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Greta Thunberg took a gap year from high school in 2019 to help spread awareness about climate change, and that journey is documented in her new series “Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World.”

When a killer whale circled back toward wildlife photographer Brian Skerry in the middle of the ocean after discarding the giant sting ray it was devouring, panic is not what came to mind: “Part of my brain is thinking I can’t believe what I’m seeing,” recalled Skerry.

Democratic lawmakers have unveiled legislation that would invest $25 billion to convert the nation’s fleet of gasoline- and diesel-powered school buses to electric vehicles

As he welcomed the guilty verdicts Tuesday against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, President Joe Biden pressed Congress to advance the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, named for the Black man Chauvin killed while kneeling on his neck. The bill, approved by the Democratic-led House in March, has yet to receive a vote ...

U.S. wildlife managers have set aside areas in seven states as habitat that’s critical to the survival of a rare songbird that migrates each year from Central and South America to breeding grounds in Mexico and the United States

It looks like something to celebrate: small businesses posting “Help Wanted” signs as the economy edges toward normalcy

Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie was arrested Wednesday on a felony charge of perjury in an official proceeding.

A white Louisiana school bus driver who made a racist remark to a Black student about the murder of George Floyd is out of a job after the child’s mother complained to school officials

D.C.’s Wilson High would still be Wilson High under a new proposal, but named in honor of Black playwright August Wilson instead of former president Woodrow Wilson.

A year after a Connecticut company was awarded almost $1.3 billion in federal loans and contracts to supply an essential syringe for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, no syringes have been made.

Police arrested nearly 1,500 people in a day of demonstrations throughout Russia calling for freedom for imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whose health reportedly is in severe decline after three weeks of hunger striking, according to a group that monitors political detentions

Members of the Sikh community are feeling a collective trauma over the mass shooting in Indianapolis that killed eight people, including four Sikhs, and say more needs to be done to combat the bigotry, bias and violence they have suffered for decades in America.

President Joe Biden has announced new employer tax credits and other steps to encourage people reluctant to be inoculated to get the COVID-19 vaccine

Crowds nationwide have reacted with jubilation but also with deep awareness of the progress left to be made after a jury convicted former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin of murder in the killing of George Floyd.

Hundreds of people gathered at the scene of George Floyd’s death to hear the verdict in the trial of the former police officer charged in his death

The National Transportation Safety Board has found that obstructed views and problems with a system that alerts pilots to nearby planes combined to cause the midair crash of Alaska sightseeing planes that killed six people two years ago.

Tennessee House lawmakers have passed a bill that would put public schools at risk of civil lawsuits if they let transgender students or employees use multi-person bathrooms or locker rooms that don’t reflect their gender at birth.

A backcountry guide has died after he was mauled by a large grizzly bear just outside of Yellowstone National Park in Montana.

A group of religious leaders is calling for a boycott of Georgia-based Home Depot, saying the home improvement giant hasn’t done enough to oppose the state’s new voting laws.

A fire at the Domino Sugar plant sent white smoke billowing over the Inner Harbor in Baltimore.

George Floyd’s death, captured on video, caused global outrage. The guilty verdicts for the man who killed him, Derek Chauvin, have led to what some described as a sigh of relief. Here are some reactions that followed the verdict.

Almost a year after the world watched George Floyd die under Derek Chauvin’s knee, jurors found the former police officer charged with his murder guilty on all charges Tuesday. After days of tension across the country, with Americans braced for more outrage in the streets, the faces in a crowd that gathered outside the Minnesota courthouse sh...

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris called the Floyd family on Tuesday after former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder in the death of George Floyd.

A Southern California man is recovering after he was bitten by a rattlesnake when he tried to pick up the poisonous reptile using barbecue tongs, authorities said.

It’s been rare to charge police with crimes in the death of civilians, and winning a conviction is harder in part because juries are often reluctant to second guess an officer’s split-second decisions.

Several doctors have been prevented from seeing Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny at a prison hospital after his three-week hunger strike.

Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with his knee on the Black man’s neck in a case that triggered worldwide protests, violence and a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S.

President Joe Biden’s administration announced an increase Tuesday in the number of temporary seasonal workers who will be allowed to work in the U.S. this year as the U.S. economy recovers from the pandemic

A Virginia truck driver wanted in Texas for sexual assault of a child was found in Rhode Island with a teenage girl reported missing nearly a year ago, authorities said.

