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Seven months have passed since South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced a plan to increase the number of doctors. Trainee doctors walk...

Torrential rains in Central Europe have forced massive evacuations in the hardest hit areas in the Czech Republic, where floods reached extr...

Research shows that a toxic mix of past traumas and the stresses of resettlement puts refugee kids at significantly higher risk of long term...

Much of the food supply in the U.S. goes uneaten, which contributes to climate change. Some states have tried to cut food waste in landfills...

The five-day trip, funded by internet entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, broke several records including the first-ever commercial spacewalk using...

Three Americans, two Spaniards and a Czech citizen were arrested after Venezuelan officials accused them of coming to the South American cou...

Hundreds of people in Turkey attended the funeral for a Turkish American woman who was shot dead by Israeli troops in the Israeli-occupied W...

As Vaux’s Swifts migrate south, they roost together in a chimney, drawing crowds(Image credit: Celeste Noche)

Iran launched a satellite into space with a rocket built by the country's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, state-run media reported.

The presidential office was first envisioned to be more like a clerk's job, and in its earliest incarnation, it was almost unseemly to be pe...

The U.S. State Department accuses a Kremlin news outlet of working hand-in-hand with the Russian military and running fundraising campaigns...

The three wildfires that have ravaged the mountains east of L.A., destroying dozens of homes, injuring a dozen people and burning more than...

Despite days of warnings that critical fire weather was coming, the report found “no evidence” of Hawaii officials making preparations for t...

A military court in the DRC sentenced US citizens and dozens of others for their role in a failed coup attempt in May.(Image credit: Samy Nt...

In Australia, a federal election may still be months away, but immigration — in particular the number of foreign students — is already a foc...

A war and famine in Sudan have displaced over 10 million people, with no sign of letting up. It’s the largest displacement crisis in the wor...

The superstition of Friday the 13th isn’t as old as you think. Here are some of the potential origins of unlucky days around the world.(Imag...

Sabin Howard's sculpture, A Soldier's Journey, features 38 human figures meant to tell the story of a single “doughboy," a nickname used for...

The Security Council is the United Nations' most powerful body, with the ability to impose sanctions and authorize the use of force. There a...

New White House rules would close a tax loophole that lets Shein and Temu cheaply ship from China to American shoppers. The Biden administra...

In a press conference Friday, former President Donald Trump repeated false conspiracy theories about immigrants eating pets in Ohio, which h...

Justin Timberlake pleaded guilty to impaired driving, resolving the criminal case stemming from his arrest in the Hamptons. “I did not live...

Arkansas is the only holdout state that has not pursued the Biden administration's offer to extend Medicaid coverage to new moms for a year...

Congolese athletes Mireille Nganga and sprinter Emmanuel Grace Mouambako, as well as a guide accompanying Mouambako, were reported missing...

The 26-year-old left Thursday night's game after he leaned headfirst into a tackle and added to an already worrying history of brain injury,...