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The United States has administered 247,769,049 doses of COVID19 vaccines in the country as of Tuesday morning and distributed 318,474,035 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday.

A federal agency said Tuesday that machines designed to inject extra oxygen for fish to breathe in the Savannah harbor passed a second round of tests that were required as part of the $973 million deepening of the shipping channel to the Port of Savannah.

Madrid's conservative regional leader won a landslide reelection on Tuesday, propelled to victory by her refusal to close down bars and shops during the COVID19 pandemic.

Egypt and Turkey will hold two days of political consultations in Cairo on Wednesday and Thursday as part of a push to mend ties between the regional rivals, the two countries said.

The conservative leader of Spain's Madrid region, who for months defied the leftist central government by keeping bars and shops open during the COVID19 pandemic, won a regional election on Tuesday, preliminary results and opinion polls showed.

Polish lawmakers have voted to approve the nations spending plan for the 58 billion euros ($70 billion) it expects to receive from the European Unions pandemic recovery plan.

A 2-year-old girl rescued from a Maryland bay after a five-vehicle crash on a bridge has been released from a hospital and is expected to make a full recovery, according to authorities.

Brazil's indigenous affairs agency Funai has called on a top indigenous leader to explain her criticism of the rightwing government of President Jair Bolsonaro and the impact its handling of the COVID19 crisis has had on native people.

Striker Michail Antonio scored twice on his return from injury to fire West Ham United to a 21 win at Burnley on Monday which lifted them up to fifth place in the Premier League and kept alive their hopes of Champions League football next season.

More than a dozen people, including seven soldiers, were killed by Islamist militants in an attack in northeast Nigeria, four sources told Reuters.

Olympia Dukakis, the veteran stage and screen actress whose flair for maternal roles helped her win an Oscar as Chers mother in the romantic comedy Moonstruck, has died. She was 89.

Kansas' highest court on Friday upheld a law barring socalled wrongful birth lawsuits against doctors, in a case in which a couple sued because they weren't told of serious fetal defects until after an abortion could have been obtained.

New Zealanders are still reporting negative impacts on mental health and income from the coronavirus pandemic, despite living in one of the world's few countries to have largely returned to normal.

A record surge in COVID19 infections in Costa Rica forced the government to announce new restrictions Thursday that will dial back the countrys economic reopening.

Oklahoma public school teachers would be prohibited from teaching certain concepts of race and racism under a bill given final approval by the state House on Thursday.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with how to resolve a clash between the state of New Jersey and a pipeline company over land the company needs for a natural gas pipeline.