The Justice Department's probe into classified documents found at President Joe Biden's home and former private office will be overseen by Robert Hur, a former US attorney in Maryland who has a "long and distinguished career as a prosecutor," Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday.
On Friday, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will meet with President Biden in Washington, DC. The next day, US trade officials will begin several days of talks in Taiwan, building on an announcement last summer of impending trade negotiations.
Convalescent plasma -- a once-celebrated treatment for Covid-19 that has largely fallen out of favor -- does work well for people who are immune-compromised, according to a study published Thursday.
Alabama's Republican attorney general said this week that women in the state who use prescription medication to terminate their pregnancies could be prosecuted under a chemical-endangerment law, even though Alabama's anti-abortion law does not intend to punish women who receive abortions.
ExxonMobil's own scientists accurately predicted future global warming in reports dating back to the late 1970s and early 1980s, despite the company publicly continuing for years to cast doubt on climate science and lobby against climate action, according to a new analysis.
Last year, I wrote an opinion piece that focused on the realities of being a nurse nearly two years into the pandemic. Despite progress in vaccines, boosters and Covid treatments, nurses were still grappling with extremely sick patients in an overstressed system, with little support. I spoke about my experiences as a nurse practitioner, researcher and cancer survivor living and working in New York, the challenges nurses faced, and the emotion that these issues are wrapped up in.
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Rep. George Santos, the recently elected GOP congressman from New York who has admitted to lying about parts of his resume, is facing escalating backlash from his own party as a growing number of House Republican lawmakers call for him to resign or say he can't serve effectively even as Speaker Kevin McCarthy has stood by the embattled congressman.
For three years, California has been in desperate need of rain. Years of unfavorable precipitation trends and more intense heat waves have fed directly to the state's unrelenting, historic drought that has triggered dire water shortages.
A small number of classified documents from President Joe Biden's time as vice president were discovered at Biden's residence in Wilmington, Delaware, by a team of his lawyers, a top White House lawyer said Thursday.
Over the years, Apple has added touchscreens to almost every computing device imaginable, from phones and tablets to smartwatches, but it has refrained from bringing the feature to its Mac product line -- even as a long list of rivals did so with their laptops and desktops.
