An experimental vaccine developed by India’s Bharat Biotech International Ltd. showed 81% efficacy in an interim clinical trial. AstraZeneca Plc’s and Pfizer Inc.’s vaccines protected the elderly after a single dose in a new study that validates...

The inspector general's request for a criminal investigation late last year was rebuffed.

The US House of Representatives passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, the most ambitious police reform effort in decades, for the second time on Wednesday. The sweeping legislation would ban chokeholds and “qualified immunity” for law enforcement...

Law enforcement warnings that a militia group may be plotting to attack the U.S. Capitol on Thursday raised tensions again in Washington and helped prompt the House to cancel plans to meet for votes.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) placed an agent on leave after he was seen outside the Capitol during a riot by supporters of former President Trump on Jan. 6.DEA agent Mark Ibrahim told Reuters in a phone interview that he "never entered the...

Japan this month marks 10 years since the worst natural disaster in the country's living memory -- the massive earthquake, deadly tsunami and nuclear meltdown of March 11, 2011. But in some places, evacuees have been reluctant to return even after measures...