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Older adults who are childless in the U.S. are more likely to be college educated, working and white than those with children, and their numbers are growing.

Experts point to a fierce power struggle that has broken out since the Taliban seized Kabul on August 14.

A giant C-17 transport laden with troops and the US ambassador flew out of Kabul airport a minute before midnight local time on August 31, the deadline set by the US President Joe Biden.

An ongoing audit of Dallas police crime data found that the data missing from the citys computer database is almost triple the initial estimate, city officials said Monday.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson's wife has been moved from intensive care back into a regular room at the Chicago hospital where she's being treated for COVID19, her family said in a statement Monday.

Louisiana hospitals in the path of Hurricane Ida were forced to evacuate dozens of patients after the storm left them with pieces torn off their roofs, and water leaking down walls to pool on floors as they relied on emergency generators for electricity.

A new Florida law designed to deter violent public demonstrations is instead unconstitutionally chilling free speech and legitimate rights to protest, a federal judge was told Monday.

A spokesman for the Office for Foreigners denied the children had eaten the mushrooms because they were being fed only twice a day and were hungry.

"The soldiers of the caliphate targeted Kabul's international airport with six... rockets," the group said in a statement.

Britain had said its evacuation mission would end within hours and that its military would be unable to fly out any Afghan citizens eligible for resettlement.

Police discovered two containers Saturday in a backyard in suburban Chicago, a few days after a man told investigators that the bodies of his mother and sister were buried there years ago, an official said.

Fourteen bodies were found on Saturday.

US intelligence has ruled out that the coronavirus was developed as a weapon, and most agencies assess with "low confidence" it was not genetically engineered.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Nora is strengthening and could bring dangerous flash floods and mudslides through the weekend.

Afghan journalist Bilal Sarwary began his career in 2001 helping cover the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan and subsequent fall of the Taliban. Never in the 20 years since did he imagine Kabul would once again fall to the Islamist militant group, he said.

A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a lower court's ruling that said requiring voters to provide their own stamps for mailin ballots and ballot applications does not amount to an unconstitutional poll tax.