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The U.S. Justice Department is considering whether to charge members of farright groups involved in the deadly Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol under a federal law usually used against organized crime, according to two law enforcement sources.

Some U.S. community health centers say they are doling out COVID19 shots far faster than government data suggests, likely accounting for some of a gap between how states and the federal government describe the availability of vaccine doses.

The fallout from the insurrection has been compounded by the death of an officer during the fight, another officer's subsequent suicide and a Covid outbreak that has infected dozens of people within the Capitol Police.

Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev won their respective singles matches on Wednesday to help Russia join Italy in the semifinals of the teambased ATP Cup in Melbourne.

President Joe Biden's nominee for education secretary is promising to help reopen schools but says much of the hardest work will come after that as schools try to address long-standing disparities worsened by the pandemic.

Struggling since last March to get the coronavirus under control in the world's fourth most populous nation, Indonesia has now surpassed one million confirmed cases and more than 30,000 deaths, the highest in Southeast Asia.

Israel will expand COVID19 vaccinations to include all citizens over the age of 16, officials said on Wednesday as cases and deaths surged again, setting back a predicted turnaround.

There's a crib in President Joe Biden's White House.

Britain's GlaxoSmithKline and German biotech firm CureVac have teamed up in a 150 million euro ($180 million) deal to develop a COVID19 vaccine from next year that could target several variants with one shot.

New Zealand on Wednesday warned against "vaccine nationalism" that could delay the rollout of international shipments after its medicines regulator provisionally approved the use of the PfizerBioNTech vaccine.

Sweden has seen an increased spread of the British COVID19 variant, with 11% of randomly screened positive tests last week showing the mutation, thought to be a more contagious form of the virus, the Public Health Agency said on Tuesday.

Myanmar's coup leader Min Aung Hlaing told the first meeting of his new government on Tuesday that it was inevitable the army would have to take power after its protests over alleged election fraud last year which the electoral commission had dismissed,...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday will order a major review of asylum processing at the U.S.Mexico border and the legal immigration system as he seeks to undo some of former President Donald Trump's hardline policies, two senior administration officials...

New rules took effect just before midnight Tuesday requiring millions of travelers in the United States to wear masks on airplanes, trains, buses, ferries, taxis and rideshare vehicles and in airports, stations, ports and other transit hubs.

Chicago Public Schools and the city's teachers union said progress was made on Monday in talks on a COVID19 safety plan, putting on hold a threatened confrontation over the district's plan to resume inperson classes for thousands of students.

President Joe Biden is threatening to slap new sanctions on Myanmar after a coup that saw the military arrest the civilian leaders of its government.