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It is vital to ensure that scientific breakthroughs (like new drugs or vaccines etc) reach ALL the people in need as soon as possible without any delay - if we are to have a public-health impact. Be it Covid vaccines or ...

What has long been the resume of Donald Trump is now the curriculum vitae of Andrew Cuomo. Pot, meet kettle. Shoe, say hello to the other foot.

Jennifer Valente has won gold in the women's omnium, her second medal of the Tokyo Olympics after winning the bronze in the team pursuit.      

As the pandemic took hold, more than 1 million children did not enroll in local schools. Many of them were the most vulnerable: 5-year-olds in low-income neighborhoods.

Two Chicago police officers were shot Saturday night in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side, according to Chicago police.

LAUSD oversight is so lax that a proposed charter school thought that it could get away with hiring an accused felon as Executive Director. ------.

The world's greatest athletes gathered in eerily empty venues for the 32nd edition of the Summer Games, delayed for a full year by the COVID-19 pandemic and chockful of enduring and unprecedented scenes.

In a concerning landmark, the US had topped 100,000 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday -- its highest daily total since the vaccine rollout, federal data show.

Shane Goldsby apologized in an emotional statement to Robert Munger's family after the 26-year-old was sentenced for murdering his sex offender cellmate.

The two unnamed suspects were were babysitting youngster Jazon Gregory were hit with charges of charges of second degree murder for the crime in in Washington state.

The war against Covid-19 is changing, putting into stark relief the deepening divide between countries that have the weapons to fight the virus and those that don't.

Now, there is Gov. Cuomo, facing all-but-certain impeachment amid allegations that he sexually harassed nearly a dozen women.

Cops in Wyoming, Michigan, are backpedaling after handcuffing two African-American men and a 15-year-old African-American teen for touring a house for sale.

The testimony highlights the former president's desire to batter the Justice Department into advancing his personal agenda.

A group of naturists have taken to roaming Sherwood Forest, angering locals who have started a petition to have the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds which runs the park to "stop promoting nudity".

The history-making bot, dubbed Cassie, traversed 5 kilometers, or 3.1 miles, of gravel, sidewalk and fields and completed the course on a single charge in about 53 minutes.

A 70-year-old North Carolina woman had been missing since the middle of June. Almost two months later, she was found buried in concrete.

After two weeks of competition between athletes from all over the world, the closing ceremony officially ended the Tokyo Olympics on Aug. 8, 2021.

The new daily average for U.S. infections has climbed back to about 100,000 as of Saturday, according to CDC data. Latest COVID-19 updates      

"I think if we didn't come up during the Trump administration with the vaccine, you could have 100 million people dead, just like you had in 1917," Trump said in an interview on Fox News that aired Saturday night.

The Taliban has seized control of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, local officials told CNN on Sunday. It is the first major city to fall to the insurgent group since they began their offensive in May, and marks a big blo...

SUNDAY HOMILY: Sad to say, we've reduced the Bread of Life to a silly Wonder Bread. And this at a time in history when acceptance of life's essential unity is necessary for our species' very survival.