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An undersea volcano erupted near the Pacific nation of Tonga, sending tsunami waves crashing across the shore there and around the Pacific, including a surges along the U.S. West Coast.

A Guantánamo judge will consider this week whether the defense secretary illegally rescinded plea deals with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other men charged in the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

The virus pandemic comes at a vulnerable time for the Britain's overburdened public health care system.

Four new likely cases of COVID-19 are linked to a cluster in an Auckland family announced Tuesday. The country returns to tighter restrictions and is promoting an app to help with contact tracing.

At least 70% of people will need to be immune from the coronavirus before COVID-19 can recede through a process known as herd immunity. Vaccines can play a role. But reaching the goal won't be easy.

More than a thousand health professionals are calling on Spotify to crack down on COVID-19 falsehoods aired on the podcast of the company's most popular host.

The new policy gives the department permanent rules about when officers can and can't engage in an activity that can endanger themselves, those they're chasing and bystanders.

Fire managers across the Southwest are reckoning with strong winds that forecasters say could lead to explosive growth in wildfires this week.

Under a voter-approved elections process being used for the first time in Alaska elections this year, party primaries have been scrapped and ranked choice voting is being used in general elections.

The legislation extends for two years the program known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.