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Matt Chandler of the Village Church in suburban Dallas received a standing ovation after his leave, part of a period of turmoil among evangelical churches. [...]

Drag queens performed at last year's event, prompting the ministers who co-sponsored it to exclude them this year — and city officials to launch a second, separate holiday parade. [...]

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Three Chinese astronauts have landed in a northern desert after six months working to complete construction of the Tiangong station, a symbol of the country’s ambitious space program [...]

Congress stepped in to prevent supply chain havoc, but rail workers’ biggest grievance remains unaddressed. [...]

The world’s harshest Covid restrictions exemplify how Xi Jinping’s authoritarian excesses have rewritten Beijing’s longstanding social contract with its people. [...]

The trial, the first over a challenge to a state ban on gender-affirming care, concluded last week; the judge has not indicated when he will rule. [...]

The Texas Public Policy Foundation is shaping laws, running influence campaigns and taking legal action in a bid to promote fossil fuels. [...]

Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency says authorities have executed four people accused of working for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency [...]

Russia and Ukraine criticized a Western price cap of $60 a barrel on Russian oil, with Moscow saying it went too far and Kyiv saying it didn’t go far enough. [...]

FBI Director Chris Wray believes TikTok poses threats to national security as a Chinese-owned app “that doesn’t share our values” and could “manipulate content.” The popular video-sharing app, owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance, boasted more than 1 billion active global users last year, a majority of which are [...]

The luxury laundry brand recalled items sold between January 2021 and September 2022. [...]

She set sail in 1952 not to set a record or make a point about women and their abilities. Rather, her motivation was deeply personal. [...]

BEIJING — Chinese authorities on Saturday announced a further easing of COVID-19 curbs with major cities such as Shenzhen and Beijing no longer requiring negative tests to take public transport. The slight relaxation of testing requirements comes even as daily virus infections reach near-record highs, and follows weekend protests across the [...]

On Saturday evening in Qatar, the United States could not overcome three ruthless strikes from the Netherlands. The Dutch side, World Cup finalist a dozen years ago and the third place finisher at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, defeated the United States 3-1 in the Round of 16, sending [...]

Title 42, a public health emergency order used to expel asylum-seeking migrants from the U.S., is set to be repealed on Dec. 21, and analysts and border officials predict a surge in border crossings if the policy is lifted. The pandemic-era ban, which began under former President Donald Trump in 2020 [...]

Nearly one million Americans have no immediate family members to provide assistance if needed. The number is expected to grow. [...]

The gem, recovered from the Nuestra Señora de Atocha, ended up in the possession of the chicken magnate Frank Perdue. His widow, Mitzi Perdue, is auctioning it to support humanitarian efforts in Ukraine. [...]