6 vote to certify the Electoral College results. Susan Walsh/AP hide…
Pedro Pierluisi takes office as governor amid the island’s ongoing efforts to claw itself out of an economic crisis and recover from natural disasters. Eric…
A health worker gets ready to take samples from people to test for COVID-19 as another registers them at a marketplace last month in New…
The final restoration project by the nonprofit Advancing Women Artists group features works by Violante Ferroni, an 18th century prodigy about whom little is known…
Supporters of President Trump bang on the glass and chant slogans outside the room where absentee ballots for the 2020 general election were counted at…
Health care worker Demetra Ransom comforts a patient in the COVID-19 ward at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas. on Dec. 4. The U.S.…
Rafael Mariano Grossi, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, attends a press conference at the agency’s U.N. headquarters in Vienna last November.…
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas (right) speaks during a Dec. 3 news conference on Capitol Hill. Gohmert and other Republicans have filed suit to give Vice…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., at the Capitol on Wednesday. The Senate voted Friday to override President Trump’s veto on the annual defense bill.…
When lockdown went into effect earlier this year, many people turned to TikTok to pass the time. Like, a lot of people: the short-video platform…
The rollout of vaccines for COVID-19 has been slower than expected. Reasons include local logistics, lack of funding and staffing struggles during the winter holidays.…
With COVID-19 cases still soaring across the U.S., it can be tempting to just ride the winter out on the couch, binging on Netflix. But…
Grafton, Wis., police officials said the now-fired pharmacist admitted he removed the vials of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from refrigeration to render them useless. Elise…
The Florida Department of Health said officials are working alongside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to figure out how a 20-something-year-old man contracted…
In late 2019, the patient’s choice to move to an assisted living facility seemed like a good idea — a chance for more social interaction…
Hurricane Laura sends large waves crashing on a beach in Cameron, La., on August 26, as an offshore oil rig is seen in the distance.…
San Antonio Spurs assistant coach Becky Hammon made NBA history Wednesday, becoming the first woman to lead a team in the regular season. She’s seen…
Chief Medical Officer Doyle Coleman begins to layer on protective gear to treat a COVID-19 patient while talking with pharmacist Sami Swisher. That gear includes…
President-elect Joe Biden has named Jen Psaki to be his White House press secretary. Psaki was State Department spokeswoman and White House communications director during…
Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine must be kept between 36° to 46°F. The vials can remain at room temperature for up to 12 hours. Charlie Riedel/AP hide…
U.S. Agency for Global Media CEO Michael Pack is seeking to retain control over networks such as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty even after the incoming…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the first known case of the new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus in the nation’s most populated…
George Blake, a former British spy and double agent in service of the Soviet Union, in Moscow in 2006. STR/AP File Photo hide caption toggle…
Dr. Gagandeep Kang, an infectious diseases researcher at the Christian Medical College in Vellore, India, says India has “dodged a bullet” in the pandemic. Gagandeep…
A woman wearing a protective face mask walks by the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region office building in Beijing in June following the…
The U.K. approved the use of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday amid the nation’s rising coronavirus case count. WPA Pool/Getty Images hide caption toggle…
A screengrab of surveillance footage shows the recreational vehicle used in the Christmas day bombing in Nashville, Tennessee. The girlfriend of the man who carried…
Two more Louisville police officers have been told they will be fired in the wake of the death of Breonna Taylor, whose image is seen…
In this Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, people gather in Jefferson Square in Louisville, awaiting word on charges against police officers in the death of Breonna…
President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen theater, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/AP President-elect Joe…
American Airlines Flight 718, a Boeing 737 Max, takes off from Miami International Airport on its way to New York on Thursday — the plane’s…
Jose Paéz (right), who migrated from Venezuela, pleads with a Colombian police officer. He was detained with about 50 other people at a roadblock in…
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