Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has made public a letter he wrote to the heads of each of the United States’ military academies, all of which the senator says have been too rigid in the handling of requests for religious exemptions to the military’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement.
Heavy rains caused mudslides that killed at least 14 people in southern coastal cities and the Baixada Fluminense area of Rio de Janeiro state, according to state and local authorities on Saturday.
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Friday, actor Will Smith announced he was self-sanctioning after having slapped comedian Chris Rock during the 94th Academy Awards last week.
Ukrainian forces were advancing on Saturday into areas north of Kyiv as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused departing Russian soldiers of leaving behind mines.
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Home prices soared nearly 20% from January 2021 to January 2022. Meanwhile, mortgage rates recently rose to their highest levels since 2018.
News broke earlier in the week that White House press secretary Jen Psaki would be leaving her position at the White House and would be taking a job with MSNBC.
A Los Angeles court has found a California law mandating that publicly traded companies include people from underrepresented communities on their boards unconstitutional, ruling in favor of a conservative group seeking an injunction against the measure.
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Eleven-year-old Milena Uralova remembers being knocked unconscious and waking up to see her mother Yelena weeping after she was wounded while the family was escaping from the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol two weeks ago.
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A nationwide survey administered by the CDC shows a continued upward trend of youth mental health threats during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gov. Ron DeSantis and his Republican colleagues’ latest response to Disney’s outspoken opposition to the Parental Rights in Education law has been to threaten the repeal of a 55-year-old law that allows Disney to run its own local government in Florida.