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Massachusetts' top court on Tuesday rejected a bid to ask voters whether app-based ride-share and delivery drivers should be treated as independent contractors rather than employees, in a setback for companies like Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc.

The World Health Organization will convene an emergency committee on Thursday next week to assess whether the monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern.

Prices for wholesale goods in the United States charged forward by 10.8% in May from the same time last year, the latest reminder that inflation is continuing to rampage across the economy. 

Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday unanimously recommended that the agency authorize Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine for children and teens aged 6 to 17 years of age.

"We heard the shooting and then we got scared and everyone started crying," a young camper said. "They just told us to stay quiet--there were showers in the men's restrooms so we hid in there."

The 17-year-old boy is receiving mental health counseling after he was arrested for threatening to "end" people who hurt him.

U.S. President Joe Biden defended his economic track record at a union convention in Philadelphia on Tuesday amid rising recession fears on Wall Street, as he seeks to deepen relationships with organized labor and improve his approval ratings among Democrats.

U.S. President Joe Biden blasted Wall Street and Republicans, while making a full-throated defense of his economic plans to thousands of union members in Philadelphia on Tuesday, as he seeks to improve dismal approval ratings amid high inflation and fears of recession.

U.S. President Joe Biden will attend a union convention in Philadelphia on Tuesday as he seeks to deepen relationships with organized labor and improve his approval ratings and popularity among Democrats, which have taken a hit recently.

Republican U.S. Representative Tom Rice, who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump after the Jan.

Republican U.S. Representative Tom Rice, who voted to impeach Donald Trump after the Jan.

Republican U.S. Representatives Tom Rice and Nancy Mace waited on Tuesday to learn their political fates in South Carolina after closely watched primary election campaigns against two challengers endorsed by former President Donald Trump.

Republican U.S. Representatives Tom Rice and Nancy Mace waited to learn their political fates as polls closed in South Carolina on Tuesday, after closely watched campaigns against two party challengers endorsed by former President Donald Trump.

Former President Donald Trump's efforts to punish his perceived enemies will be tested in South Carolina on Tuesday as Republican U.S.

The crypto market's a hot mess, leaving many investors struggling to turn a buck. Enter the arbitrageurs.

As 10-metre high mounds of sunflower meal smoulder among the blackened ruins of one of Ukraine's top agricultural terminals, farmers in this front-line region are scrambling to survive a harvest under Russian fire.

Two horrific massacres in recent weeks have succeeded in bringing Democrats and Republicans close to the most significant federal legislation addressing U.S. gun violence in three decades.

Global stocks and bonds gyrated in choppy trade on Tuesday after the prior day's market rout, while investors braced for a U.S.

South Korea's unionised truckers and the transport ministry reached a tentative agreement on Tuesday on minimum pay guarantees in a late night deal ending a nationwide strike that crippled ports and industrial hubs, the two parties said.

A nationwide strike by truck drivers in South Korea has disrupted shipments to China of a key cleaning agent used by makers of semiconductor chips, the Korean International Trade Association (KITA) said on Tuesday.

The author of “How to Murder Your Husband” was sentenced to life in prison for murdering her husband.

Record flooding and rockslides unleashed by an unprecedented burst of heavy rains prompted the rare closure on Monday of all five entrances to Yellowstone National Park at the start of the summer tourist season, the park superintendent said.

Record flooding and rockslides following a burst of heavy rains prompted the rare closure on Monday of all five entrances to Yellowstone National Park at the start of the summer tourist season, the park superintendent said.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will visit the Rosebud Sioux Tribe next week in South Dakota to discuss COVID-19 aid funding and make good on her pledge last year to visit a Native American nation, Treasury and tribal officials said on Monday.

Ukraine said on Tuesday its forces were still holding out inside Sievierodonetsk and trying to evacuate civilians, after Russia destroyed the last bridge to the devastated eastern city in a potential turning point in one of the war's bloodiest battles.

Extreme weather in the U.S. this week has caused hazardous flooding at Yellowstone National Park, as well as a massive heatwave that is now moving east along with wildfires.

The police will investigate the Proud Boys for hate crimes in California after a group of them disturbed a "Drag Queen Story Hour" event at a local library.

Walt Disney Co has been unable to obtain permission to show its new Pixar movie "Lightyear" in 14 Middle Eastern and Asian countries, a source said on Monday, and the animated film appeared unlikely to open in China, the world's largest movie market.