The Taliban has taken responsibility for a suicide bombing Thursday that killed five civilians, calling it retaliation for statements by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani blaming the Taliban for an attack against a maternity hospital in Kabul this week that killed 24 people, including two newborns.
Dozens of scientists are sitting in quarantine, waiting for permission to sail forth and capture a crucial moment in the polar calendar that's essential to their year-long Arctic research mission.
Sen. Richard Burr stepped aside as chairman of the Senate intelligence committee on Thursday after the FBI served a search warrant for his phone as part of an ongoing insider-trading investigation tied to the coronavirus pandemic.
A whistleblower who says he was removed from his government post for raising concerns about coronavirus preparedness told a congressional hearing on Thursday that the U.S. could face "the darkest winter" of recent times if it does not improve its response to the pandemic.
After three deadlocked and divisive elections, and a year and a half of political paralysis, Israel was finally swearing in a new government on Thursday, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu securing a historic fifth term in office thanks to a controversial power-sharing deal with rival-turned-partner Benny Gantz.
