On Friday, an advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration recommended authorizing a booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine solely for recipients who are 65 or older or face high risk of severe COVID-19. It declined to recommend...

Texas, other states, and laws that may encourage civil lawsuits

When mass evacuation becomes the primary response to hurricanes and wildfires, leaders are admitting that they cannot protect their citizens from threats of climate change.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers set up a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice" in the building that once housed the Women's Affairs Ministry, escorting out World Bank staffers Saturday as part...

France recalled its ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia in a diplomatic slap intended to convey its anger over a deal forged in secrecy that saw Paris lose a multi billion dollar submarine contract.