Facebook's Oversight Board on Wednesday upheld the social network's decision to ban former president Trump four months after Capitol riot, but also gave Facebook six months to review the decision. Facebook banned Trump indefinitely following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, citing posts that it said encouraged violence.
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The Biden administration supports temporarily lifting intellectual property protections for coronavirus vaccines and will move forward with international discussions to waive them, its top trade negotiator said on Wednesday. "This is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures.
Here's what to know: Facebook's Oversight Board upheld the social network's decision to ban the former president in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol by his supporters, but it also gave the company six months to review the decision. Trump is supporting Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.)
The birthrate in America fell 4 percent last year, marking the biggest annual decrease in almost half a century - suggesting the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated an already existing trend. New data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the birthrate in 2020 dropped for the sixth-consecutive year to its lowest point since U.S.
The Biden administration has zinged Russia and China over human rights and alleged thuggery against their neighbors, cut off some arms sales to Saudi Arabia, and stiff-armed Turkey's increasingly authoritarian leader. President Biden has also snubbed altogether some of former president Donald Trump's favorite global leaders.
Pentagon officials are considering new restrictions on service members' interactions with far-right groups, part of the military's reckoning with extremism, but the measures could trigger legal challenges from critics who say they would violate First Amendment rights.
Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to appoint an outside lawyer to review the records seized from Rudolph W. Giuliani - echoing the Justice Department's pursuit of a criminal case against a previous attorney for former president Donald Trump, Michael Cohen. In a letter unsealed Tuesday, federal prosecutors in Manhattan asked U.S.
When Achea Redd used to go for annual checkups, she tried to discuss her restrictive eating patterns with her doctors and her fear that she might have an eating disorder. But because her body mass index (BMI) was in the "overweight" category, Redd's primary care physicians refused to consider the possibility that she might be depriving herself of food and instead counseled her to lose weight, she said.
JERUSALEM - Yair Lapid, a former news anchor and leader of Israel's centrist opposition, was picked to negotiate a new governing coalition Wednesday, opening the possibility of Israel getting its first government not led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in more than a decade.
The Labor Department is rescinding a rule that made it harder for gig and contract workers to argue they were entitled to minimum wage and overtime protections, part of a push to undo Trump-era decisions that favoredbusinesses and employers.
Beset by a troublesome ankle and forced to cope with the Los Angeles Lakers' increasingly complicated title path, LeBron James added his voice to a chorus of NBA figures who are frustrated by the league's new postseason format, which has expanded from 16 to 20 teams by adding a play-in tournament.
Just hours before he was set to board a flight home to Argentina on Saturday, Santiago Solans Portillo received some news that appeared to throw a wrench in his travel plans: His coronavirus test had come back positive, authorities say.
The Rev. Al Sharpton began his remarks the way that so many ministers do. For the first few minutes that he stood at the lectern in his dark suit with a handkerchief billowing from his breast pocket like a cumulus cloud, he cleared his throat.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who led the effort in the Senate to contest President Biden's election victory, said he does not regret raising his fist to a pro-Trump mob gathered outside the Capitol on Jan. 6 ahead of the insurrection.
MINNEAPOLIS - The attorney for Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murder in the death of George Floyd, filed a motion for a new trial Tuesday, alleging that misconduct by the judge, prosecutors and jurors compromised his client's right to a fair trial.
After nearly a decade of disappointment in the Sunshine State, Democrats are throwing themselves back into the breach with a major effort to topple Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Fox News phenom and potential 2024 presidential contender, in a reelection race that will be a major test of whether Donald Trump's vision for the Republican Party has staying power in a closely divided state.
The deadly collapse of a subway overpass in Mexico's capital plunged the country into grief and political recriminations on Tuesday, putting top officials on the defensive as they faced questions about shoddy work and poor maintenance in one of the world's busiest subway systems. Twenty-four people were killed when a concrete slab bearing metro track through Mexico City gave way in a terrifying roar on Monday night, sending two train cars plummeting toward a highway below.
The White House on Tuesday told states that coronavirus vaccine doses they choose not to order will become available to other states - the most significant shift in domestic vaccine distribution since President Biden took office, and part of an effort to account for flagging demand in parts of the country.