Politics

Andrea Radrizzani is trying to redefine what “Doing a Leeds” means. The club that became a byword for financial mismanagement and boardroom turmoil has forged a new path under Radrizzani's...

The French government's clumsy attempt to ban a new book with a deliberately provocative title has only ensured massive public interest and validation for men-haters. Oh, Monsieur Ralph Zurmély, what...

A suspicious online university whose curriculum appears to be cut and pasted from a European school, two companies with nearly identical websites and two others with practically no internet presence...

In a dramatic swing in favour of diversity – and away from freedom in art – the Oscars are setting stringent requirements for a film to be eligible for the...

Voting integrity activists will try this week to convince a federal judge that Georgia should scrap its brand new touchscreen voting machines in favor of hand-marked paper ballots. The state,...

A 50-year-old truck driver was fatally struck by another tractor-trailer as it backed into a loading dock at a South Carolina equipment manufacturing facility. Eugene Early McDowell IV, of Eden,...

Rome fashion house Fendi announced Wednesday that Kim Jones is taking over from the late Karl Lagerfeld as creative director of haute couture, ready-to-wear and fur collections. Jones will take...

Disney is under fire for filming part of its live-action reboot “Mulan” in Xinjiang, the region in China where the government has been accused of human rights abuses against Uighurs...

Local authorities in China's Inner Mongolia region have denied they used force or detained an American reporter when she was questioned at a police station last week. The Los Angeles...

Officials in Alabama's capital city have approved a hazard pay bonus for first responders and some workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. Montgomery's city-county personnel board voted...

United Parcel Service Inc. said it will hire more than 100,000 seasonal workers to help handle an expected avalanche of holiday packages from online orders this year as shoppers avoid...

The 83-year-old founder of Universal Health Services, America's largest psychiatric hospital chain and a major acute-care hospital provider, too, is handing control of the King of Prussia, Pa.-based company to...

El marine estadounidense condenado por asesinar a una transexual al que ha indultado esta semana el presidente de Filipinas, Rodrigo Duterte, sera deportado del pais asiatico una vez sea puesto...

El Papa fue fotografiado con mascarilla por primera vez en el coche utilitario que le llevo hasta el patio de San Damaso, que accede al Palacio Apostolico, si bien opto...

La administracion de Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) ha presentado en el Congreso sus presupuestos generales para 2021, en los que se estima una caida del 8% del Producto Interior...

El gran incendio forestal de Creek, en California, ha provocado la mayor nube producida por el humo, o pirocumulo, vista en Estados Unidos, con una altura superior a los 45,000...

Walmart Inc. is entering the drone delivery wars, its latest move to counter Amazon.com Inc.'s dominance in e-commerce as more Americans choose to shop from home. The world's largest retailer...

United Parcel Service Inc. said it will hire more than 100,000 seasonal workers to help handle an expected avalanche of holiday packages from online orders this year as shoppers avoid...

The pro-lockdown cheerleaders in the mainstream media have been following No.10's orders and wrongly branding all lockdown sceptics as nutty conspiracy theorists – but the tide is turning. More and...

Ahmad Manasra was traveling home from a wedding when he spotted a family in distress on the side of a West Bank road. Moments later, the 22-year-old Palestinian was fatally...

While Indonesia has recorded more deaths from the coronavirus than any other Southeast Asian country, it also has seen by far the most fatalities among medical workers in the region,...

NEW DELHI — India has added another 89,706 coronavirus cases to the second-highest reported tally in the world, and the government is saying schools will reopen later this month for...

Asian shares slid further Wednesday after a sell-off of big technology stocks on Wall Street pulled U.S. benchmarks lower. Crude oil prices and Treasury yields also weakened. Australia's benchmark led...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for urgent efforts to rebuild thousands of homes and other structures destroyed by a typhoon that slammed the country's eastern region last week,...

An illegal marijuana growing operation where seven people were fatally shot in a small, rural Southern California town had the markings of organized crime, authorities said Tuesday. More than 20...

Wall Street's summer-long party fueled by investors' appetite for some of the world's best-known technology companies has come to an abrupt, if not entirely unexpected, halt. The sharp sell-off that...

Bryant “Corky” Messner won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, defeating a fellow veteran and setting up a bid to deny U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen a third term....

School districts in Washington state have distributed thousands of computers and other devices to students to assist them with remote learning during the pandemic, but many families are still facing...

Gene Budig, the self-effacing educator and baseball fan from small-town Nebraska who became the head of three major universities and the last president of the American League, died Tuesday. He...

A little more than a week after allowing indoor dining at restaurants to resume and coming out of a holiday weekend, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez's administration is preparing to push...

Cincinnati Reds president of baseball operations Dick Williams expressed confidence in manager David Bell and his coaching staff Tuesday, but he said he would be “extremely disappointed” if the team...

President Donald Trump is muddying up claims about clean air and dirty election ballots in the U.S., falsely taking credit for lower gasoline prices and misrepresenting Democratic rival Joe Biden's...

The Los Angeles Clippers have received final approval from Inglewood's city government to begin construction on their new arena next summer. The Clippers announced the approval from the city council...

A new Netflix documentary is setting out to expose technology's corrosive effects on society during a pandemic that's left people more dependent than ever on tools that keep them connected...

Floridians eligible for the additional $300 weekly benefits under the federal “lost wages” program should expect their money to arrive this week, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday. Anyone who's currently...

A prize-winning journalist at The Washington Post has been named vice president and executive editor at Crown, a prominent division of Penguin Random House where authors include Barack and Michelle...

Gov. Steve Bullock filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Tuesday, arguing changes made to the postal service could affect the ability to...

Late-stage studies of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine candidate are on temporary hold while the company investigates if a report of a patient with a serious side effect is linked to the...

Rookie kicker Rodrigo Blankenship spent last weekend putting together Lego sets as the Indianapolis Colts debated his future. First, there was a Ferrari; then, a “Star Wars” contraption. Eventually, he...

A central Florida high school is shutting its doors for two weeks after it had six confirmed cases and one suspected case of the coronavirus, and health officials said more...