A woman who died in a weekend parachute accident in Northern California had made thousands of previous jumps, the owner of the skydiving center said Monday.

Police say an employee shot three workers inside an office at a Long Island grocery store Tuesday, killing a manager

Archeologists say they found evidence of a home that belonged to Ben Ross, Harriet Tubman’s father, more than a century ago.

A top military commander says that Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno has been killed on the battlefield in a fight against rebels

Taco Bell is collaborating with international recycling leader TerraCycle to give its sauce packets a second life that doesn’t involve a landfill.

Former President George W. Bush described today’s Republican Party as “isolationist, protectionist and, to a certain extent, nativist” and said he’s especially concerned about the anti-immigration rhetoric.

On Monday, April 19, retired basketball champion Scottie Pippen announced the devastating news of his son Antron Pippen’s death. Antron, Scottie’s firstborn son with ex-wife Karen McCollum, was 33 years old

With Covid restrictions loosening, it may be time to switch your regular order from delivery to pick-up and save some money.

Here are the schools that are doling out the most aid to offset the cost of college, according to The Princeton Review.

The plan is a play off the company’s simplified dress code of “dress appropriately,” which GM CEO Mary Barra initiated when leading human resources.

A new report by a private research group, and a separate review by NBC News, uncovered hundreds of social media posts discussing plans to move on the Capitol, including a map of the facility and talk of how to create a stampede that would overwhelm Capitol Police.

The State Department is urging Americans not to travel overseas because of the risks from the coronavirus pandemic

A Michigan father has moved his 7-year-old biracial daughter from one school to another after the child’s hair was cut on separate occasions by a classmate and a teacher.

Subaru is recalling nearly 875,000 cars and SUVs in the U.S. because the engines can stall or a rear suspension part can fall off

Venmo will show users a new feature that lets them invest in four different cryptocurrencies with a minimum spending requirement of $1.

The permafrost isn’t permanent. For the last hundred years, Earth’s average surface temperature has climbed. That means the active layer has gotten slightly warmer, which can melt off the top layer of permafrost. Rising temps mean more melting ice. And as Hoover discovered, when ancient ice melts it can release trapped organisms – interrupting cent...

The IRS estimates the average taxpayer spends 12 hours working on their taxes and pays an average of $230 to get their paperwork filed.

Apple spruced up its product line at an event Tuesday while slipping in quiet notice of a software update, now due next week, designed to enhance the privacy of iPhone users at the expense of digital advertisers such as Facebook.

The U.S. ambassador in Moscow says he will head home for consultations this week — a move that comes after Russia prodded him to leave.

Orange County first responders and good Samaritans rescued 14 people from a boat that was taking on water off the coast of Newport Beach, authorities said.

As marijuana legalization spreads across U.S. states, so does a debate over whether to set pot policy by potency.

The jurors who sat quietly off-camera through three weeks of draining testimony in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial in George Floyd’s death moved into the spotlight Tuesday, still out of sight but now in control of verdicts awaited by a skittish city.

Asian American families are wrestling with whether to send their children back to classrooms as high schools, middle schools and elementary schools across the country widely reopen amid rising anti-Asian harassment.

There are growing concerns about one American who risks being left behind as the U.S. moves to withdraw its military from Afghanistan.

A 22-year-old man pleaded guilty Monday and was immediately sentenced to more than six years in prison for breaking into the residence of three female college students in the city of Orange, helping himself to refreshments and using a laptop computer belonging to one of the residents to download porn and commit a sex act.

A Northern California woman who acknowledged using U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s name and Social Security number to receive $21,000 in pandemic-related assistance pleaded guilty Monday to stealing unemployment benefits.

A UCLA study published Monday found that the proportion of physicians who are Black in the United States has increased by only four percentage points over the past 120 years, and that the share of doctors who are Black men remains unchanged since 1940.

Former Vice President Walter Mondale, a liberal icon who lost one of the most lopsided presidential elections after bluntly telling voters to expect a tax increase if he won, has died

Demolition has begun on a South Florida mansion that once belonged to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The Houston Rockets say that guard Sterling Brown was assaulted by unknown individuals after the team arrived in Miami late Sunday night, suffering cuts to his face.

