Bringing forward a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel-engined cars and vans from 2040 until 2030 by the UK government is an authoritarian exhaust-pipe-dream of a ‘solution'...
November 19, 2020
English sports are receiving 300 million pounds (almost $400 million) from the government — with half going to rugby — to help them survive without fans being allowed into venues...
November 19, 2020
University of Oxford scientists expect to report results from the late-stage trials of their COVID-19 vaccine by Christmas, a key researcher said Thursday as he discussed the team's latest findings....
November 19, 2020
As we edge ever closer to a Covid vaccine, the arguments for making it mandatory grow ever louder. This is wrong. I will be first in the queue to get...
November 19, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has visited an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, becoming the first top U.S. diplomat to do so. A State Department official, speaking on...
November 19, 2020
An American who had been scheduled to appear as a star witness at the trial in Paris of an Islamic State operative was hospitalized Thursday in the French capital, casting...
November 19, 2020
A Florida woman accused of setting up two fake law firms and pretending to be an attorney has been sentenced to four years and six months in prison. Roberta Guedes,...
November 19, 2020
A North Carolina agency is joining a historically black college to help communities hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic address food insecurity needs. Gov, Roy Cooper's office said in a...
November 19, 2020
Gruppo Fanti, a metal packaging manufacturer, has chosen West Virginia as the site of its first U.S. plant, bringing 40 jobs and an investment of $30 million to Weirton, officials...
November 19, 2020
The Orwell Prize-winning writer Suzanne Moore announced she had left the influential newspaper after more than 300 of her ‘comrades' publicly denounced her over a column she wrote about gender....
November 19, 2020
NBA Anthony Edwards was taken by the Minnesota Timberwolves with the No. 1 pick Wednesday night in an NBA draft delayed multiple times because of the coronavirus pandemic. Edwards became...
November 19, 2020
NBA Anthony Edwards was taken by the Minnesota Timberwolves with the No. 1 pick Wednesday night in an NBA draft delayed multiple times because of the coronavirus pandemic. Edwards became...
November 19, 2020
NBA Anthony Edwards was taken by the Minnesota Timberwolves with the No. 1 pick Wednesday night in an NBA draft delayed multiple times because of the coronavirus pandemic. Edwards became...
November 19, 2020
NBA Anthony Edwards was taken by the Minnesota Timberwolves with the No. 1 pick Wednesday night in an NBA draft delayed multiple times because of the coronavirus pandemic. Edwards became...
November 19, 2020
When COVID-19 tore through Donald Wallace's nursing home, he was one of the lucky few to avoid infection. He died a horrible death anyway. Hale and happy before the pandemic,...
November 19, 2020
When COVID-19 tore through Donald Wallace's nursing home, he was one of the lucky few to avoid infection. He died a horrible death anyway. Hale and happy before the pandemic,...
November 19, 2020
We're at the halfway point. The Tokyo Olympics were postponed eight months ago, and now are to open in eight months: July 23, 2021. Crunch time is coming. Tokyo organizers...
November 19, 2020
We're at the halfway point. The Tokyo Olympics were postponed eight months ago, and now are to open in eight months: July 23, 2021. Crunch time is coming. Tokyo organizers...
November 19, 2020
At a highway-side restaurant in the industrial outskirts of Dubai, workers methodically assemble packaged takeout meals of biryani rice, dal and brightly colored chicken curry for people in poverty and...
November 19, 2020
BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping is calling for closer international cooperation on making a vaccine for the coronavirus available. Xi spoke Thursday in an address delivered via video at...
November 19, 2020
This weekend's summit of leaders from the Group of 20 stands out more for what it is not than for what it is. Held online this year because of the...
November 19, 2020
Although the Los Angeles Lakers made a pick, the NBA champions still essentially sat out draft night. The Lakers selected Jaden McDaniels with the 28th overall pick, but the University...
November 19, 2020
Japan's number of reported coronavirus infections hit a record high in numbers released Thursday, and the prime minister urged maximum caution but stopped short of calling for restrictions on travel...
November 19, 2020
Award-winning singers Lizzo and Janelle Monae, Apple CEO Tim Cook and MSNBC's Rachel Maddow have made Out magazine's 2020 Out100 list. Pride Media announced Thursday that its annual list honoring...
November 19, 2020
Most Asian stock markets followed Wall Street lower on Thursday as anxiety about the economic fallout from rising coronavirus infections in the United States and Europe clashed with optimism about...
November 19, 2020
As business restrictions were gradually lifted from the coronavirus shutdown, Florida's tourism industry saw a nearly 32 percent drop in visitors during the third quarter compared to the same period...
November 19, 2020
The leader of the small Pacific nation of Samoa appealed for calm Thursday after the country reported it's first positive test for the coronavirus, although a second test on the...
November 19, 2020
The World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers issued layoffs in the organization Wednesday as a result of revenue losses sustained during the coronavirus pandemic. “Since March, we have worked hard...
November 19, 2020
The Oklahoma City Thunder bolstered their frontcourt during the NBA draft on Wednesday night, acquiring Serbian forward Aleksej Pokusevski in a trade with Minnesota. The Timberwolves selected Pokusevski with the...
November 19, 2020
The Oklahoma City Thunder bolstered their frontcourt during the NBA draft on Wednesday night, acquiring Serbian forward Aleksej Pokusevski in a trade with Minnesota. The Timberwolves selected Pokusevski with the...
November 19, 2020
The Dallas Mavericks drafted Arizona guard Josh Green with the 18th pick in the first round Wednesday night, adding a backcourt mate for Luka Doncic as they continue to build...
November 19, 2020
The Dallas Mavericks drafted Arizona guard Josh Green with the 18th pick in the first round Wednesday night, adding a backcourt mate for Luka Doncic as they continue to build...
November 19, 2020
A Thurston County Superior Court judge has paused a civil trial involving anti-tax initiative promoter Tim Eyman after a state attorney informed the court that a family member of a...
November 19, 2020
Charles Yu's satirical, cinematic novel “Interior Chinatown” has won the National Book Award for fiction. Tamara Payne and her father the late Les Payne's Malcolm X biography, “The Dead Are...
November 19, 2020
Charles Yu's satirical, cinematic novel “Interior Chinatown” has won the National Book Award for fiction. Tamara Payne and her father the late Les Payne's Malcolm X biography, “The Dead Are...
November 19, 2020
A San Diego-based telemarketer was fined nearly $10 million on Wednesday for making tens of thousands of spoofed robocalls in 2018 in a California Assembly race, the Federal Communications Commission...
November 19, 2020
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday imposed four weeks worth of new COVID-19 restrictions as the spread spiked to an all-time high, shutting down bars, restaurants and fitness centers, while...
November 19, 2020
“Wonder Woman 1984” isn't skipping theaters or moving to 2021, but it is altering course. The last big blockbuster holdout of 2020 is still opening in U.S. theaters on Christmas...
November 19, 2020
“Wonder Woman 1984” isn't skipping theaters or moving to 2021, but it is altering course. The last big blockbuster holdout of 2020 is still opening in U.S. theaters on Christmas...
November 19, 2020
“Wonder Woman 1984” isn't skipping theaters or moving to 2021, but it is altering course. The last big blockbuster holdout of 2020 is still opening in U.S. theaters on Christmas...
