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Taiwan's government on Saturday reported the island's first death from COVID19 since May, as it battles a small and unusual outbreak of locally transmitted cases.

Eleven soldiers at a U.S. military base in Texas were hospitalized, with two in critical condition, after drinking antifreeze they mistook for alcohol, Army officials said on Friday.

Lenka Perron mostly stopped cooking and no longer took her daily walk.

Shares of GameStop have surged from $19 on December 31, 2020, to $197.84 on January 27 – a gain of nearly 1,900 per cent after small investors on Reddit forced hedge funds to unwind short positions.

Donald Trump has mused about forming a third party. But it's not clear why he needs one.

The Pentagon on Thursday said the Taliban's refusal to meet commitments to reduce violence in Afghanistan is raising questions about whether all U.S. troops will be able to leave by May as required under the peace agreement.

On January 6, hundreds of pro-Trump protesters pushed through barriers set up along the perimeter of the Capitol, where they tussled with officers in full riot gear, some calling the officers 'traitors' for doing their jobs.

US aims to acquire an additional 200 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, President Joe Biden said, enough to inoculate most Americans by summertime, as he races to curb a pandemic he warned could still get worse.

The Justice Department on Tuesday rescinded a Trumpera memo that established a zero tolerance enforcement policy for migrants crossing the U.S.Mexico border illegally, which resulted in thousands of family separations.

From a wood-paneled library in his Boston mansion, new climate envoy John Kerry is talking the U.S. back into a leading role in global climate action, making clear the nation isn't just revving up its own efforts to reduce oil, gas and coal pollution but...

Mark Mazur, director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and a former Treasury assistant secretary for tax policy, was named as deputy assistant secretary for tax policy in Treasury.

President Joe Biden told German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday that he is looking to revitalize the transatlantic alliance with Germany, a relationship that became strained under former President Donald Trump.

He said each country should independently decide to opt for the vaccine of its choice independently. "On this issue, there should not be vicious competition, and certainly not confrontation," Zhao said.

Biden's decision echoes those of his predecessors, particularly Trump. Trump had issued an executive order urging the federal government to purchase more US-made products and turning tariffs into a weapon against imports -- with mixed results.

About 30,000 North Koreans have fled repression and poverty under the communist regime and settled in the capitalist South, mostly by first secretly crossing over the porous border with China.

An abrupt move on the part of Oli plunged Nepal into political uncertainty after years of instability and short-lived governments.