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"Peculiar" people challenge established conventions and norms.

Rilu, a snow leopard at Illinois' Miller Park Zoo, was among the zoo's five big cats that tested positive for COVID-19 in early December last year.

The boy was found in the boot after the mother went to a drive-thru Covid-19 testing site.

"We lost everything in the fire," said the retired nurse with terminal bladder cancer. "[But] we are the richest people in the world because we won the lottery of life today."

The ice was a mile away from the shore by the time the rescue was over.

The guidance allows health care workers with COVID-19 to return to work without isolating or testing negative for the virus.

More than 90,000 breakthrough COVID-19 infections and over 2,000 deaths were also recorded in 2021.

Abbyland Foods Inc. has recalled thousands of pounds of beef due to its failure to declare allergens on the label.

A fire in the Bronx borough of New York City has resulted in numerous fatalities, including nine children.

The jackpot was worth $632.6 million last week. This week, it's significantly less than that.

Podcaster Douglas Kuzma died of COVID-19 afterr attending the far-right “ReAwaken America” event in mid-December.

The next Mega Millions numbers will be drawn on Tuesday, Jan. 11.

An official stimulus check is not in the works, but there will still be some form of financial aid for some Americans as 2022 continues.

New York's Governor Kathy Hochul has announced that her state will become the first in the country to mandate fully vaccinated healthcare workers to receive booster shots.

Before wearing a KN95 or N95 mask, it is important to make sure they are authorized by the Food and Drug Administration.

Ahmaud Arbery's killers are facing life sentences after being convicted of murder, aggravated assault, and false imprisonment in November. The trio will face federal hate crime charges in February.

Hiring in the U.S. ended in December with more of a whimper than a bang with only 199,000 jobs added, according to the Department of Labor on Friday. 

Dr. Anthony Fauci would have been eligible for a federal pension of $333,745 per year if he had chosen to retire at the end of 2020, according to reports.

The investigator with the state Department of Children and Family Services was doing a welfare check at a house with six children.

The teenager has been identified as a Gloucester High School, Massachusetts, student named Kurt Ryan.

Friday’s no classes call marked the third consecutive day that Chicago Public Schools canceled classes amid a feud with the teachers union over stricter COVID-19 safety policies.

The stepmother was arrested a day after the child's father was charged with assault of the missing child.

The former youth pastor at First Baptist Church in Goshen will serve 20 years behind bars for molesting boys as young as 11 from 2012 to 2019.

Three human rabies deaths were reported in a span of several weeks.

Eligible Americans who did not receive a stimulus check in 2021 can still claim their money in the new year.

President Joe Biden condemned the attack on the Capitol from a mob of Trump supporters.

Experts believe the emergence of new variants will end once everyone around the world receives the COVID-19 vaccine.

The US hit a record of 951 pediatric Covid-19 Hospitalizations on Wednesday as 3,100 children have been hospitalized in the past week as the Omicron variant continues to surge.

The U.S trade deficit expanded in November by over 19.3% as exports fell behind and import demand jumped amid concerns about COVID-19.