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The Miami Dolphins quarterback at the center of the NFL’s overhaul of its concussion protocols and the Ukrainian city that’s home to Europe’s largest nuclear plant are among this year’s list of most mispronounced words.

The Biden administration said Monday that it would expand temporary legal status for Haitians already living in the United States, determining conditions in the Caribbean nation were too dangerous for their forced return.

New data shows an experimental Alzheimer’s drug modestly slowed the brain disease’s inevitable worsening. The next question is how much difference that might make in people’s lives.

Hundreds of people have gathered at Harvard University and near Chinese consulates in New York and Chicago to support protesters who have called for that country’s leader to step down amid severe anti-virus restrictions in the biggest demonstrations against the government in Beijing in decades.

Shanquella Robinson’s death at a resort development in the Baja resort town of San Jose del Cabo shocked people in both countries.

A girl was killed Saturday when she was struck by a vehicle towing a float for a holiday parade in North Carolina, police said

Republicans are getting ready to investigate President Joe Biden’s son Hunter next year when they take control of the U.S. House.

The retired bishop of Albany, New York, is asking Pope Francis to be removed from the priesthood. Emeritus Bishop Howard Hubbard announced the decision Friday in a statement.

Myanmar’s military-controlled government released an Australian academic, a Japanese filmmaker, an ex-British diplomat and an American as part of a broad prisoner amnesty that also freed many local citizens held for protesting the army takeover. Australia, the U.S. and rights groups welcomed the releases while calling for Myanmar to free others unjustly detained. State media said Australian Sean Turnell, Japan’s...

The office of Georgia’s attorney general says it will appeal a ruling that overturns a ban on most abortions starting around six weeks of pregnancy. The ruling Tuesday by a judge in Fulton County applies statewide. The ruling says the ban violated the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court precedent at the time it became law in 2019. The ban...

The United Nations says the world’s population is reaching the 8 billion mark on Tuesday. The projection came in a U.N. report released in July that said much of the growth expected between now and 2050 is coming from just eight countries.

U.S. and Cuban officials plan to meet in Havana on Tuesday to discuss migration policy. It would be the latest in a series of sessions between two governments with a historically icy relationship.

The Democrats retained control of the Senate after Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto defeated Republican Adam Laxalt in Nevada.

Chris Magnus had initially refused to step down from his job after a request by the Biden administration, an official from the Department of Homeland Security told NBC News.

“We are disappointed in the decision of the Texas court to block loan relief moving forward,” the U.S. Secretary of Education said Friday.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says Russia’s announced retreat from Kherson in southern Ukraine and a potential stalemate in fighting over the winter could provide both countries an opportunity to negotiate peace. Army Gen. Mark Milley says “well over 100,000 Russian soldiers” have been killed or wounded, with similar figures on the Ukrainian side. He says as...

The Powerball jackpot now stands at a record $1.9 billion after no ticket matched all six numbers during Saturday night’s lottery drawing.

Two South Korean miners who were rescued after being trapped deep underground for nine days say they survived on instant coffee powder and water falling from the ceiling of a blocked shaft.

More than three dozen people were injured, two critically, in a fire at a high-rise apartment building in Manhattan caused by a faulty battery, fire officials said.

The singer-rapper was found dead Saturday at his house in Lancaster, California