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From California to New England to Europe, many areas of the Northern Hemisphere are approaching a 'snow-loss cliff' due to global warming, researchers say.

Disinformation is exacerbating political polarization and mistrust amid a tight presidential race in Taiwan, where tension with China is running high.

The muxe — Indigenous Zapotec people in Mexico — view themselves as neither man nor woman. They embrace a distinct 'third gender,' part of a burgeoning LGBTQ+ movement worldwide.

DeSantis and Haley, the two candidates with the best chance to beat Donald Trump for the Republican nomination, clashed in their first one-on-one debate just days before Iowa holds its first-in-the-nation caucuses.

The proposed California law to ban tackle football for children under 12 due to growing concerns over brain injuries was approved Wednesday by a legislative committee.

After a door plug on a 737 Max 9 blew open mid-flight, CEO Dave Calhoun told Boeing employees there would be '100% transparency' around 'our mistake.'

The justices may want to reverse the Colorado decision disqualifying the former president for insurrection under the 14th Amendment, but it won't be easy.

Answers to your questions about how the in-flight blowout of a plug on an Alaska Airlines plane could affect flights in the near future.

Four bolts meant to keep the Boeing 737 Max 9's door plug from shifting up, then blowing wide open are missing. Officials said it's not clear whether they were in place before the flight.

A federal court Tuesday rejected a Jewish family's decades-long legal fight for a famous Pissarro painting that was taken from them by the Nazis at the dawn of World War II and is currently at a museum in Spain.

The word has become shorthand for systems of oppressive rule around the world — and a popular refrain of pro-Palestinian activists.

The ex-gang leader charged with orchestrating the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur can be released on $750,000 bail pending a June trial, a judge decided Tuesday.

In an oral argument Tuesday, appellate judges appeared to lean against granting former President Trump immunity from prosecution in the Jan. 6 election subversion case.

With a global average temperature of 58.96 degrees, the year was nearly one-third of a degree warmer than the previous hottest year on record, according to officials.

The former president's disqualification for insurrection under the 14th Amendment in Colorado threatens to make a mess the justices will likely try to avoid.

Despite a basketball background as a UCLA player and general manager with the Warriors, Bob Myers is hired by the Commanders as an adviser. He will help Washington search for a new coach after Ron Rivera was fired.

U.S. gymnastics legend Mary Lou Retton, on oxygen, speaks for the first time since spending several weeks in intensive care with a rare form of pneumonia in the fall.

Q&A: Is Donald Trump subject to criminal charges for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol? A look at the legal questions surrounding his immunity claim and what it means for all future presidents.

Early polls have found that when offered a third choice, up to 17% of voters grab it — a big enough share to swing the presidential election.