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WASHINGTON - The Pentagon says that 2,000 people - including 325 American citizens - were evacuated from Afghanistan in 18 flights over the past 24 hours, just days after the Taliban's stunningly swif...

NEW YORK (AP) - The names, Social Security numbers and information from driver's licenses or other identification of just over 40 million former and prospective customers that applied for T-Mobile cre...

NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. health officials Wednesday announced plans to dispense COVID-19 booster shots to all Americans to shore up their protection amid the surging delta variant and evidence that the va...

After five frustrating years mired in bureaucratic delays, Bahaudin Mujtaba and wife Lisa had hoped to finally bring the 10-year-old Afghan boy they're adopting to their home in Florida this year for ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's first female governor, Kathy Hochul, is set to take office on Tuesday, Aug. 24, at the stroke of midnight.Gov. Andrew Cuomo's resignation from office will be effective a...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has announced that he and husband Chasten have become parents.Buttigieg, the first openly gay Cabinet secretary confirmed by the Senate, poste...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine strongly urged Tuesday that schoolchildren continue wearing masks in school at least for the beginning of the academic year to avert more drastic coronaviru...

LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) - Haitian officials raised the death toll from a deadly weekend earthquake by more than 500 on Tuesday after Tropical Storm Grace forced a temporary halt to search and rescue eff...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP/WMAL) - Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, according to his office, who said he is in good health and experiencing no symptoms. Abbott, who wa...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Multiple federal agencies that operated in Afghanistan and worked with Afghan citizens have been hastily purging their websites, removing articles and photos that could endanger the ...