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The number of hate crimes in the United States rose last year to the highest level in more than a decade, driven by a rise in assaults targeting Black victims and victims of Asian descent, the FBI reported on Monday.

Thousands of people rushed to leave South Lake Tahoe as the entire resort city came under evacuation orders and wildfire raced toward Lake Tahoe, a large freshwater lake straddling the California-Nevada border.

The new head chaplain at Harvard University is an atheist and “ordained humanist rabbi,” Christian Headlines reports. Greg Epstein, 44, was the unanimous first choice of a selection committee made up of a Lutheran, an evangelical Christian, a Christian Scientist, and a Bahá’í.

Just 24 hours before a suicide bomber detonated an explosive outside Hamid Karzai International Airport, senior military leaders gathered for the Pentagon’s daily morning update on the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan.

The U.S. Marine relieved of his command for calling out his superiors over the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal that led to the deaths of 13 service members said Sunday he was officially resigning.

Hurricane Ida, one of America’s most powerful storms on record, hit southeast Louisiana Sunday, killing at least one person. The storm wreaked havoc precisely 16 years after Hurricane Katrina slammed New Orleans, leaving more than 1,800 people dead.

The Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration’s COVID-19 eviction moratorium, allowing evictions to resume.

Roughly one-third of the U.S. population had been infected by the coronavirus by the end of 2020, according to a new study that appears to show how widespread but underreported the virus was.

A key inflation indicator rose 3.6 percent in July from last year — its biggest year-over-year jump in 30 years — as costs continued to build in the US economy, the feds said Friday.

The United States said Thursday its economy grew at an annualized 6.6% rate in the April-to-June period as the world’s largest economy continued its recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Thursday that Tropical Storm Ida in the Caribbean Sea was likely to become a major hurricane and reach the United States on Sunday.

A wildfire that burned several homes near Los Angeles may signal that the region is facing the same dangers that have scorched Northern California this summer.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday ordered all U.S. service members be vaccinated immediately for COVID-19.

Former President Donald Trump said that the House of Representatives’s Jan. 6 committee is just distracting Americans from President Joe Biden’s “failures,” adding that he will defend his executive privilege.

President Biden asked executives from major tech companies, banks, and other businesses taking part in a White House summit Wednesday to brainstorm solutions to the onslaught of hacks and cyberattacks damaging the country’s economy.

The House select committee probing the January 6 insurrection is escalating its efforts to put together a picture of former President Donald Trump’s communications with key allies and right-wing media personalities in the lead up to the Capitol riot.

The House Tuesday voted on a deal to adopt the framework for President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion budget and advance the bipartisan infrastructure bill after Democratic leadership and moderates broke an hours-long stalemate over how the two would be prioritized in the coming weeks.

House Democrats in a party-line vote Tuesday approved restoring the Justice Department’s lapsed authority under the Voting Rights Act to block new state election laws deemed too restrictive.

The Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s ruling to order the Biden administration to continue the “Remain in Mexico” policy implemented by the Trump administration.

A new study has found that, after decades of public opinion on the issue being evenly divided, a majority of Americans now say they believe in the theory of evolution, Israel365 News reports. The study was published by the University of Michigan in the journal Public Understanding of Science.