Pfizer Inc. plans to ask U.S. regulators to authorize a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine within the next month, the drugmaker's top scientist said on Thursday, based on evidence of greater risk of reinfection six months after inoculation and the spread of the highly contagious delta variant.
Zaila Avant-garde from Harvey, La., breezed to the championship at the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night, becoming the first African American winner and only the second Black champion in the bee's 96-year history.
President Joe Biden on Thursday said "speed is safety" as the United States seeks to end the nearly 20-year war.
Michael Avenatti, the brash California lawyer who once represented Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against then-president Donald Trump, was sentenced Thursday to two and half years in prison for trying to extort up to $25 million US from Nike by threatening the company with bad publicity.
Developing nations, UN seek clear plan for promised climate finance
An already struggling and chaotic Haiti stumbled into an uncertain future Thursday, reeling from the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse followed by a reported gun battle in which authorities said police killed four suspects in the murder, detained two others and freed three officers being held hostage.
Crews searching the collapsed condominium tower near Miami recovered an additional six bodies, bringing the death toll to 60, officials said on Thursday, one day after declaring there was no longer hope of finding anyone alive.
The pairing of Rodgers and Bryson DeChambeau proved too much for Brady and Phil Mickelson in The Match on Tuesday at The Reserve at Moonlight Basin in Big Sky, Mont.
China has criticized what it called the "politicization of sports" after British lawmakers urged a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics unless China allows an investigation of complaints of human rights abuses in its northwest.
South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma, who has been in police detention since Wednesday night as he starts a 15-month prison sentence for contempt, will be eligible for parole after around four months, the justice minister said.
IOC President Thomas Bach arrived in Tokyo on Thursday just as a ban on spectators at the Tokyo Olympics is likely after Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihde Suga announced a state of emergency because of rising coronavirus infections in the capital.
The uncle of a teenager who recorded the last moments of George Floyd's life in a video that helped launch a global protest movement against racial injustice has died in a crash involving a Minneapolis police car, officials confirmed Wednesday.
For many people, restrictions on cross-border travel are no big deal. For others, it’s been a life-altering mess. That includes residents of one unusual U.S. community stranded by the Canadian border, who are fuming that these rules have them imprisoned in what’s usually a maritime paradise.
