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A Mexican governmental agency is considering reducing the protected area for endangered vaquita porpoises in the northern Gulf of California as their number there dwindles below an estimated 10.

The action comes months ...Read more

The devastating wildfires that torched a record 4.3 million acres in the U.S. in 2020 made North America the only region in the world where air quality was worse than during the previous year.

Most of the world's major ...Read more

Vaccine nationalism in countries including the U.S. and India is likely to derail efforts by the World Health Organization to deliver 2 billion doses to poorer and middle-income nations by the end of the year, according to...Read more

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said there was no chance that Republicans would back any tax increases to pay for President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan, leaving Democrats to try to force through a package on ...Read more

Joe Biden will hold his first formal press conference as president next week, the White House said Tuesday, capping off a long dry spell that attracted criticism from his political opponents.

Biden, who has taken ...Read more

President Joe Biden signaled a willingness Tuesday to overhaul the Senate rule that allows the minority party to block legislation, saying he’d support the return of the “talking filibuster” for senators seeking to ...Read more

AUSTIN, Texas — Tension mounted in the SXSW online chat for Stacey Abrams' keynote as the minutes ticked on. Ten minutes late. Then 20, then 30.

About every 60 seconds, a SXSW chatbot would assuredly chime in with the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two people died after a massive explosion set off by fireworks at an Ontario house rocked a residential neighborhood Tuesday, prompting a large response from firefighters and law enforcement.

Ontario Fire ...Read more

WASHINGTON — China is using “mask and vaccine diplomacy” to undercut U.S. influence in Latin America by offering coronavirus pandemic support tied to a push for Chinese telecommunications investments in the region, ...Read more

Former President Donald Trump said he would urge his supporters and others wary of the COVID-19 vaccine to get it, while also saying that personal freedoms must be respected.

“I would recommend it to a lot of people ...Read more

NEW YORK — President Joe Biden affirmed late Tuesday that Gov. Andrew Cuomo must resign if the sexual misconduct accusations against him are substantiated, breaking over a week of silence on the increasingly volatile ...Read more

Laura Schwartzenberger, an FBI special agent killed while on duty last month, was a regular visitor at Rockway Middle School in Westchester, Florida, where she would teach students about some of the hazards of social media...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Tired of being confused for law enforcement, Hennepin EMS paramedics will soon trade their trademark brown uniforms for blue ones "to better distinguish their role as emergency medical services."

The ...Read more

The Chicago bank that lent millions of dollars to Paul Manafort under its founder and former longtime chief executive has now sued the former Trump campaign chairman and his wife, seeking to foreclose upon his mansion in ...Read more

More than 95% of the people who have received the first dose of the two-shot coronavirus vaccine regimen have returned on time for their second, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says.

The public ...Read more

ATLANTA — Seven people are dead and at least two more are injured after a spate of shootings Tuesday at massage parlors around the Atlanta metropolitan area.

In Cherokee County, a suspect is on the run after a shooting ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted 81-17 Tuesday to confirm Isabel Guzman, President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Small Business Administration.

As SBA administrator, Guzman will oversee the remaining disbursements from...Read more

WASHINGTON — The $349 billion Congress first allotted to help small businesses through the Paycheck Protection Program evaporated almost immediately after it was released last April.

When it emerged that a number of big...Read more

CHICAGO — A Chicago hospital that primarily serves Black and Latino residents acknowledged on Tuesday improperly vaccinating workers last week at Trump Tower downtown.

In a memo to staff, Loretto Hospital President ...Read more