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U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says the U.S. wants to put Ukraine in the best position to end the war, but he declined to say if battlefield victories or diplomacy were the shared end goal. (Image credit: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP

Spain will host the next Latin Grammy Awards ceremony, marking the first time the star-studded event is held outside the United States, officials said Wednesday. Like the Grammy Awards, which are considered the top US music honors, the Latin Grammys

With COVID-19 infections becoming more common, experts have recently urged doctors to prescribe the antiviral drug Paxlovid more than they have been to minimize patients’ symptoms and reduce the chance that they’ll develop severe disease. The drug is authorized for

For years, nuclear arms control treaties helped keep the world safe. But the era of treaties may be coming to an end after Vladimir Putin announced Tuesday that Russia suspended its participation in New START—the last remaining one between the

The winner of a $1.35 billion Mega Millions jackpot has come forward to collect the prize.

David Hockney’s first immersive show opened to the public in London on Wednesday offering a hypnotic, multi-sensory journey through the artist’s decades-long career, from sun-drenched California swimming pools to the Normandy countryside. “The world is a very very beautiful if

Al-Shabaab claimed that the home of a senior army officer also contained members of a militia who had been wounded in the ongoing offensive against the extremists that began last year.

Blocking the only highway that connects 120,000 people of Nagorno-Karabakh with the outside world, a fur coat-wearing woman held a dove in one hand and a megaphone in the other as she yelled that the besieged region “belongs to Azerbaijan.”

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A surge in AI-generated spam pitches has forced a prestigious publisher of science fiction short stories to close its submissions, with some joking about the inherent irony given the genre has long covered the perils of machine learning. Neil Clarke,