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Parents, schools and vaccine clinics rushed to begin inoculating younger adolescents Tuesday after U.S. regulators endorsed Pfizers COVID19 vaccine for children as young as 12, a decision seen as a breakthrough in allowing classroom instruction to resume...

A Kansas man who killed his estranged girlfriend and her two children before setting their house on fire was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole.

Julian Read, whose long career in public relations included briefing the press after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963, has died in Texas. He was 93.

Lockheed Martin Corp is removing contractors working on the maintenance of F16 fighter jets at an Iraqi military base because of security concerns, the company told Reuters on Monday.

In order to avoid a slowdown of the vaccine rollout the committee recommended that the two jabs should be made available for people on a voluntary basis.

Eid will begin on Tuesday or Wednesday this week depending on the sighting of the moon.

The new coronavirus will no longer be circulating in Britain by August, the government's departing vaccine taskforce chief Clive Dix told the Daily Telegraph on Friday.

SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres laid out his vision for a second term as U.N. chief on Friday, calling for a surge in diplomacy for peace, urging the worlds nations to avoid a new type of Cold War, and stressing that in the 21st century everything from...

A police officer and a federal agent were shot and wounded in Tennessee on Friday while looking for a vehicle that had been carjacked, authorities said.

The head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in his first public comments on the war in the countrys Tigray region is sharply criticizing Ethiopias actions, saying he believes it's genocide: "They want to destroy the people of Tigray.

Medical student Natty Jumreornvong has a vaccine and protective gear to shield her from the coronavirus. But she couldn't avoid exposure to the antiAsian bigotry that pulsed to the surface after the pathogen was first identified in China.

Duhan van der Merwe is in line to join a small band of British and Irish Lions who have played against their country of birth after being selected on Thursday for the tour of his native South Africa.

The sheriff was already running late to the office when a woman pleaded for him to stop. She wanted to pay her respects to the families of Sgt. Chris Ward and K9 Deputy Logan Fox, but didn't have much to offer.

The cofounder of the We Build The Wall" project aimed at raising money for a border wall was indicted Thursday on tax charges, adding to the fraud charges he already faces.

More than a thousand migrants who hope to reach the United States were vaccinated against COVID19 on Thursday through a firsttime effort made possible by a private donation of shots from a U.S. company, a shelter director said.

In an apparent industry first, the global insurance company AXA said Thursday it will stop writing cyberinsurance policies in France that reimburse customers for extortion payments made to ransomware criminals.