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One miserable streak will end this weekend.

Five Republican Oklahoma lawmakers urged GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt on Thursday to grant clemency to death row inmate Julius Jones, who is scheduled to be executed next week.

Facing a surge in coronavirus infections that threatens to overwhelm Colorado hospitals, Gov. Jared Polis defied federal guidance on COVID19 booster shots Thursday by issuing an order allowing all state residents 18 and older to get them.

A chemical company has agreed to pay $34 million to compensate residents of a Vermont town for chemical contamination in groundwater and soil.

Britain on Thursday said that officials had pressed Iranian deputy foreign minister Ali Bagheri Kani to release detained dual nationals including BritishIranian aid worker Nazanin ZaghariRatcliffe.

A witness said firefighters were slow to extinguish a vehicle fire sparked by a deadly crash that authorities blame on former Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III, his lawyers say in a court filing.

This kind of battle was good news for the impoverished, sometimes violent Cidade de Deus favela in Rio de Janeiro: a rap duel in a local bar held for the first time since the pandemic hit early last year.

The Chinese leader called for a joint effort to close the "immunisation gap", making Covid-19 vaccines more accessible to developing nations. 

A grizzly bear and her four cubs who are already wellknown to wildlife watchers got even more attention by taking a nighttime stroll through a city in northwestern Wyoming.

The U.S. faces a heightened threat environment from domestic extremists and people inspired by foreign terrorist groups with the approach of the holiday season, the Department of Homeland Security warned Wednesday.

A judge on Wednesday approved a $626 million settlement for Flint residents and others who were exposed to leadcontaminated water.

Flights controls that maneuver the tail wing were jammed when a private jet overran a runway in Houston and burst into flames, federal investigators said Wednesday.

Israel's pandemic advisory board on Wednesday backed administering Pfizer's and BioNTech's COVID19 vaccine to children age 511, health officials said, as a fourth wave of infections subsides nationwide.

A Salvadoran immigrant who admitted fatally shooting four people during a crime spree in northern Nevada in January 2019 pleaded guilty Tuesday to the last two killings in rural Douglas County as part of an overall deal with prosecutors that will spare hi...

Australias prime minister on Wednesday launched a billion Australian dollar ($738 million) investment fund to fast track emerging low emissions technologies including carbon capture and storage as he bolsters his conservative governments green credentials...

Live video coverage will be allowed in the trial of a former suburban Minneapolis police officer charged in the death of Daunte Wright after the judge overseeing the case reversed herself Tuesday, citing the state of the pandemic.