A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday night allowed Texas to temporarily resume banning most abortions, just one day after clinics across the state began rushing to serve patients again for the first time since early September.
The United States will accept international visitors inoculated with COVID-19 vaccines authorized by U.S. regulators or the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
U.S. President Joe Biden is not asserting executive privilege over a tranche of documents sought by a House committee's investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, setting up a showdown with former president Donald Trump.
German police are investigating several cases of the mysterious "Havana syndrome" at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin. The illness is believed to have affected around 200 U.S. officials and family members at embassies around the world.
Under the agreement announced Friday, countries would enact a global minimum corporate tax of 15 per cent on the biggest, internationally active firms, reaping an estimated $150 billion US for government coffers once implemented.
Brazil was set on Friday to become the second country in the world to pass 600,000 COVID-19 deaths, a dark milestone for a government that has been sharply criticized by health experts for mismanaging the pandemic.
Former U.S. president Donald Trump's businesses tried to hide millions of dollars in payments from foreign governments that flowed through his unprofitable hotel in downtown Washington, D.C., a U.S. congressional committee said on Friday.
Abuse allegations made by National Women's Soccer League players against authority figures are symptomatic of a sports culture that prioritizes winning over anything else and thus limits player power, says one expert.
Australian doctors warned a too-rapid easing of COVID-19 curbs in Sydney could put pressure on health systems and risk lives, as the city prepares for key restrictions to be relaxed next week after more than 100 days in lockdown.
A Taliban police official says at least 100 people have been killed or wounded in a mosque explosion targeting Shia Muslims in northern Afghanistan. Dost Mohammad Obaida says the "majority of them have been killed."
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia.
As international tension simmered this week over Taiwan, there was a not-so-subtle display of allied military solidarity in the Pacific — one that included a Canadian frigate.
A powerful magnitude 5.9 earthquake shook the Tokyo area on Thursday night, injuring more than 30 people, damaging underground water pipes and halting trains and subways.
