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Twitter said on Tuesday that after a three-year hiatus, it will again allow users to apply for the coveted blue check mark. The program was...

Cambridge University Library said Tuesday that two of the naturalist's notebooks have been missing for nearly two decades. Now, the library...

Russia says it "chased off" a U.S. Navy ship in contested territory in the Sea of Japan, according to the Defense Ministry in Moscow.

In the early 2000s, Joe Biden helped bring China and America closer. Now, not so much.(Image credit: Greg Baker/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

With COVID-19 cases soaring across the country, many American are changing their Thanksgiving travel plans. Some are making it a virtual eve...

With COVID-19 cases soaring many American are changing their Thanksgiving plans. Some are making it virtual and others are cancelling it thi...

Starting next month, some travelers going to England could cut their 14-day mandatory quarantine down to five days if a COVID-19 test comes...

Access to fresh food in North Minneapolis has been a struggle for decades. Members of one group are growing food to protect themselves from...

President Trump said on Monday that he is allowing his administration to begin the transition to the Biden presidency, while still not fully...

Elizabeth Hawse, a pediatrician in Lexington, Ky., says she's seen a big increase in the number of children testing positive for the coronav...

President-elect Joe Biden's appointee was previously the deputy director of the CIA and the White House deputy national security advisor. (I...

People who claim that mask mandates deprive them of their personal freedom, Francis says, are "victims only in their own imagination." The b...

President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Alejandro Mayorkas to head the Department of Homeland Security, tapping the Cuban American to revers...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly checks back in with Alaska brewpub owner Matt Tomter to discuss how his business is weathering cold weather with sur...

As more hospitals across the U.S. reach the level of rationing care, NPR explains what that move, called "crisis standards of care," means i...

More than 3 million people went through TSA airport security checkpoints this weekend. That's the most air travelers in one weekend since Ma...

President-elect Joe Biden reportedly plans to nominate Janet Yellen to be Treasury secretary. She would be the first woman to hold the job i...

Three prominent figures in the country's embattled human rights movement were arrested after meeting with European ambassadors. The Egyptian...

The state, in which President-elect Joe Biden is ahead by more than 155,000 votes, is scheduled to certify its election results on Monday af...

Shamima Begum, now 21, left London with two other schoolgirls in 2015 to join the terrorist organization, and is now in a detention camp in...

Ultimately, minor delays in a handful of counties fully certifying their results shouldn't affect the overall certification process statewid...

The president-elect is expected to announce the nomination of Blinken, who served as deputy secretary of state and deputy national security...

Newsom said on Twitter that his children came into contact with a California Highway Patrol officer who tested positive for the virus. He sa...

Previous spikes in South Korea were linked to outbreaks at churches and protests. Health officials say the current wave appears to have no l...

It is the first such meeting between Israeli and Saudi leaders to be reported widely in Israeli media. Netanyahu reportedly met Saudi Crown...