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A former Facebook employee compared the social network to big tobacco at a Senate hearing, saying the company has hidden what it knows about the harms of its products.

A major oil spill off the coast of Southern California fouled popular beaches and killed wildlife while crews scrambled Sunday, to contain the crude before it spread further.

Larger cities including Philadelphia have already exhausted their first tranche of money and are concerned about running through the second tranche in the coming months.

Getting vaccinated, keeping a mask handy and social distancing remain at the top of the CDC's guidance for people wanting to avoid the coronavirus.

Facebook prematurely turned off safeguards designed to thwart misinformation and rabble-rousing after Biden defeated Trump in last year’s elections, a whistleblower alleges.

The Los Angeles Times reports birds and fish have been killed. Crews have deployed skimmers and booms to try to corral the slick.

President Biden will meet with the Senate next week to discuss debt-ceiling delays before going on the road to advocate for his Build Back Better agenda and the bipartisan inf

Not a single hurricane has hit Puerto Rico this year, but hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. territory feel like they’re living in the aftermath of a major storm.

Many states and cities across the U.S. are getting off to a slow start in spending money from this year's coronavirus relief package.

Mohammed Khalifa produced propaganda videos for ISIS, many depicting murder and used to recruit Westerners, prosecutors allege.

Lisa Baird has resigned after some 19 months on the job amid allegations that a former coach engaged in sexual harassment and misconduct.

It took 3 ½ months for the U.S. to go from 600,000 to 700,000 deaths, driven by the variant’s rampant spread through unvaccinated Americans.

Public health data experts have a new way to calculate the under-reporting of people killed by police. Criminologists call the results "interesting," but are reserving judgmen

What qualifies as fighting COVID-19 or promoting economic recovery is often left up to the people spending the money.

The program's confusing requirements led to crowds of frustrated borrowers being denied debt relief. The ed dept. will soon announce a series of long-term and temporary fixes.