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Your favorite clothes, cookware, and even dental floss may contain toxic chemicals that are harmful to human health. Now, a new Colorado law is aiming to make those products safer....

Beijing ramps up pressure over ‘crime of secession’ while Taipei says China has no jurisdiction over Taiwan and urges its people not to be intimidated...

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Ukrainian energy facilities have come under a massive attack from Russia, in the latest onslaught targeting the country’s power grid, officials say....

Fireworks launched from a yacht in Greece sparked a forest fire on the island of Hydra on Friday, the local firefighting authority has said....

The country’s aging population and low fertility rate jeopardizes the solvency of Social Security and the Medicare program, according to a new study by Brookings...

Prices are soaring and the option to buy is receding for millions of tenants nailed by rising rents...

Vital drugs are either not authorized or are deemed too expensive, as cases rise....

The Continent’s housing crisis has gone from being a slow burn to a four-alarm fire — but some countries are handling it better than others....

Many prisoners clean toilets and prep food with no pay – as the state charges $50 a day for their incarceration...

State’s transport department given a 2045 deadline to fully decarbonize and achieve zero emissions under agreement...

Washington says Moscow’s influence over company poses significant risk, as Kaspersky argues its activities do not threaten US security...

Exclusive: if ex-president succeeds, prosecutors could be left with only a sliver of evidence for obstruction charge...

The Italian government has fined a car company $6.4m (£5m) for allegedly branding vehicles that were made in China as being produced in Italy....

Pope Francis has been told by a Filipino Catholic university student to “stop using offensive language” against LGBTQ people....

The piercing scream, like a sound from a horror film, triggered taekwondo instructor Simon An to draw on his years of martial arts training....

A University of Southern California student will not face charges for the fatal stabbing of a homeless man he said was done in self-defense....

Walt Disney Co. continues to face fallout from its scuttled plans to move 2,000 California employees to a proposed Florida campus — a controversial decision the company reversed last year following the return of Chief Executive Bob Iger....

The US plans to stop open orders for Patriot interceptor missiles, the Financial Times reported....

Russian president delivered the warning after Seoul announced it would consider arming Kyiv....

A crowd of vigilantes in Pakistan killed and burned the body of a man whom they accused of desecrating the Quran. Police registered a case against the mob of hundreds....

France’s National Rally has sought to style itself a defender of women’s rights — partly by attacking its traditional bogeyman: immigration....

Millions of Americans are already shut out of buying a home, and the cost of buying one continues to rise....

The United States has approved the $360 million sale of more than 1,000 small armed drones to Taiwan, as the self-ruled island claimed by China aims to strengthen its asymmetrical warfare abilities with an eye on successful tactics used on the battlefield in Ukraine....

South Korea’s presidential office on Thursday condemned an agreement reached by Russia and North Korea that vowed mutual defense assistance in the event of war and said it will reconsider its policy of limiting its support to Ukraine to non-lethal supplies....

After delays in delivery and training pilots and ground staff, Netherlands says Ukraine should get first planes in summer...

Fears that ‘pink slime’ sites could be as harmful to political discourse as foreign disinformation in 2016 and 2020...

Human-induced climate change made recent extreme heat in the US southwest, Mexico and Central America around 35 times more likely, scientists say....

Greens lawmaker Katrin Göring-Eckardt apologized for the post made after Germany’s 2-0 win against Hungary. It comes after a survey showed 21% of Germans would like to see more white players on the national team....

It’s a notable evolution in strategy for the EU, and came after Germany and Hungary held up a deal for weeks....

Philippines soldiers used their “bare hands” to fight off Chinese coast guard personnel armed with swords, spears and knives in the disputed South China Sea, the country’s top military commander has said....

Mr Putin’s first visit to Pyongyang since 2000 was a chance for Russia and North Korea to flaunt their friendship. And flaunt it they did, with Mr Kim declaring his “full support” for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....

The prehistoric megalithic structure in England has been targeted by activists spraying orange powder paint, social media footage showed....

Vladimir Putin said Russia and North Korea have ramped up ties to a “new level,” pledging to help each other if either nation is attacked in a “breakthrough” new partnership announced during the Russian president’s rare visit to the reclusive state....

We’ve been dealing with high inflation in this economy over the last several years, with everything from groceries to new vehicles to construction supplies soaring in price....

Chinese Coast Guard rammed and boarded Philippine naval boats and confiscated their weapons in the South China Sea, injuring a Filipino soldier, the Philippine military said on Wednesday....

Five people were killed in the attack on the LGBTQ bar....

The newly required course emphasizes de-escalation and non-threatening conduct for officers...

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has referred a complaint against TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance over potential violations of children’s privacy to the Department of Justice (DOJ)....

A bipartisan United States congressional delegation met with the Dalai Lama Wednesday at his residence in India’s Dharamshala, sparking anger from China which views the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism as a dangerous separatist....

The EU is having a radical rethink of how to cope with the trade threat from Beijing — and its response has a very Chinese flavor to it....

Claire*, 42, was always told: “Follow your dreams and the money will follow.” So that’s what she did. At 24, she opened a retail store with a friend in downtown Ottawa, Canada. She’d managed to save enough from a part-time government job during university to start the business without taking out a loan....

A federal judge on Monday granted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as employers in two Southern states, temporary relief from complying with a federal rule that would have required them to provide workers with time off and other workplace accommodations for abortions....

University hires Brunswick Group amid anger from campus organizers at its sustainability school’s funding...

Reddish-brown liquid found in untouched 2,000-year-old Roman tomb is a local, sherry-like wine...

Organizers hope those disillusioned by electoral politics will vote with an eye on abortion rights after fall of Roe...

The United States on Monday condemned China over a collision with the Philippines in the disputed South China Sea, the latest in a series of increasingly fraught confrontations that have raised the potential of a flashpoint for global conflict in the vital waterway....

Dr Vivek Murthy asks for required labels that state ‘social media is associated with significant mental health harms’...