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Rangers who keep an eye on North America's highest mountain peak say impatient and inexperienced climbers are taking more risks and endangering themselves and other climbers after a year off because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A bear attacked and injured a hiker in Yellowstone National Park Friday morning, marking the first incident of a bear injuring a person inside the park this year, officials said. A bear fatally attacked a man just outside the park in April.

Pilot error caused the helicopter crash that killed coal billionaire Chris Cline and six others in the Bahamas in 2019, federal officials said.

A shallow magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck beneath Lake Tahoe on Friday but there were no immediate reports of any injuries of serious damage.

Oxford University is launching an effort to bring together academic, industry and government experts from around the world to use the lessons learned from COVID19 in the fight against future pandemics.

Applicants for a chaplain's job at a Maryland county jail had to sign a statement affirming that they are Christians, a Muslim man claims Thursday in a federal lawsuit accusing the county and a contractor of religious discrimination.

Syrian President Bashar Assad was reelected in a landslide, officials said Thursday, ushering in a fourth sevenyear term in the wartorn country following an election described as illegitimate and a sham by the West and his opposition.

There is no evidence of fraud or political bias in a controversial New Hampshire election where a recount and audit has drawn the interest of former President Donald Trump, auditors concluded Thursday.

Marine scientist Deborah Brosnan remembers "feeling like a visitor at an amazing party" on her diving trips to a bay near the Caribbean island of Saint Barthelemy where she swam above coral reefs with nurse sharks, sea turtles and countless colorful fish.

From Vijay Mallay's bankruptcy petition to more Indians in the UK getting infected by Covid, a roundup of what's making news today.

The Justice Department is refocusing a longstanding violent crime initiative amid a string of violence and mass shootings across the U.S. that includes embedding federal agents with local homicide investigators and sweeps to arrest wanted fugitives with a...

Bolivia's former interior minister has has been arrested in the U.S. for allegedly taking part of $602,000 in kickbacks from Floridabased businessmen accused of selling tear gas at inflated prices to the conservative government of former interim President...

More than 100 people were missing and feared dead after a boat with more than 165 passengers, including women and children, broke up and sank as it was traveling in Nigerias northern Kebbi state, officials said Wednesday.

Santa Clara County Sherif's Deputy Russell Davis told reporters there were "there are multiple injuries and multiple fatalities" and the shooter was now dead.

Puerto Rico ended a nightly pandemic curfew Monday after more than a year in force and will allow vaccinated visitors to enter the island without a negative coronavirus test result.

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