Facebook has blocked users in Australia from sharing news stories, escalating a fight with the country’s government over whether tech companies should have to pay news organizations for content.

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Life expectancy in the United States dropped by one year during the first half of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic caused its first wave of deaths.

Outdoor hockey games have become the the marquee event of the NHL season ever since the it staged the first Winter Classic in Buffalo in 2008.

More than 10 milli0n fake 3M brand N95 masks have been seized by federal agents in recent week.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa became one of the first people to receive a COVID-19 vaccination in the country that has by far the highest confirmed virus caseload in Africa.

A spot on the Atlantic City Boardwalk where movie stars, athletes and rock stars used to party — and a future president honed his instincts for bravado and hype — was reduced to a dusty pile of rubble on Wednesday.

Amid signs that more infectious coronavirus variants are spreading unchecked across Europe, governments and EU leaders are scrambling to speed up vaccine efforts.

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