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Harvard President Claudine Gay will continue to lead the prestigious Ivy League institution despite intense criticism following her comments at a recent congressional hearing on antisemitism, the university’s highest governing body announced Tuesday.  

Wildfire smoke is known for producing and spreading high levels of harmful fine particulates, but it may also be creating carcinogenic soil and ash, according to new research.

A former student of the man who fatally shot three people at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said he resigned from a tenured teaching position after making sexual comments about an outfit she wore to class. 

For civilians in Gaza, there's increasingly nowhere to go. Israel's campaign against the militant group Hamas has already driven out most of the population in the territory's north, turning some of the densest urban areas on the planet into hollowed-out moonscapes. The focus has shifted to the south, where battles are intensifying around the city of Khan Younis, forcing hundreds of thousands more Palestinian civilians to flee their homes.

A federal judge Tuesday excoriated Rudy Giuliani for saying he planned to testify that false voting fraud allegations he made against two former Fulton County election workers are true.

The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider special counsel Jack Smith's request to fast-track consideration of Donald Trump's claim he is immune from prosecution for alleged election obstruction in 2020 - intensifying the legal jockeying over whether Trump's criminal trial in D.C. will stay on schedule for early next year.

Kate Cox has left the state to get an abortion following a late-night decision Friday by the Texas Supreme Court that blocked her ability to terminate her nonviable pregnancy under a medical exemption.

Opening statements are set to begin Monday afternoon in the trial of former Trump attorney and ex-New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who could be on the hook for up to $43.5 million in damages in a defamation lawsuit filed against him by two Georgia election workers.

Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday asked the Supreme Court to quickly consider former president Donald Trump's claims that he is immune from prosecution for alleged election obstruction in 2020 - an aggressive legal move designed to keep Trump's trial on track for early next year.

WASHINGTON – In a bipartisan vote on Monday, the House passed a bill championed by a Spokane Republican that aims to increase transparency in health care pricing and ultimately reduce medical costs.

The Biden campaign came out Monday hammering Missouri Republicans for proposed legislation in the state House and Senate that would allow murder charges to be brought against women who have had abortions, linking the proposal to the legacy of former President Donald Trump.

The most famous comet of all is headed back toward Earth. Halley’s comet reached aphelion — its farthest point from the sun — on Dec. 8, at which point it began its long journey back to the sun.

A divided Supreme Court on Monday turned down a Christian group's free-speech challenge to the laws in California and 21 other states that forbid licensed counselors from using "conversion therapy" with children and teenagers.

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy is headed to Washington for talks with President Joe Biden and U.S. congressional leaders, signaling a push to energize support among his country’s allies almost two years into Russia’s invasion.

The Israeli military pounded the Gaza Strip with strikes over the weekend and said some Hamas fighters had surrendered in northern Gaza as it intensified its offensive in the south.