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However, the effect of a passive vaccination is almost immediate, whereas with an active vaccination it has to build up first, the researchers said.

Considered something of a lightweight on foreign policy issues, Japans new prime minister has spent much of his career in the shadows, supporting previous leader Shinzo Abe with backroom bureaucratic maneuvers and in largely scripted, sometimes prickly de...

A Kentucky woman is sending out what she calls an urgent plea after a box containing her mother's cremated remains went missing after she mailed it to her sister in Florida.

Angry restaurant and bar owners are demonstrating in Marseille to challenge a French government order to close all public venues as of Saturday to battle resurgent virus infections.

Concerns a Taiwan bird group was bent on promoting the Chineseclaimed island's independence drove a British charity to ditch ties with them, according to letters published on Friday, as a complex geopolitical tangle entered the world of conservation.

India reported another 86,052 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, a declining trend with recoveries exceeding new cases this week.

The object is likely to enter into a distant orbit around Earth in late November, and if it's an asteroid it would be considered a mini-moon. However, if it is a booster rocket as Chodas suspects, it will just be another piece of space debris floating aro...

Democrat Amy McGrath called for fundamental change to combat systemic racism" as the Senate candidate met Thursday with some of the Kentucky protesters seething over a grand jury's decision not to charge officers in the killing of Breonna Taylor.

The leader of Canadas New Democratic Party voiced support Thursday for proposed legislation on higher emergency benefits for workers, a move that could keep Prime Minister Justin Trudeaus minority Liberal government in power.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans on Thursday repudiated President Donald Trump's refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and assured American voters that November's election outcome will be accepted.

The Canadian province of Ontario on Thursday moved to limit COVID19 testing as labs struggled to keep up with demand, and some doctors called for immediate restrictions on nonessential businesses as the country entered a second wave of infections.

As the decision in Kentucky to bring charges against only one of three police officers involved in a raid that killed Breonna Taylor sparks renewed protests nationwide, a new survey finds support has fallen for demonstrations against systemic racism.

Congressional Republicans pushed back Thursday after President Donald Trump again declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the Nov. 3 presidential election.

A girl was killed and her parents and brother were injured when their home in Oklahoma City exploded Thursday morning, fire officials said.