Belgian parade to give up UNESCO listing over ‘anti-Semitic’ floats
A Belgian town famous for its carnival parade has signaled that it is willing to withdraw from a United Nations cultural listing after the event was…
Continue ReadingA Belgian town famous for its carnival parade has signaled that it is willing to withdraw from a United Nations cultural listing after the event was…
Continue ReadingA powerful typhoon killed four people in the Philippines and prompted authorities to close the country’s largest airport due to powerful winds…
Continue ReadingAn officer on Monday shot an armed 17-year-old student at a high school classroom in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin, police said. The…
Continue ReadingGoodbye, heavy snow. Hello, freezing rain, slush and ice. The powerful winter storm that trekked across the country and ruined many travel plans is…
Continue ReadingCharges against one of the suspects in the death of college student Aniah Blanchard are being upgraded from first-degree kidnapping to capital…
Continue ReadingRussia switched on an enormous gas pipeline to China worth billions of dollars Monday, affirming increasingly close economic and political ties…
Continue ReadingTeens from some of China’s wealthiest regions are outperforming their peers in the world’s richest countries in reading, math and…
Continue ReadingDictionary.com has picked its Word of the Year, the word that captures the zeitgeist, the collective spirit of humankind in 2019. It’s ……
Continue ReadingThree separate attacks targeted busy marketplaces in northwest Syria, producing a brutal death toll Monday in the war-torn area, according to local…
Continue ReadingAn emergency landing went horribly wrong Sunday night as a plane crashed in San Antonio, leaving three dead, according to fire officials. One of the…
Continue ReadingWelcome to the Wild West of possessive punctuation. After 18 years, the Apostrophe Protection Society has been disbanded by its founder and chairman,…
Continue ReadingNobody likes to hear that an old friend is “brain dead,” so perhaps it’s not surprising that France’s allies seem to be going…
Continue ReadingThousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in the Philippines as Typhoon Kammuri hit Luzon, the country’s largest and most…
Continue ReadingRohingya refugee children living in a sprawling network of camps in Bangladesh are being denied access to education in a deliberate effort by…
Continue ReadingNATO is having an unhappy birthday. Champagne corks ought to be popping as leaders of the world’s most powerful military alliance meet outside…
Continue ReadingA team of scientists from the UK and Australia teamed up to use underwater loudspeakers to try and entice fish back to dead coral reefs and…
Continue ReadingChina will ban US warships and military aircraft from making stops in Hong Kong in the wake of Washington passing legislation supporting the…
Continue ReadingORLANDO, Florida — Every surfer has wiped out. But how many can say a shark knocked them off their board? Chandler Moore, 7, of Orlando, and…
Continue ReadingFour teenagers were able to escape through the front door of a Nashville, Tennessee, juvenile detention center because of critical oversights by the…
Continue ReadingActress and environmental activist Jane Fonda says “it feels good” to be arrested at the climate change demonstrations in Washington…
Continue ReadingThe abrupt end to Eddie Johnson’s time atop the Chicago Police Department caps what has been a tumultuous few years for the force. Johnson…
Continue ReadingAbout 40 million people are under some kind of winter weather alert as heavy snowfall covers the Northeast and a treacherous storm drenches much of…
Continue ReadingNine people representing four generations of an Idaho Falls family were killed in a plane crash in South Dakota while traveling for a hunting trip,…
Continue ReadingChicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot fired retiring Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson Monday, saying Johnson lied about an October incident in which he was…
Continue ReadingThe North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is far from being brittle, but the alliance seems much less elastic than it once was. When its leaders…
Continue ReadingPlague is often depicted as shifting the course of human history, but scholars say an outbreak that has been blamed for the demise of the Roman…
Continue ReadingThe Chinese government’s carefully constructed narrative around its Xinjiang detention centers appears to have been shattered by hundreds of…
Continue ReadingThe Cleveland Browns lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the second matchup between the two teams this year. The loss was enough to send one dejected…
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO, California — U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-California) — who is accused of illegally dipping into campaign funds to pay for…
Continue ReadingIt’s an interesting time for the Christmas tree industry right now: There are fewer Christmas trees being grown than 10 to 15 years ago, yet…
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