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The Irish government on Friday announced strict new limits on the hospitality sector and home visits to try to push down COVID19 infection rates after officials said the new Omicron variant was likely to add to pressure on the health service.

The number is likely to grow as sequencing is carried out on other positive tests from party-goers.

Asked at a press conference Thursday about the pick, Merkel said it harked back to her younger days in communist East Germany.

Milwaukee County's top prosecutor said Thursday that a young assistant in his office rushed to set $1,000 bail for a man before he allegedly drove his vehicle through a Christmas parade because she was overworked and never saw his risk assessment.

Just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court concluded historic arguments over abortion, a federal appeals court signaled it might be willing to allow yet another restrictive ban to go into effect.

Police plan to announce an update Thursday in the fatal shooting of Jacqueline Avant, a philanthropist and the wife of legendary music executive Clarence Avant, killed at their home in Beverly Hills, California.

Lessons learned from the pandemic about shifting people's behavior will be applied to policies to counter climate change and disinformation in the future, leading scientists said Thursday.

The parents of a Georgia Tech student killed by a campus police officer four years ago have settled a lawsuit against the university for $1 million, their lawyer said Thursday.

The U.S. District Court settlement modifies a previous consent decree that required BP Products North America Inc. to limit releases from the sprawling facility on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan.

The United States reported its first known case of community transmission of Omicron on Thursday hours before President Joe Biden was due to lay out his strategy to fight the coronavirus in the winter as the highly contagious variant spread across the glo...

The earliest sample in which the variant was detected was collected on November 8 in Gauteng, South Africa's most populous province, where Johannesburg and Pretoria are located.

Canada has officially narrowed its decadelong hunt for a new fighter jet to two choices as the federal government confirmed U.S. aerospace giant Boeings Super Hornet is out of the running to replace the militarys aging CF18s.

The heavily mutated Omicron variant of the coronavirus is rapidly becoming dominant in South Africa, less than four weeks after being detected there, authorities said on Wednesday, as other countries tightened their borders against the new threat.

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 41 on Wednesday to reject clemency for a man convicted and sentenced to die for his role in a quadruple slaying in Oklahoma City in 2005.

A scientist a lab in South Africa was sequencing genes on eight coronavirus samples, when she realised there were a large number of mutations.

It's the moment conservatives have been waiting for.