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In his campaign for the U.S. Senate in North Carolina, Republican candidate Ted Budd has described himself as a "conservative warrior" and a "liberal agenda crusher." But some of his fellow Republicans worry he is not fighting hard enough.

The U.S. Justice Department and former President Donald Trump's attorneys are due on Friday to jointly file a list of possible candidates to serve as a special master to review records the FBI seized from the former president's Florida estate.

President Joe Biden will make an election-year visit to an overwhelmingly Republican part of Ohio on Friday for the groundbreaking of a semiconductor plant that he will promote as evidence that his economic policies are working.

Canada will accept some 1,000 Afghans who fled the Taliban takeover of their homeland and have been held for months in a makeshift refugee centre in the United Arab Emirates awaiting resettlement to the United States and elsewhere, seven sources said.

The South Carolina Senate on Thursday approved a bill tightening an abortion ban that is blocked by the state's highest court, following two days of fierce debate between anti-abortion Republicans and more moderate lawmakers from both parties.

"Mount Rainier is not erupting - the sort of behavior seen in this video is not unusual": United States Geological Service

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants to inform the public of various reports of cancer found in the scar tissue that forms around breast implants.

A restaurant owner in Virginia has issued an apology after sharing a Sept. 11-themed menu on Facebook.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on Thursday rejected Sunoco LP's request to block efforts to enforce a $155 million judgment against the fuel retailer in a lawsuit accusing it of failing to pay interest on late payments to 53,000 oil-well owners across Oklahoma.

The U.S. ban on exports to China of Nvidia and AMD's flagship artificial intelligence chips will create new business opportunities for domestic startups jockeying for a piece of China's fast-growing data center chip market, industry executives and analysts told Reuters.

The Powerball jackpot was worth an estimated $168.5 million with a cash option of $93 million.

A Los Angeles-based company kicked off on Thursday what it said will be the first large-scale direct air capture (DAC) project to capture and store 5 million tons of carbon dioxide per year by 2030, benefiting from new U.S.

Britain will cap consumer energy bills for two years and funnel billions to prop up power companies, its new leader Liz Truss said on Thursday in a bid to tackle an energy crisis that has Europe and Russia squaring off in a deepening economic war.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Kyiv on Thursday to pledge $2 billion in fresh security assistance, including support the Biden administration hopes will bolster a nascent Ukrainian counteroffensive aimed at pushing back Russian forces in the south and east.

Social media was set ablaze with commentaries on DiCaprio's pattern of dating much younger women after his split with Camila Morrone, his girlfriend of four years.

The 19-year-old suspect posted live footage of himself pointing guns and shooting people on social media throughout Wednesday's shooting spree, police said.

A man spotted what he thought were two garter snakes, but when he looked closely, it dawned on him that it was one snake with two heads.

A push to get more women on U.S. boards has slowed this year, raising concern among recruiters that some firms may have "ticked the gender box" by hitting minimum levels of female representation or moved on to focus on other diversity issues.

Steve Bannon, a onetime top strategist to former U.S.

Too few ships are arriving in Ukraine to quickly clear mountains of grain built up over months of war despite a U.N.-backed sea corridor, threatening to drive up global food prices and leave the country's cash-strapped farmers struggling to plant crops.

Smoke from hundreds of wildfires darkened skies over the Alaskan Interior this summer, with the state experiencing its fastest start to the fire season on record amid hot and dry conditions.

For now, the new booster shots are free of charge for everyone.

The stimulus checks will be equal to up to 70% of the amount of the original rebate sent out by the Pennsylvania government.

Top scientists from leading academic centers are banding together to answer a key question about the root cause of long COVID - whether fragments of the coronavirus persist in the tissues of some individuals.

After an inundation of racist attacks, Amazon Prime Video's "Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power" has released a statement on Twitter expressing that they refuse to ignore or tolerate the "racism, threats, harassment, and abuse" that some of their castmates of color face daily.

Hwang Bun-hee, 74, lives in a pink house near the sea surrounded by a riotous vegetable garden and sounds of birds - but she gets upset whenever she looks at her house, just a few minutes' walk from Wolsong nuclear power plant.

Barack and Michelle Obama attended an official portrait unveiling ceremony hosted by President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden at the White House.

With the hopes of a nation resting on his shoulders, American Frances Tiafoe rose to the occasion on Wednesday by reaching his first Grand Slam semi-final with a 7-6(3) 7-6(0) 6-4 win over Russian Andrey Rublev at the U.S.

Teachers from Seattle Public Schools are on strike for better pay and staffing ratios, among other demands.