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The U.S. Park Police on Thursday named Pamela Smith as its new chief, making her the first Black woman to lead the 230yearold law enforcement agency.

The number of monarch butterflies that showed up at their winter resting grounds in central Mexico decreased by about 26% this year, and four times as many trees were lost to illegal logging, drought and other causes, making 2020 a bad year for the butter...

Albanias interior minister on Thursday said he was in Lebanon looking to repatriate more Albanians related to other nationals who had joined Islamic extremist groups in Syria and Iraq.

The Metropolitan Opera is replacing Robert Lepage's controversial production of Wagner's Ring Cycle with a new staging by British director Richard Jones.

One of Kentucky's top GOP lawmakers has filed legislation to ban some noknock warrants nearly a year after the death of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who was shot in her home multiple times by police during a botched drug raid in Louisville.

The US President also warned of the costs of complacency in the face of such staggering loss.

It is time for Jeep to stop using the Cherokee Nation's name on its Cherokee and Grand Cherokee SUVs, the chief of the Oklahomabased tribe said.

States redoubled their efforts to get the coronavirus vaccine into arms Monday after last week's winter weather closed clinics, slowed vaccine deliveries and forced tens of thousands of people to miss their shots all while the nation drew close to record...

A recreational marijuana marketplace, cannabis decriminalization and looser penalties for underage possession of the drug and alcohol became law Monday in New Jersey, more than three months after voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot question to legaliz...

An Arkansas police officer was hospitalized in stable condition Sunday after being shot during a confrontation at a McDonald's restaurant with a man who was kidnapping a 14yearold North Carolina girl, authorities said.

All adults in Britain will be offered a first shot of a COVID19 vaccine by the end of July, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday ahead of a planned announcement on the cautious reopening of the economy from lockdown.

Donald Trump will be making his first postpresidential appearance at a conservative gathering in Florida next weekend.

Debris from a commercial airliner fell onto Denver suburbs during an emergency landing Saturday, with one very large piece narrowly missing a home. The plane landed safely and nobody aboard or on the ground was reported hurt, authorities said.

It is for the very first time that those wronged by Pakistan and China come together in France to raise their concerns against the Pakistan deep state and its support to terrorism in the region.

Tanden, 50, chief executive of the Center for American Progress, a liberal Washington think-tank, has been an outspoken critic of former president Donald Trump. 

The Air Force inspector general will do a second investigation into racial and ethnic disparities across the force, service leaders said Friday, expanding the review to include gender and additional racial categories such as Asian and American Indian.