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Scotland votes on Thursday in an election that could trigger a showdown with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson over a new independence referendum just five years since the Brexit vote strained the United Kingdom to breaking point.

Texas would ban abortions after as early six weeks before many women know they are pregnant and allow private citizens to enforce the rule through civil lawsuits against doctors and others under a measure given preliminary approval by the GOPdominated s...

With COVID19 vaccine demand declining in the United States, some Canadians facing thirdwave lockdowns are flying south to get inoculated, perhaps months earlier than they would be able to at home.

Lavinia Lavi Mounga had no idea a baby was coming when she went into labor on a flight from her home in Utah to Honolulu last week.

President Reuven Rivlin's announcement on live television gave opposition a chance to end lengthy rule of Netanyahu, who is at the helm since 2009.

A Delaware pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay $12.6 million to resolve allegations that it violated the federal False Claims Act by paying kickbacks.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and six other people who risked their own health and safety to help and protect others during the coronavirus pandemic will receive Profile in Courage awards next month, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation announced Tuesd...

Based on crude license plate messages, one may be forgiven for assuming Maine doesnt give two flips about obscenities.

The Biden administration says a U.S. judge exceeded his authority when he gave federal wildlife officials a May 21 deadline to decide whether to formally propose endangered species protections for a rare desert wildflower at the center of a fight over a p...

Boxer Félix Boxer Verdejo charged with killing woman pregnant with his child, who represented Puerto Rico in the 2012 Olympic Games, has been charged in U.S. federal court with kidnapping and killing a woman who was pregnant with his child, authorities sa...

Novavax said the trials would test 'the efficacy and safety' of the vaccine, with participants receiving either the vaccine candidate or placebo in two doses.

The Danish Health Authority said it concluded that the benefits of using the J&J's Covid-vaccine do not outweigh the risk of possible adverse effects.

Two people were killed and nearly two dozen others were hospitalized after a boat capsized Sunday just off the San Diego coast, authorities said.

The woman, from Durango, was believed to have gone walking with her dogs earlier Friday near Trimble, according to her boyfriend.

Two men suffered nonlifethreatening injuries in a shooting at a shopping mall near Seattle on Saturday in what police described as apparently isolated violence.

It was not immediately clear which routes and air carriers would be affected.