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Several districts are keeping their mask mandates in place despite an executive order by Gov. Ron DeSantis that leaves it up to parents to decide whether their children wear face coverings in school.

The Justice Department will be probing the Phoenix police's use of force and their treatment of the city's homeless.

COVID-19 vaccination rates remain perilously low around the world. The WHO has called for a moratorium on booster shots until every country can immunize at least 10% of its population.

Iran is inaugurating new president Ebrahim Raisi — someone already under U.S. sanctions for his role in executions in the 1980s, and who is expected to take a hard line in dealings with the West.

In Massachusetts, heat in the winter is a public health necessity. Now with summer temperatures climbing, some public health experts say cooling aid is becoming a health priority too.

The World Health Organization says it is not the time to give out booster shots. President Biden will unveil proposed rules aimed at fighting climate change. Iran's new president takes office.

It was not the color medal the U.S. had hoped for, but it was a better result than at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics when the USWNT was bounced out of tournament in the quarterfinals.

Having just had her flight canceled, a Missouri woman’s luck quickly changed when she won $1 million from a Florida Lottery scratch-off ticket.

"If we didn't lead this fight, nobody would," says a Beirut resident whose 3-year-old daughter was among the 217 killed in the blast. An official investigation has stalled. No one has been prosecuted.

The state attorney general's office corroborated multiple sexual harassment allegations against Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The report also said that the Cuomo administration was a "hostile work environment."