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An aerial view of the Totten mine in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Nearly 40 miners were trapped underground for more than a day after its elevator system broke, and evacuated by climbing up a series of ladders.

Workers Escape From A Canadian Mine After A 10-Hour Vertical Climb

Most of the 39 trapped miners have reached the surface after climbing more than half a mile on a series of ladders. The Totten mine elevator system was damaged on Sunday.

United Airlines pilot Steve Lindland receives a COVID-19 vaccine at O'Hare International Airport.

United Airlines Says Almost All Its Workers Are Vaccinated; Some Others May Be Fired

The airline says 99% of its U.S. workforce has either gotten the shots or applied for religious or medical exemptions, while fewer than 600 employees will be fired for refusing to comply.

Novak Djokovic of Serbia reacts during the bronze medal match that he lost to Spain's Pablo Carreño Busta at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday.

Novak Djokovic, The World's No. 1 Tennis Player, Fails To Medal At The Olympics

Serbia's Djokovic loses to Spain's Pablo Carreño Busta, ending his chances of winning a bronze in Tokyo. "I gave it all, whatever I had left in the tank, which was not so much," Djokovic says.

AVID BIANCULLI reviews "Dead Man''s Walk" the TV adaptation of Larry McMurtry''s novel which w...

AVID BIANCULLI reviews "Dead Man''s Walk" the TV adaptation of Larry McMurtry''s novel which will be shown on ABC on Sunday night. INT. 1: LARRY MC MURTRY is considered one of Texas'' most prominent fiction writers even though he has not lived in that state for nearly two decades. Over his career, he has written 19 novels...including the 1986 Pulitzer Prize winning book "Lonesome Dove". His newest "Dead Man''s Walk" (Simon & Schuster 1995) takes readers to the early days of his "Lonesome Dove" heroes Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call. "Dead Man''s Walk" premieres this Sunday on ABC. (REBROADCAST from 11/22/95)INT. 2: Biographer LAURENCE BERGREEN. Saturday May 11 is the 108th anniversary of Irving Berlin''s birthday. Bergreen''s biography of Berlin, entitled "As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin" , was first published in 1990 and re-issued in paperback (Da Capo Press) in 1996. (REBROADCAST from 6/26/90)REV. : LISA SCHWARTZBAUM reviews "Twoster"

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., joins fellow anti-abortion activists in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as the justices hear hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, a case about a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks, on Dec. 1, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

Facebook suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene's account over COVID misinformation

The 24-hour Facebook suspension came a day after Twitter permanently suspended the Republican's personal account on that platform.

The Justice Department building on a foggy morning in 2019 in Washington, D.C.

The Justice Department will create domestic terrorism unit to counter rising threats

The announcement was made Tuesday by Matthew Olsen, the head of the department's National Security Division, and comes as the nation faces a constellation of extremist threats on the home front.

Pfizer will submit new data to the FDA this week about trials of its vaccine for kids younger than 5 years old. Here, a girl holds her sister's hand as a nurse prepares to administer the COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in Los Angeles. Kids 5 and older have been eligible for the vaccine since last November.

If Pfizer's data pans out, when will little kids get the COVID-19 vaccine?

Pfizer plans to submit new data to the Food and Drug Administration this week, bringing families with young children one step closer to a long-awaited vaccine.

U.S. Capitol Police ordered the evacuation of the Capitol complex after an unidentified single-engine plane was spotted in a restricted airspace. The plane was part of a planned military flyover of nearby Nationals Park, though the Capitol Police had not been given advance notice of the flight.

U.S. Capitol Police say an 'extremely unusual' oversight triggered Capitol evacuation

The evacuation was prompted after a plane tied to a planned flyover of nearby Nationals Park entered restricted airspace. The Capitol Police had not been given advance notice of the approved flight.

Commercial trucks wait to cross the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge in Pharr, Texas, last week, before Gov. Greg Abbott lifted his order requiring additional inspections of trucks arriving from Mexico.

A key Texas bridge lost $1 billion per week during governor's slowdown

Gov. Greg Abbott's rule imposing safety inspections at the border did "nothing to stop the flow of illegal immigration or illegal drugs," Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller told NPR.

Kashmir, near the epicenter of a devastating earthquake, is home to more than 10 million people, as many as a third of whom have been left homeless.

Earthquake in Kashmir, Land of Upheaval

Kashmir, near the epicenter of a devastating earthquake, is a land of both political and geologic unrest.

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