WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- U.S. homelessness in 2024 increased by 18 percent compared to 2023, driven by a national affordable housing crisis, rising inflation, and a surge in migrants, according ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Oil prices advanced on Friday. The West Texas Intermediate for February delivery went up 98 cents, or 1.41 percent, to settle at 70.6 U.S. dollars a barrel on the New ...

RAMALLAH, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinian presidency on Friday condemned Israeli forces' burning down of parts of Kamal Adwan Hospital, a key medical facility in the northern Gaza Strip.

For decades, NPR and PBS have overcome similar threats. But this year, "the attention and intensity" of the calls to defund public media seem greater, said Michael Isip, the president and chief ...

SANAA, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- The U.S.-British navy coalition launched a fresh airstrike on the Houthi-held Yemeni capital of Sanaa on Friday night, targeting the 1st Armor Division in the city, ...

Far-right activists clashed online with billionaire Elon Musk and other supporters of President-elect Donald Trump over the need for a skilled-worker immigration program that has long been a lifeblood ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted 40 km E of Tomioka, Japan at 19:10:07 GMT on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.

NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- U.S. factories employ about 13 million people. Plant owners are struggling to fill positions even as other sectors of the economy, such as transportation and warehousing, ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted Near East Coast of Honshu, Japan at 19:10:06 GMT on Friday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- OpenAI, founded a decade ago as a research organization, is considering a change to the artificial intelligence (AI) company's structure that would create a more ...

The train set off from Port Sudan on Thursday evening and arrived in Atbara on Friday, marking the first railway line in Sudan to resume operation since the onset of the conflict between the Sudanese ...

Whooping cough is considered a "nationally notifiable disease" in Canada and it's monitored through the Canadian Notifiable Disease Surveillance System, which has been set up to keep track of ...