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The White House on Wednesday announced President Joe Biden's pick of as deputy energy secretary and Julie Su as deputy labor secretary.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Wednesday promised she will honor the will of voters to legalize pot for medical use, just not this year.

Britain said it would give an additional 3.5 billion pounds ($4.8 billion) to remove dangerous cladding on highrise residential buildings, more than three years after flammable cladding was blamed for a deadly tower block fire in London.

An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft on Wednesday successfully entered orbit around Mars after a 61/2month journey from Earth, China's space agency said, in the country's first independent mission to the red planet.

U.S. drugmaker Moderna Inc will supply its COVID19 vaccine to the governments of Taiwan and Colombia, the company said, providing five million and 10 million doses respectively.

Indonesia's air accident investigator will brief relatives of the 62 victims of last month's Sriwijaya Air crash in Jakarta on Wednesday morning ahead of the release of a preliminary report in the afternoon, a family member told Reuters.

Protesters returned to the streets of Myanmar's capital Naypyitaw on Wednesday after the most violent day yet in demonstrations against a coup that halted a tentative transition to democracy under elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

One of the lawyers heading former President Donald Trumps defense at his second impeachment trial did what Trump himself has not: conceded Joe Biden won the presidential election.

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana joined Democrats in voting against ending Donald Trump's impeachment trial Tuesday, a surprise reversal that Cassidy said was a response to the former president's lawyers doing a terrible job of arguing their case...

The military accused Suu Kyi's government of not investigating allegations of voter fraud in recent elections. Suu Kyi's party swept that vote and the military-backed party did poorly. The state election commission has refuted the allegations.

Across the United States and Canada, pollen season is starting 20 days earlier and pollen loads are 21% higher since 1990 and a huge chunk of that is because of global warming, a new study found in Mondays journal the Proceedings of the National Academies...

U.N. rights experts urged 57 states on Monday to repatriate nearly 10,000 of their citizens women and children associated with Islamic State fighters held in camps in northeast Syria in "subhuman" conditions without legal process.

South Africa halted the rollout of AstraZeneca's COVID19 vaccinations after data showed it gave minimal protection against mild infection from one variant, stoking fears of a much longer catandmouse battle with the pathogen.

China reported no new locally transmitted mainland COVID19 case for the first time in nearly two months, official data showed on Monday, adding to signs that it has managed to stamp out the latest wave of the disease.

George Shultz, the U.S. secretary of state who survived bitter infighting in President Ronald Reagan's administration to help forge a new era in AmericanSoviet relations and bring on the end of the Cold War, died on Saturday at age 100, the Californiabase...

U.S. President Joe Biden said the United States will not lift its economic sanctions on Iran in order to get Tehran back to the negotiating table to discuss how to revive the Iran nuclear deal, according to a video released by CBS News on Sunday.