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The eight-time All-Star, who muscled up beside the likes of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as one of the NBA's top players of the 1970s, died Tuesday. Lanier had worked for the league as a global ambassador.

The leader of the World Health Organization says he doesn't think that a 'zero-COVID' strategy is sustainable, given the behavior of the virus.

Australian scientists confirm the mass bleaching, yet are hopeful the world's largest coral reef ecosystem can recover.

Cook is only the second of Biden's five nominees for the Fed to win Senate confirmation. His Fed choices have faced an unusual level of partisan opposition.

U.S. investigators blamed the 2019 crash on the pilot's decision to keep flying into worsening weather, and they accused regulators of lax oversight of air tours that are popular with tourists.

Emergency workers continued to hunt through the ruins for the missing. Authorities have said they suspect the cause was a leak of gas as a tank truck was servicing the building.

Kravchuk led Ukraine as its Communist Party boss in the waning years of the Soviet Union. He played a pivotal role in the demise of the USSR before holding the Ukrainian presidency from 1991 to 1994.

The murder suspect and his jailer who evaded authorities for more than a week were carrying $29,000 in cash, four handguns and an AR-15 rifle when they were captured, an Indiana sheriff said.

The decision follows a swift trial in which the celebrity chef waived his right to have a jury decide his fate.

The San Mateo County District Attorney's Office said it has closed the case and decided against pursuing charges in last month's incident based on "the circumstances surrounding the confrontation."

Enough pieces of a bronze statue of Marjorie Tallchief have been recovered to restore it. The statue was cut into pieces that have been found at recycling centers in the Tulsa, Okla., area.

The namesake son of the late Philippine dictator won by a landslide, according to unofficial results, in an astonishing reversal of the 1986 "People Power" pro-democracy revolt that ousted his father.