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A European Union high court ruled that technology giant Apple does not have to pay $15 billion in back taxes to Ireland, as the EU's executive commission wants.

Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions lost the Republican nomination for his old Senate seat in Alabama to former college football coach Tommy Tuberville, likely ending a long political career with a bitter defeat egged on by President Donald Trump.

The takeaway from Trump's speech: It began like a news conference and turned into a campaign rally, without the customary cheers.

National politics, like much in American life, becomes a hostage of the coronavirus with no end in sight.

A federal judge announced the decision as a court hearing was getting underway on a challenge to the rule by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The first COVID-19 vaccine tested in the U.S. revved up people's immune systems just the way scientists had hoped, researchers reported Tuesday -- as the shots are poised to begin key final testing.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was being treated for a possible infection, the Supreme Court said in a statement.

Grant Imahara, the electrical engineer and roboticist who rose to fame as a host of the show "MythBusters," died Monday at the age of 49, according to Discovery Channel.

The U.S. government carried out the first federal execution in almost two decades, putting to death a man who killed an Arkansas family in a 1990s in a plot to build a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest. 

Trump suggests "lying" conspirators are out to get him about the coronavirus. Health experts say the victims of his suspicion are the confused public.