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The World Health Organization said on Thursday its latest investigation into the origins of COVID-19 was inconclusive, largely because data from China is missing, another blow to its years-long effort to determine how the pandemic began.

The vibrant southern French city of Toulouse, home to pan-European industrial champion Airbus, might seem an unlikely prize for the anti-free market, eurosceptic Jean-Luc Melenchon.

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates is warning the world that the next global pandemic could be far more deadly than COVID-19.

A newspaper article about Prince Harry's legal battle with the British government over his security arrangements implied that he had lied and tried to manipulate public opinion, lawyers for Queen Elizabeth's grandson said on Thursday.

Nicholas John Roske, 26, was arrested near the Chevy Chase, Maryland, home of the judge.

As of Thursday, the national average gas price was $4.97 a gallon – another record high for the the U.S.

China's central leadership has given billionaire Jack Ma's Ant Group a tentative green light to revive its initial public offering (IPO), two sources with knowledge of the matter said, in the clearest sign yet Beijing is easing its crackdown on the tech sector.

China's central leadership has given a tentative green light to Jack Ma's Ant Group to revive its initial public offering in Shanghai and Hong Kong, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Thursday.

Authorities have offered a $5,000 reward for tips leading to the arrest of the suspect, described as a "white female, medium build, standing between 5’6” and 5’8” tall.

The IRS has warned people to be wary of text messages, random incoming phone calls, or emails inquiring about bank account information or requesting recipients to click a link or verify data.

Iran on Thursday dealt a near-fatal blow to chances of reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as it began removing essentially all the International Atomic Energy Agency monitoring equipment installed under the deal, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said.

"I really don’t understand what the police are hiding," the mother said. "My son was 13 years old. That’s the key. He was a little boy, and he did not deserve to get shot and killed by a police officer."

A rare bipartisan effort in the U.S. Senate to agree on legislation to address a wave of mass shootings could reach a watershed moment on Thursday as lawmakers decide whether the drive has enough momentum to succeed.

Major retailers like Target Corp and Walmart Inc may be cutting prices to clear overstocked warehouses, but for hotel operators the revenue is pouring in with daily room rates and occupancy that have broken above pre-pandemic levels.

The healthy finances of U.S. banks, companies and households, trumpeted during the pandemic by Federal Reserve officials as a source of resilience, may be an obstacle to battling inflation as central bankers raise interest rates in an economy able so far to pay the price.

The hearings on the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters will spotlight testimony by the former president's top aides and family as a congressional committee seeks to show that the riot was, as its chairman put it, a "conspiracy to thwart the will of the people." .

The hearings on the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump supporters will spotlight testimony by the former president's top aides and family as a House committee seeks to convince Americans the riot was an planned attack on democracy.

Congressional hearings into the 2021 attack on the U.S.

The congressional committee investigating the attack on the U.S.

The chairman of the congressional panel probing the deadly 2021 U.S.

The congressional hearings on the 2021 assault on the U.S.

Pre-orders of vaccines for children under age five have been slow, but Biden administration senior officials say they are not alarmed and expect the pace to pick up after federal approvals later this month.

President Joe Biden urged top U.S. business executives on Thursday to help bolster his plan for an environmentally-friendly economic partnership with Latin America on the first full day of a regional summit riven by tensions over the guest list.

U.S. President Joe Biden laid out his pitch to leaders from the Americas for a new economic partnership at the start of a regional summit on Thursday, even as he faced open rebuke over the exclusion of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday will lay out a pitch to leaders from the Americas for an environmentally-friendly economic partnership as he gears up for a first formal encounter with his Brazilian counterpart, a noted climate change skeptic.

The chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said concerns raised by lawmakers about Tesla Inc's driver assistance system known as Autopilot are "on our radar."

The stimulus payments come as the U.S. faces rising gas prices, with regular unleaded fuel costing an average of $4.9 per gallon.

U.S President Joe Biden on Wednesday blamed the lack of any progress on gun safety on intimidation by the gun lobby, and he called on voters to make it a deciding issue come November during his first in-person appearance on a late-night talk show.

U.S. and European shares slid and euro zone borrowing costs hit an eight-year high on Thursday after the European Central Bank signaled it would hike interest rates next month for the first time since 2011, a move some said was too slow.