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The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite both fell slightly as trading closed on Wall Street Thursday, ending a streak of five consecutive sessions with gains.

A 9-year-old Kenyan boy was given an award by the country's president for inventing a hand-washing machine designed to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

The Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine announced Thursday that the authors of published studies on use of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 have retracted their findings.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday sent a letter to President Donald Trump expressing concern about the "increased militarization" in response to police brutality demonstrations.

A San Diego theme park that has to keep a roller coaster running every day despite the coronavirus lockdown has recruited some unusual passengers immune to the virus -- stuffed animals.

Facebook said Thursday that starting this summer it will no longer allow state-controlled media to run ads on its network out of an abundance of caution against 2020 election interference.

Some people may simply be born with an ear for music, according to a new study.

Some people may simply be born with an ear for music, according to a new study.

A new law allowing public school districts to offer elective social studies classes on the Bible to students in ninth grade or above took effect this week in West Virginia.

George Floyd's family praised him as a "powerful man" who "would stand up for injustice anywhere" during his memorial Thursday in Minneapolis.

Cristobal weakened to a depression with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph as it continued to crawl across southern Mexico unleashing flooding rainfall on Thursday.

Alstom announced Thursday that it has agreed with Snam on a plan to develop hydrogen-powered trains in Italy next year.

An Australian man who bought his first scratch-off lottery ticket at the urging of a store clerk ended up returning to give her a reward when he scored a $70,000 jackpot.

One in five visits to hospital emergency rooms in the United States involve seniors 60 years and older -- and 7 percent of patients in hospital ERs come from nursing homes -- according to new CDC data.

There's been a nearly 60 percent drop in broken bones among U.S. children during the coronavirus pandemic, but the rate of fractures that occur at home has climbed, a new study finds.

A Florida resident shared video of a parade of blue land crabs marching next to her home after recent rains forced them out of the ground.

An India resident who noticed baby snakes inside his home opened up his air conditioning unit and found about 40 snakes slithering around inside.

The USS Theodore Roosevelt left Apra Harbor at Naval Base Guam Thursday to continue its scheduled deployment in the Indo-Pacific, the Navy has announced.

Iran freed U.S. Navy veteran Michael White after nearly two years in custody Thursday, and he is on his way home, his mother said.

K-pop group Stray Kids shared a teaser for "Go," the lead single from its forthcoming album of the same name.

Rockstar Games has announced it will shut down access to games "Grand Theft Auto Online" and "Red Dead Redemption Online" in honor of George Floyd.

The number of Americans suffering from mental health disorders like anxiety and depression have more than tripled during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey.

About one-third of recent college graduates said they were "strongly" confident that their alma mater would have fully investigated a sexual assault allegation raised by them on campus, a new survey found.

One of the men charged in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia says he heard the accused triggerman call Arbery a racial slur as the unarmed jogger lay dying, a state investigator testified Thursday.

K-pop group BTS shared a message of solidarity and released "Still with You," a new solo song by Jungkook.