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A pedestrian bridge collapsed in Northeast Washington, D.C., Wednesday, leaving at least three people with injuries, authorities said.

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a Pennsylvania public school wrongly suspended a cheerleader over a vulgar social media post.

“This is still a rare event,” Dr. Tom Shimabukuro said at the meeting. For both vaccines combined, there were 12.6 heart inflammation cases per million doses.

John McAfee, the creator of McAfee antivirus software, was found dead in his jail cell near Barcelona in an apparent suicide Wednesday, hours after a Spanish court approved his extradition to the United States to face tax charges punishable by decades in prison, authorities said.

A former Texas sheriff’s deputy has been indicted on capital murder charges in the April shooting of his ex-wife, teenage stepdaughter and the stepdaughter’s boyfriend

An exclusive Rhode Island beach club tied to Democratic U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has broken its silence to defend itself from claims that it only allows white people after the controversy garnered national attention

A Florida man admitted Wednesday that he joined with other members of the far-right Oath Keepers in storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the second follower of the group to plead guilty to charges stemming from the riot. Graydon Young, 54, pleaded guilty to conspiring with roughly a dozen other Oath Keepers who came to Washington to protest th...

Buckingham Palace has for the first time released figures on the ethnic makeup of its staff following the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s allegations of racism in the royal family.

There’s no evidence yet to suggest that a Covid-19 vaccine booster shot is needed, a working group for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. That could change as the pandemic evolves, however, and public health officials will continue to monitor the virus to determine if additional shots are warranted in the future. Members...

A 49-year-old woman from Indiana who came to Washington with her hairdresser friend was put on probation Wednesday in the first sentence stemming from the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. With the number of people arrested approaching 500, it was the first of what government officials said would likely be similar proceedings for the ...

President Joe Biden is mourning his former Senate colleague, Virginia’s John Warner

A star of the popular Nickelodeon show “Drake & Josh” has pleaded guilty to a felony charge of attempted child endangerment in Cleveland.

As the new election method gains momentum, here are the basics of ranked-choice voting