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Argentinian soccer great Diego Maradona has died after undergoing surgery for a subdural hematoma earlier this month. He was 60 years old.

The White House transition is formally moving ahead. President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday introduced his picks for high-level cabinet positions focused on national security and intelligence. Biden pointed to the nominees’ experience, while answering criticism they could represent a return to the status quo. “We cannot meet these challen...

Mercy Hospital is in the St. Louis, Mo., area, which is in danger of running out of hospital rooms for its most critical patients.

Body camera footage shows the moment Ohio police saved a woman who crashed into a river over the weekend.

Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of the painkiller Oxycontin, pleaded guilty to charges for its role in the opioid crisis. 

President Donald Trump issued a presidential pardon to Iowa turkeys Corn and Cob on Tuesday. The duo will spend their retirement at Iowa State University to educate people on the state’s turkey industry.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who President-elect Joe Biden has nominated as U.S. ambassador the United Nations, said she has a message for diplomats around the world. “America is back,” Thomas-Greenfield said. “Multilateralism is back. Diplomacy is back.”

John Kerry, President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for special presidential envoy for climate, said solving the climate change crisis will take collaboration. “No country alone can solve this challenge,” Kerry said. “To end this crisis, the whole world must come together. Failure is not an option.”

“Mr. President-elect, you know that I’ve never shied away from speaking truth to power,” President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, said on Tuesday. “You value the perspective of the intelligence community, and [I know] that you will do so even when what I have to say may be inconvenient or difficult, and ...

Weeks after election day, the Trump administration has lifted the main road block that prevented official transition efforts of President-elect Joe Biden and his team. While insisting his legal challenges aimed at overturning the election results continue and he believes he will prevail, President Trump gave the green light to Emily Murphy, the con...

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar gave an update on Operation Warp Speed on Tuesday and suggested that if vaccine data continues to be promising, vaccines could be deployed to the most vulnerable Americans before the end of the year.

Three weeks after the presidential election, the U.S. General Services Administration contacted President-elect Joe Biden on Monday to begin the transition process.