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Residents have been slow to embrace vaccinations as they weigh lower risks of infection—local Covid-19 cases have hit zero on some recent days—against concerns over potential side effects.

Moscow warned the West Friday against sending troops to Ukraine to buttress its ally, after Kiev accused Moscow of building up troops on its border. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday accused Russia of massing troops on the border and

When she was the First Lady, Michelle Obama visited two all-girls schools in the UK. She’s kept in touch since leaving the White House.

Cases are surging in some states, but the Biden administration’s chief medical adviser says “hopefully … the vaccine is going to win this one.” He urges continued mask-wearing and other measures. (Image credit: Susan Walsh-Pool/Getty Images)

Representative Pramila Jayapal looks solemn. She is one of the top leaders of the progressive movement in Congress, and she’s poised to finally effect change in a Democrat-controlled government after a decade of the party sharing power with Republicans. But

Andy Byford was feeling guilty. It was March 2020, and he had just left his job as head of the New York City Transit Authority, after Governor Andrew Cuomo moved him off a massive revamp of the ailing subways. Stuck

Southwest, American Airlines, Dell, and AT&T are all criticizing Republican-sponsored legislation in the state legislature aimed at curbing voter access. (Image credit: Cooper Neill/AFP via Getty Images)

It will be the first time on a plane for most of the undocumented families that arrive daily at the McAllen, Texas airport, holding envelopes that read “Please help me, I don’t speak English.” The envelopes are not passports per

A derailed passenger train in Taiwan killed more than three dozen people and trapped more than 70 others, in the island’s deadliest rail accident in at least four decades.

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