The judge overseeing the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer in the death of George Floyd says recent comments by U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters are “abhorrent” and says they could lead to a verdict being appealed and overturned

An attorney for Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson on Monday accused the 22 women who have filed lawsuits alleging they were sexually assaulted or harassed by the NFL player during massages of lying, claiming their assertions are based on “an avalanche of false accusations.”

New research shows ferocious tyrannosaur dinosaurs may not have been solitary predators as long envisioned, but more like social carnivores such as wolves.

Pressure is mounting on authorities to release police body camera video of a shooting at a Knoxville, Tennessee, school that left a student dead and a police officer wounded.

A sheriff’s office in Louisiana has issued an arrest warrant for newly signed Seattle Seahawks defensive end Aldon Smith.

The Biden administration wants federal employees to drop use of the word “alien” to refer to noncitizens and migrants in official communications.

Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz and Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene are presenting top House Republicans with a test of how to handle a new breed of Trump-era, social media-savvy firebrands.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Monday denied that his company’s automated driving systems were involved in a fatal crash in Spring, Texas, on Saturday.

Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who was injured while confronting rioters during the Jan. 6 insurrection, suffered a stroke and died from natural causes, the Washington, D.C., medical examiner’s office ruled Monday, a finding that lessens the chances that anyone will be charged in his death.

The 12 jurors who convicted Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd had three counts to consider and returned guilty verdicts on all three

A man accused of assaulting an Asian couple and threatening s U.S. Olympian at an Orange County park has been arrested.

New York state’s comptroller has formally asked the New York state attorney general’s office to look into whether Gov. Andrew Cuomo committed any indictable offense related to his pandemic book, according to a letter Thomas DiNapoli’s office sent to Letitia James first reported by The New York Times.

A federal judge on Monday ordered two leaders of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group to be arrested and jailed while awaiting trial on charges they planned and coordinated an attack on the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.

The search for survivors from a capsized lift boat in the Gulf of Mexico has closed and attention now turns to comforting the loved ones of the five known dead and eight missing, a grim hunt for bodies and a painstaking investigation that could take up to two years.

George and Emily Spurrier are leaving their home of 16 years in central Arkansas due to a new law that will ban the health care that they say their 17-year-old transgender son needs, NBC News reports.

Ballot drop boxes were enormously popular during the 2020 election

A former employee who fatally shot eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis never appeared before a judge for a hearing under Indiana’s “red flag” law

On Monday, Cuba’s Communist Party congress — as expected — chose Miguel Díaz-Canel to be its leader, adding that crucial post to the title of president he assumed in 2018. In both cases, he replaces his mentor Raul Castro, 89, sealing a political dynasty that had held power since the 1959 revolution.

Apple will reinstate the Parler app. It was pulled from the App Store after it was used to publicize the Capitol riot and content featured calls for violence.

A manhunt is underway for a former sheriff’s deputy wanted in the fatal shooting of three people in Austin, Texas.

Those eligible for a stimulus check need to file a tax return to receive the money, regardless of if they earned any income in 2020 or not.

A Tennessee woman says she called police about a physical fight involving her daughter and the girl’s boyfriend before he was fatally shot by officers in a high school bathroom

U.S. officials are scrambling to handle a dramatic spike in children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border alone

NASA’s experimental Mars helicopter rose from the dusty red surface into the thin air Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.

Authorities are searching for a suspect after a 7-year-old girl was killed and her father wounded in a shooting Sunday afternoon while sitting inside a vehicle at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Chicago’s Homan Square neighborhood, according to police.

A lawyer says Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in the third week of a hunger strike while behind bars, was moved to a hospital in another prison after his doctor said he could be near death

Attorneys in the trial of former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin over the death of George Floyd are making their closing arguments Monday.

President Joe Biden faces a vexing task as he convenes a virtual climate summit on Thursday.

Santa Rosa police say a bizarre crime in the area is related to the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

Donald Trump ended his presidency with such a firm grip on Republican voters that party leaders fretted he would freeze the field of potential 2024 candidates and delay their preparations as he considered another run.

A manhunt is underway for a former sheriff’s deputy wanted in the fatal shooting of three people in Austin, Texas.

Carrie Underwood brought the Academy of Country Music Awards to church

NASA landed its fifth rover on Mars Thursday after a nearly seven-month journey capped by a 12,000-mph blast through the Martian atmosphere and a gentle touchdown.