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President Joe Biden and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan have known each other for years, but their meeting Monday will be their first as heads of state

The two leaders signed a document “building on the commitments and aspirations set out 80 years go” by predecessors Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in the Atlantic Charter

The U.S. saw remarkable increases in the death rates for heart disease, diabetes and some other common killers last year

The Biden administration has informed Russia that it will not rejoin a key arms control pact even as the two sides prepare for a summit next month between their leaders.

President Joe Biden and Russia’s Vladimir Putin have agreed to meet next month in Geneva

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has agreed to a one-month extension to the deal on surveillance cameras at its nuclear sites

Protesters yell and wave signs outside Mississippi’s only abortion clinic on the three or four days it is open each week

North Korea has warned the United States will face a “very grave situation” and alleged that President Joe Biden made a “big blunder” in his recent speech by calling the North a security threat

U.S. colleges hoping for a return to normalcy next fall are weighing how far they should go in urging students to get the COVID-19 vaccine, including whether they should — or legally can — require it

Migrant families will be held at hotels in the Phoenix area in response to a growing number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, another step in the Biden’s administration rush to set up temporary space

China has accused the U.S. of causing humanitarian disasters through foreign military interventions in Beijing’s latest broadside in increasingly contentious relations with the Biden administration

With its long-term facilities for immigrant children nearly full, the Biden administration is working to expedite the release of children to their relatives in the U.S. U.S. Health and Human Services on Wednesday authorized operators of long-term facilities to pay for some of the children’s flights and transportation to the homes of their sponsors

The top American and Chinese diplomats have held phone talks in the first major exchange between the countries since President Joe Biden took office and touched on several critical issues straining their ties

As the United States rolls out the Pfizer vaccine for health care workers and nursing home residents, the Food and Drug Administration confirmed Tuesday the effectiveness and safety of the Moderna and the National Institutes of Health vaccine, bringing the shot to the cusp of U.S. authorization.

The United States reached a grim milestone Monday, surpassing 300,000 total coronavirus-related deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a tally by NBC News.

On Monday, the United States saw its first COVID-19 vaccinations but also reached a grim milestone of 300,000 total deaths, according to a tally by NBC News.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, marking the first major, tantalizing indication for Americans that the pandemic’s days may be numbered.

The United States continues to set new pandemic records – on Thursday, the country reported more than 225,000 new coronavirus cases and 3,100 deaths, according to a tally by NBC News.

The U.S. set another record of new daily COVID-19 cases on Thursday with more than 225,000 a day after reporting more than 3,000 COVID-related deaths, the highest one-day total of deaths yet.