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President Joe Biden is set to announce that the United States is doubling its purchase of Pfizer's COVID-19 shots to share with the world to 1 billion doses as he embraces the goal of vaccinating 70% of the global population within the next year.

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday sued his estranged niece and The New York Times over a 2018 story about his family's wealth and tax practices that was partly based on confidential documents she provided to the newspaper's reporters.

In his first address before the U.N. General Assembly today, President Biden decried military conflict and insisted the U.S. is not seeking "a new Cold War" with China.

A timeline of events leading up to and following the disappearance of Gabrielle Petito, the Blue Point native reported missing while on a cross-country road trip with her fiance, Brian Laundrie.

Johnson & Johnson released data showing that a booster dose to its one-shot coronavirus vaccine provides a strong immune response months after people receive a first dose.

Canadians gave Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party a victory in the parliamentary elections, but his gamble to win a majority of seats failed.

A doctor who said he performed an abortion in defiance of a new Texas law all but dared supporters of the state's near-total ban on the procedure to try making an early example of him by filing a lawsuit — and by Monday two people obliged.

The U.S. population a century ago was just one-third of what it is today, meaning the flu cut a much bigger, more lethal swath through the country. But the COVID-19 crisis is by any measure a colossal tragedy in its own right.

President Joe Biden will ease foreign travel restrictions into the U.S. beginning in November, when his administration will require all foreign nationals flying into the country to be fully vaccinated.

The search of a Florida park and wildlife preserve for Petito's fiance, Brian Laundrie, labeled a "person of interest" by police, was suspended today.