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8 people were killed at Houston's Astroworld Festival after crowd rushed the stage

Authorities in Houston said the victims range in age from 14 to 27, with one unknown. A criminal homicide and narcotics investigation is now underway.

USAID Administrator Samantha Power delivered a speech on her "new vision" for the agency on Nov. 4 at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

New USAID director aims to shake up 60-year-old aid agency. Here's her 'new vision'

Like any government agency, the biggest American foreign aid group has its problems. This week, its new administrator Samantha Power outlined her solutions.

Smoke rises from a brick kiln on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, in 2015. India's pledge this week to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2070 factors into a new, more optimistic, analysis by the International Energy Agency on climate change goals.

Latest climate pledges could limit global temperature rise, a new report says

The rise in average global temperatures by the end of the century could be held to 1.8 degrees Celsius.

A long-running decline in COVID-19 cases nationally can mask some trouble spots emerging in the upper half of the country. It's hitting states in the Mountain West like Colorado, Utah and Wyoming especially hard, but even parts of the Northeast have dealt with a worrying surge in cases and hospitalizations.

COVID is still crushing parts of the U.S. as the holiday season approaches

The U.S. is entering an uneasy stretch of the pandemic. Despite progress, the delta surge is dragging on in certain regions. Can vaccines ward off a big surge over the holidays?

A 10-year-old high-fives pharmacist Colleen Teevan after he received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for kids at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn., on Tuesday.

Birthday parties and sleepovers are back as parents welcome COVID vaccine for kids

After months of waiting, many parents of kids ages 5 to 11 expressed relief and joy when the CDC gave its recommendation for Pfizer's vaccine to be made available to that age group.

The San Diego County Administration building in downtown San Diego.

County Supervisors reaffirm support for vaccine mandate for new hires

The County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 Tuesday to keep a vaccine mandate for new employees in place.

Scientists investigate a humpback whale by boat and by drone in the surface waters near the West Antarctic Peninsula.

The biggest whales can eat the equivalent of 80,000 Big Macs in one day

Scientists have gotten the best estimates yet of exactly how much baleen whales, the largest animals on the planet, can consume in one day. Their caloric intake is mind-boggling.

A man named Nicholas gets care in an ambulance after overdosing in San Francisco, Calif.

San Francisco's new rapid response teams race to save lives as ODs dramatically rise

The city's per capita overdose death rate is among the highest in the U.S. To help address the crisis, city officials launched Street Overdose Response Teams, part of a broader public health effort.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell walks between meetings with Senators on Capitol Hill on Oct. 6, in Washington, D.C. The Fed is likely to keep its interest rates near zero at the end of its policy meeting on Wednesday, but will likely announce a plan to start removing some of the support it's providing to the economy.

Inflation is at a 30-year high. Here's how the Federal Reserve plans to deal with it

The Fed left interest rates near zero on Wednesday but announced plans to start removing some of the support it has provided to the economy as inflation hits its highest point in 30 years.

Aerial view of illegal deforestation at the Natural National Park in La Macarena, Meta Department, Colombia, in 2020.

Nations with 85% of Earth's forests pledge to reverse deforestation

More than 100 countries have pledged to reverse the loss of crucial forestland needed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

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