The Associated Press

Mayor Eric Adams previously said it was unfair that a loophole in the vaccine rule allowed unvaccinated, visiting players and performers who don't work in New York to still play or perform.

The rulers' decision — reneging on a previous promise — came at the start of the new school year in Afghanistan and risks further alienating the international community.

A cold case team published what it called the "most likely scenario" of who betrayed the Jewish teen and her family. But a group of Dutch historians wrote an in-depth criticism of that work.

Wednesday's hearing is the second day of questioning. On Thursday, the committee will hear from legal experts before an eventual vote to move her nomination to the Senate floor.

The protest comes a couple of days after dozens of prominent leaders in Jamaica publicized a letter demanding that Britain apologize and award its former colony slavery reparations.

The storm reportedly leaves about 13,000 homes and businesses without power in the three parishes around New Orleans.

The students were in a passenger vehicle that collided with a semi in Tishomingo, a rural city located about 100 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson will face senators’ questions for the first time Tuesday as Democrats push to quickly confirm the court's Black female justice.

Southeastern states are in the pathway of a storm system that left widespread damage and some injuries in Texas.

The online address extends work by the Ukrainian leader to rally international support against Russia's invasion of his country.

Barring a significant misstep by Jackson, a federal judge for the past nine years, Democrats who control the Senate intend to wrap up her confirmation before Easter.

The local government also says it will suspend plans for a city-wide mass-testing exercise.

The grievances over sexual slavery, forced labor and other abuses stemming from Japan's WW II-era colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula have strained Seoul-Tokyo relations in recent years.

Prosecutors, who are in the early stages of the investigation, said there were no elements to suspect terrorism was behind the incident. Ten other people suffered life-threatening injuries.

Journalist Sierra Jenkins was at a restaurant and bar in Norfolk, Va., when shots rang out. She was caught in the crossfire. Three others were injured in the shooting.

Twenty other people, including children, were wounded in the shooting, according to authorities. One person was taken into custody, though there may have been multiple shooters, the police chief said.

There was no immediate word on casualties from the reported strike on the art school situated in the embattled port city of Mariupol.

Parts of Antarctica were more than 70 degrees warmer than average, and areas of the Arctic saw temperatures that were more than 50 degrees warmer than average.

His long-awaited reform program includes new institutional weight to efforts tight clerical sex abuse. He also envisages more decision-making roles for lay members of the Catholic Church.

The Marines were killed in the crash of a V-22B Osprey aircraft during a NATO exercise unrelated to the Ukraine war, officials said.