Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Vice President Kamala Harris marked the White House's first Maternal Day of Action on Tuesday, holding a summit aimed at improving health for recent mothers across the United States.

Hawaii has been socked by a potent storm that has unleashed pounding rainfall, high winds and even blizzard conditions to the mountain summits.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The owner of a Pennsylvania reptile sanctuary rescued a 3-foot alligator spotted by fishermen in the frigid waters of a river.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- After reaching a record-high trade deficit in September, the difference closed to $67.1 billion to its lowest point in six months, according to new data from the Commerce Department Thursday.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- A municipality in France said a climber who found $168,000 worth of precious gems on a mountain will be allowed to keep half of the find after the original owners couldn't be located.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- A major outage of Amazon Web Services disrupted companies like Disney, Sony and Netflix on Tuesday.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- A Milwaukee brewery is celebrating the holiday season with an extra-festive beer made using spruce from the city's official Christmas tree.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The attorney for former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday that Meadows will no longer cooperate with the probe.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Drivers in Michigan will receive auto insurance refunds of $400 per vehicle, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) and the Department of Insurance and Financial Services said Tuesday.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- A Canadian conservation group collected 2,190 paper snowflakes made by children across Canada to make the world's longest chain of paper snowflakes.