AP

Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said the government’s aim is to ‘fight the black market’ and better protect young people

The fire started Thursday evening and quickly engulfed the buildings. Neighbors described seeing the rapid spread of the blaze, residents stuck on balconies and hearing children screaming

Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers echoed arguments that were roundly rejected by a federal appeals court this month in his 2020 election interference case in Washington

The United States will impose the largest single tranche of penalties since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The European Union’s sanctions will target companies and Russian officials and businessmen

EU members and institutions are trying to push long-awaited asylum and migration reforms through the bloc’s parliament before the Europe-wide elections in June

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said that the video is anti-abortion misinformation ‘designed to manipulate the emotions of viewers’

The judge said Brian Mock, 44, clearly came to Washington, D.C., expecting violence on Jan. 6, ‘so it’s hard to think you came simply as a bystander’

The state Senate passes a bill that targets any social media site that tracks user activity, allows children to upload material and interact with others, and uses addictive features

Doctors and patients have been grappling with shock and fear as they try to determine what they can and can’t do after the ruling by the all-Republican Alabama Supreme Court

Sales of new homes rose nationally in 2023 for the first time in two years, climbing 4.2% from a year earlier. Homebuilders mitigated the impact of higher interest rates by lowering prices and offering incentives

The 59-year-old’s diagnoses of primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia ‘have already presented significant hurdles in Wendy’s life,’ her caretakers say

The judge said the Texas school district does not violate a new state law that prohibits race-based hair discrimination. Darryl George, 18, has not been in his regular classes since Aug. 31

AT&T’s outages, which began at approximately 3:30 a.m. ET, peaked at around 73,000 reported incidents. Some iPhone users have seen SOS messages displayed in the status bar on their cellphones

Speaking in a video statement from the Arctic city of Salekhard, Lyudmila Navalnaya said investigators have allowed her to see her son’s body in the city morgue

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s 30-minute flight in a supersonic strategic bomber seemed intended to send a reminder of Russia’s nuclear might amid soaring tensions with the West over the fighting in Ukraine

With Trump promising to appeal, it’s unlikely he’ll have to pay the penalty — or face the prospect of having some of his assets seized — for a while

President Joe Biden was speaking to donors at a private San Francisco home. The Kremlin said Biden ‘behaves in the Hollywood cowboy style to serve internal political interests’

Two bears, a male and a female, are expected to arrive as early as the end of summer, about five years after the zoo sent its last pandas back to China

Russia is returning to a ‘particularly aggressive’ posture reminiscent of the former Soviet Union’s behavior during the Cold War, France’s defense minister said

A trial in Texas this week is set to determine whether high school administrators can continue punishing a Black teenager for refusing to cut his hair

The treatment is approved for conditions such as Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy, and many doctors and patients hope it will become more widely available for depression

Three men are accused of scheming to thwart The Eagles band co-founder Don Henley’s efforts to reclaim the allegedly ill-gotten documents

The ruling by the all-Republican Alabama Supreme Court prompted a wave of concern about the future of IVF treatments in the state and the potential consequences of extreme anti-abortion laws in Republican-controlled states

In recent years Oklahoma’s Republican-led Legislature has passed several new laws targeting transgender and nonbinary people

Criticism over the lack of evidence directly related to the president has grown even among those in the Republican Party who have thrown cold water on allegations that Biden was directly involved in his family members’ business

The accident took place in the Angostura municipality on Tuesday, when a wall collapsed at a mine known as Bulla Loca, which can only be reached by an hours-long boat ride

President Joe Biden announced that his administration is automatically canceling federal student loans for nearly 153,000 borrowers. The first round of forgiveness will clear $1.2 billion in loans