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Covid vaccinations: the raging pandemic was the gravest single threat facing Biden's administration when he took over on January 20. The solution was mass vaccinations.

A North Carolina sheriff whose deputies shot and killed a Black man while serving warrants said Saturday that he will ask a court to release body camera video as soon as he's confident it won't compromise an investigation of how the shooting happened.

Just a few months ago, California was the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. Hospitals in Los Angeles were drowning in patients, and ambulances were idling outside with people struggling to breathe, waiting for beds to open.

It was 7:30 a.m. on Christmas Eve when Cha Junghoon, South Korea's deputy minister for small businesses, got a call from his boss to make an urgent threehour car trip to visit syringe maker Poonglim Pharmatech.

A federal judge in California refused Wednesday to allow the extradition to Iraq of a man accused of committing a killing for the Islamic State, saying cellphone evidence shows he was in Turkey at the time of the slaying.

"So emotional that no family in history ever got this far. We were able to get a guilty charge on all counts," Floyd's brother, Rodney Floyd, said.

With a collective nervous energy, millions of people paused in front of television sets or other screens Tuesday for a verdict in the case that for nearly a year has exposed the raw nerve of racial relations in America.

Canada's biggest city Toronto and neighboring Peel, both of which are in the midst of a third wave of COVID19 infections, on Tuesday said they would order businesses to close if they had outbreaks involving five or more people, medical officials said.

The group's new World Press Freedom Index painted a stark picture and concluded that 73% of the world's nations have serious issues with media freedoms.

The case pits the administration against immigrant groups that contend federal law is more forgiving for the 400,000 people who are TPS recipients.

Medical providers in Tennessee would be required to cremate or bury fetal remains from surgical abortions under legislation advanced by the GOPcontrolled House on Monday.

Sudan on Monday abolished a decadesold law on boycotting Israel, part of efforts to establish normal ties with the Jewish state.

Chicagos public high schools were set to reopen Monday for the first time since the nation's thirdlargest school district went fully remote amid the coronavirus pandemic over a year ago.

Russia on Sunday ordered 20 Czech diplomats to leave the country within a day in response to the Czech government's expulsion of 18 Russian diplomats it identified as spies for a military intelligence agency that Prague claims was involved in a 2014 ammun...

Navalny barely survived a poisoning with the Novichok nerve agent in August which he has blamed on the Kremlin. His doctors say his hunger strike might have exacerbated his condition.

As military bands played and a procession of royals escorted his coffin to the church, Prince Philip was laid to rest Saturday in a funeral ceremony that honored his lifetime of service to the U.K., the crown and his wife of 73 years, Queen Elizabeth II.