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Recent remarks by US Vice-President JD Vance about the Antichrist and "the end times" are a "very, very common belief", one of his friends says. Vance recently mused on his religious views while responding to a question on a...

WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, but layoffs are still rare and jobless claims remain at historically low levels.The Labor Department reported Thursday filings for benefits ticked up to 206,000 last week...

Over the past few years, consumers have been hit with a steady stream of price hikes on everything from groceries to streaming subscriptions.And more are coming: 55% of companies in a recent survey by the...

The 1961 Indemnity Act was passed by the apartheid government in the wake of the massacre and protected the police and government from having criminal charges or even civil claims brought against them in relation to what happened at...

Born on 25 March 1934 in Toledo, Ohio, she had a difficult childhood and did not go to school full-time until she was 12 years old.After university in the late 1950s, she went to India on a research scholarship...

A blanket of toxic haze is enveloping parts of Indonesia and spreading into Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines, as weeks-long wildfires continue to burn.Millions of people across large swathes of South East Asia have been exposed to the smog,...

Gloria Steinem once quipped: "I can't mate in captivity" - a reference to her disinterest in marriage. But she publicly enjoyed a healthy dating life with a number of rich and famous bachelors, giving critics more ammunition to use...

More than 80 people, including a baby, are feared to have died in a boat which was adrift in the Atlantic Ocean for 27 days.Spanish Maritime Rescue teams located the vessel some 65 nautical miles southwest of Gran Canaria's...

Women's liberation icon Gloria Steinem has died at 92."Yesterday, Gloria Steinem passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her," a post on an official social media channel said....

Donald Trump's portrait has made its way on to a US coin - the first time a living president has appeared on American currency in a century.On Wednesday, the US Mint launched the $1 coin with a portrait of...