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The coronavirus pandemic has brought on a new level of vulnerability for Americans who lack health insurance. But fortunately for those who are uninsured or underinsured …

Cameron Grau, music artist and graduating senior at Sierra Vista High, was looking forward to one last chance to DJ for his peers at his school’s senior prom. But most in-person senior events, including prom and graduation, are presumed canceled or po…

Scarce supplies of medical equipment are leading to growing competition within the U.S. and among nations, in what one French politician called a “worldwide treasure hunt.”

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by fantasy sports contestants who claimed they were damaged by sign stealing in Major League Baseball.

The Trump administration has abruptly changed its description of the Strategic National Stockpile and put forward a narrower vision of the role the federal government’s repository of life-saving medicines and equipment should play in supplying states’…

A hacker posted a racial slur hundreds of times in an online fan video chat Friday with a black New York Rangers prospect.

President Donald Trump on Friday abruptly fired the inspector general of the intelligence community, sidelining an independent watchdog who played a pivotal role in his impeachment even as his White House struggled with the deepening coronavirus pande…

An odd new front in the U.S.-Russian rivalry has emerged as a Russian military cargo plane bearing a load of urgently needed medical supplies landed this week at New York’s JFK airport.

Marine Gunnery Sgt. Kevin Meyer does his best recruiting face-to-face. He can look people in the eye, read their body language and get insight into whether they would make a good Marine.

The singer Pink had tested positive for COVID-19, she said Friday, also announcing that she is donating $500,000 each to two emergency funds.