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The proposals would have restricted fishing and other human activities in some coastal areas.

Germany is to earmark up to 900 million euros ($983 million) in subsidies to expand electric vehicle charging stations for households and companies, the transport ministry said on Thursday.

A prominent U.S. lawsuit to ban the abortion pill mifepristone has focused on the drug's safety and approval process. But the outcome may ultimately rest on a different issue: whether Ingrid Skop, an anti-abortion doctor in Texas, and other physicians behind the lawsuit can justify suing in the first place.

A professor and two students were stabbed during a gender studies class at the University of Waterloo in Canada on Wednesday, and one person is in custody, authorities said.

The UK government’s plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda has been ruled unlawful by the Court of Appeal.The five-year trial - announced in April 2022 -...

In Colombia's southern Guaviare department, on the doorstep of the Amazon, cattle ranchers are engaged in a practice that belies their jungle-wrecking reputation. They plant trees.

Fourteen Russia experts on what we learned about Putin over the past few days, and what the attempted mutiny could mean for Russia and the West.

A New Jersey man has been sentenced to more than six years in federal prison after exchanging sexually explicit videos and images with a 13-year-old New York girl and later paying USUS$20,000 in bitcoin to have her killed, eventually calling it off.

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have observed for the first time the faint ripples caused by the motion of black holes that are gently stretching and squee...

Scientists want to be able to predict which bird flus are able to make the jump into people.

US medical professionals will conduct a formal analysis of presumed remains, the coast guard said.

(WASHINGTON) – Today, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters walked away from the national bargaining table and officially demanded UPS exchange its last, best, and final offer no later than June 30. The Teamsters gave UPS a one-week notice on Tuesday …

A study, out of the University of Waterloo in partnership with Stand.earth, analyzed the public equity portfolios of eight major U.S. public pension funds to determine the effect divesting from their energy holdings would have had. In total, researchers estimate that the pension funds would have seen a return on their investments that was 13% higher on average.

Another analysis of the same eight U.S. public pension funds included in the report found that the carbon footprint that would have been reduced had they divested 10 years ago is equivalent to the emissions for powering 35 million homes per year.

The food depicted in the roughly 2,000-year-old fresco did not include cheese and tomato but could be a “distant ancestor” of pizza, archaeologists said.

The video showed the officer by his car in the mall parking lot having a pleasant chat with children and a woman when gunshots suddenly rang out.

At least 57 others were injured, including Colombian nationals and a leading Ukrainian writer.

The incident occurred Sunday after an unidentified woman went overboard on the Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas cruise ship, according to officials.

At least nine cats in Poland have died of H5N1 bird flu, officials confirmed on Monday as they continue to investigate an unusual cluster of illnesses affecting dozens of cats across the country. Out of 11 samples tested so far, 9 have come back positive for H5N1 bird flu, according to a statement from the […]

Republicans who do not speculate about war with Mexico may be perceived as weak.

High temperatures could lead to 235,000 ER visits and 56,000 hospital admissions for heat-related conditions annually.

All five Mississippi deputy sheriffs accused of beating and sexually assaulting two Black men before shooting one of them in the mouth have been fired.

South Korea switches to the international way of counting age, starting from 0 at birth and adding 1 on every birthday, instead of starting from 1 at birth and adding 1 on Jan 1st every year.

There is yet another system used in South Korea for conscription, school entrance and calculating the legal age to drink alcohol and smoke - start from 0 at birth and add 1 on every Jan 1st. This one's still in effect though.

Pieces of the submersible are seen for the first time after being recovered from the Atlantic.

Daniel Penny, 24, denies second-degree manslaughter and negligent homicide in the death of Jordan Neely.

A group of more than 400 actors — including Oscar winners Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence and Rami Malek — are urging SAG-AFTRA leaders to take a harder line as contract talks reach a c…