Blue Origin is set to make spaceflight history Thursday, sending the first person who uses a wheelchair beyond the Krmn line - the internationally recognized edge of space - on its next New Shepard mission.

Millions of microscopic, single-celled organisms live in the human body, and most of them play a beneficial role in keeping people healthy, Dr. Gary Small, director of behavioral health breakthrough therapies at Hackensack Meridian Health in New Jersey, told Newsmax on...

A House of Representatives committee on Thursday voted unanimously to approve legislation aiming to prevent aviation disruptions during government shutdowns by ensuring air traffic controllers and other key workers are paid.

The Chinese lab allegedly responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic has filed a $50 billion lawsuit against Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., accusing him of ruining its reputation.

The Department of Homeland Security highlighted what it has labelled the "worst of the worst" of recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests in a Christmas-themed press release, urging the public to view featured cases on its "Worst of the Worst" portal. In an email...

A Boston-area man was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for the grisly murder of his wife, who disappeared nearly three years ago and whose body has never been found. Brian Walshe was convicted Monday of first-degree murder in the killing of Ana Walshe.

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., called for Brown University's president to testify before Congress and answer questions regarding last weekend's on-campus fatal shooting of two students. "It seems very clear to me that the president of Brown University will need to be hauled in...

The new leader of the Roman Catholic Church's New York Archdiocese offered a greeting in Spanish on Thursday, when he implored the U.S. to be a "country that upholds human dignity"while also protecting its borders and keeping its laws.

U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell by 13,000 last week, remaining in the same historically healthy range of the past few years even as concerns grow about the health of the labor market.

Moderna will get up to $54.3 million in funding from a global coalition to support late-stage development of its experimental bird flu vaccine, the U.S. drugmaker said on Thursday. The vaccine, mRNA-1018, would be the first mRNA-based bird flu vaccine to enter a pivotal...

With the search for the Brown University shooter in its fifth day Wednesday, authorities were asking the public to review any security or phone footage from the week before the attack in the hopes it might help investigators identify the person, believing the attacker may...

U.S. inflation decelerated unexpectedly last month, the government said in a report that was delayed by the government shutdown.The Labor Department reported Thursday that its consumer price index was up 2.7% in November from a year earlier.

A 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck 18 km (11 miles) off eastern Taiwan's Hualien city on Thursday, the island's weather administration said, with no immediate reports of damage. The quake briefly shook buildings in the capital, Taipei.

Eli Lilly's oral pill, orforglipron, helped maintain weight loss in patients switching from injectable versions of GLP-1 drugs, the company said on Thursday, in a boost to deliver a more convenient obesity treatment option. An oral weight-loss pill would help Lilly further...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the "poison" of antisemitism must be defeated by people of all faiths. Speaking at a Hanukkah reception at 10 Downing Street, Starmer vowed to "root out" anti-Jewish hatred and urged British Jews not to be "cowed by terror."

Nearly one in every 10 retail items that are returned for a refund in the U.S. is fraudulent, according to a UPS-owned reverse logistics company that says it plans to combat the $76.5 billion problem for the country's retailers with artificial intelligence.

Pope Leo on Thursday decried political leaders who invoke religious beliefs to justify conflicts or nationalist policies, calling that a form of blasphemy, or a serious sin that disrespects or insults God.

The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russia was preparing for contacts with the United States to get details about U.S. talks with European powers and Ukraine on a possible peace settlement to end the Ukraine conflict. Politico reported that U.S. and Russian officials are...

Australia's prime minister vowed Thursday to stamp out extremism as the nation mourned the youngest victim of the Bondi Beach shooting, a 10-year-old girl remembered as "our little ray of sunshine."

Israel carried out a series of airstrikes on southern and northeastern Lebanon on Thursday as a deadline looms to disarm the militant Hezbollah group along the tense frontier. The strikes came a day before a meeting of the committee monitoring the enforcement of a...

China's newest and most advanced aircraft carrier, the CNS Fujian, sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday in a high-profile demonstration of Beijing's expanding naval power, Taiwan's Defense Ministry said.

Officials at Harvard University have begun a secret disciplinary investigation into two students who posted videos of the university's former president, Larry Summers, discussing his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Federal agents arrested 44 protesters Tuesday after demonstrators chained themselves to the entrance of San Francisco's immigration courthouse, blocking access to the building.

Two Senate Democrats have placed holds on the nomination of Adm. Kevin Lunday to lead the Coast Guard after the service issued an updated workplace harassment policy that refers to swastikas and nooses as "potentially divisive" symbols, language that lawmakers say downplays ...

Rep. Seth Magaziner, D-R.I. said House Democratic leadership willintroducea discharge petition next month to force a vote on a bill that would ban stock trading by members of Congress, the vice president, the president, and their immediate families, the Hill reported.