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The Australian cites health risks and lack of preparation as the reasons she won't be defending her Grand Slam title.

Temperatures plunged more than 50 degrees overnight as an Arctic air mass drove into the Denver area, bringing a very early winter storm on Tuesday.

Former President Obama offered vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris some tips about running alongside Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. “So tell me about Joe and your relationship with Joe, and what do I ne...

"They're carrying the weight of a lot of voices on their shoulders," Harris said

The Gray Panthers staged rowdy protests against ageism and found common cause with young activists on everything from health care to racial justice. What can they teach us today?

From Trump to Lukashenko, authoritarians are discovering that this isn't their kind of crisis.

Record set early in the season as firefighters battle to contain several wildfires ahead of forecast hot, dry winds Wildfires have burned more than 2m acres (809,000 hectares) in California this year, setting a state rec...

It’s pay to not play. Facebook is offering users money to refrain from using the site and Instagram in the weeks leading up to the bitterly contested November elections. To assess the impact of social media on voting, ...

Trainee doctors and interns walked out weeks ago over gov't reform plans, and as coronavirus cases surged.

President Donald Trump says Pentagon leaders want to keep waging wars in order to keep defense contractors “happy.”

A frat party at the University of New Hampshire attended by more than 100 people who were not wearing masks or social distancing sparked a coronavirus cluster, officials said Monday. Eleven cases of the coronavirus have ...

During the interview round of the 1994 Miss Universe Pageant, the presenter quizzed former Miss Philippines, Charlene Gonzales, about her home country's geography.

Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders dismissed a recent string of scathing accounts from ex-administration officials lambasting President Trump, calling them "disgruntled employees."

The Merseyside salon said masks were not worn by staff as "you can't catch what doesn't exist".

Maria Kolesnikova, the opposition activist leading protests against the autocratic rule of Belarus's president, has been detained at the Belarus-Ukraine border.

The inevitable fallout from last month’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, an annual event that packed nearly 500,000 people into a small town in South Dakota, is becoming clear, and the emerging picture is grim.  According t...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that the bill would focus on health care, education and economic issues.

A Black Lives Matter protester seen taunting Pittsburgh diners denied being the “aggressor” -- saying the viral video only shows one side of the story. Nique Craft was part of a wild mob who harassed white patrons as...

The forced departures highlight souring relations between the two countries and Beijing's increasingly heavy-handed tactics to limit independent journalism.

Power was cut to some 172,000 homes and businesses to try to prevent power lines and other equipment from sparking more blazes in the record-setting fire season.

Martyn Percy exonerated over claims he failed to fully investigate sexual abuse allegations The Church of England has exonerated the head of a prestigious Oxford college after investigating claims that he failed to deal ...

BBC commentator Aatif Nawaz explains how T20 cricket has "fundamentally changed the way cricket is played".