
5 things to know for December 31: Coronavirus, transition, stimulus, Brexit, Yemen
New year, new pay: Starting January 1 (tomorrow!), 20 states will raise their minimum wage. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and…
Continue ReadingNew year, new pay: Starting January 1 (tomorrow!), 20 states will raise their minimum wage. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and…
Continue ReadingMinneapolis police were involved in a fatal shooting Wednesday evening, according to Chief Medaria Arradondo, who said officers were conducting a…
Continue ReadingIn a year that has seen global perceptions of China plunge, Beijing scored a major diplomatic victory Wednesday with the finalizing of an investment…
Continue ReadingIn a year that has seen global perceptions of China plunge, Beijing scored a major diplomatic victory Wednesday with the finalizing of a trade deal…
Continue ReadingNew Year’s Eve celebrations around the world will look very different this year as cities take precautions against the spread of Covid-19. The…
Continue Reading“You can’t figure it out by thinking,” Jon Kabat-Zinn advised Anderson Cooper on embracing the present moment through mindfulness.…
Continue Reading(CNN) — President Donald Trump received information earlier this month that China sought to pay non-state actors to attack American forces in…
Continue ReadingA Michigan doctor and his silver pickup truck are playing a key role in getting the Covid-19 vaccine to remote parts of the state. Dr. Richard Bates…
Continue ReadingThe man who detonated an RV bomb in downtown Nashville early Christmas morning was a loner with no significant criminal record and as yet no signs of…
Continue ReadingA woman who said she was the girlfriend of the man who set off the Christmas Day explosion in Nashville told police last year he was making bombs in…
Continue ReadingOfficials in Navarro County, Texas, said a tornado touched down in the town of Corsicana on Wednesday morning. The Office of Emergency Management…
Continue ReadingFlorida’s county-by-county plan to vaccinate its elderly population has created a mass scramble for a limited number of doses, leading to…
Continue ReadingDawn Wells, who played the lovable castaway Mary Ann Summers on “Gilligan’s Island,” died in Los Angeles on Wednesday from Covid-19…
Continue ReadingJust after the Christmas morning bombing in downtown Nashville, a terrified woman told a 911 dispatcher she thought the roof of the building where…
Continue ReadingHere’s a look at the January 8, 2011 shootings in Tucson, Arizona. Six people were killed and 13 were wounded including Congresswoman Gabrielle…
Continue ReadingThe United States’ first known case of the new coronavirus variant was discovered in Colorado on Tuesday, according to state health officials.…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — The Census Bureau plans to announce it will miss a year-end deadline for handing in numbers used for divvying up congressional…
Continue ReadingThe United States’ first known case of the new coronavirus variant was discovered in Colorado on Tuesday, according to state health officials.…
Continue ReadingSeveral explosions hit Yemen’s Aden airport as the newly formed power-sharing government arrived from Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. The blasts…
Continue ReadingProsecutors in New York City are investigating an incident in which a jazz musician said his 14-year-old son was attacked by a woman who falsely…
Continue ReadingJoe Louis Clark, the hard-charging high school principal who inspired the movie “Lean on Me,” has died at the age of 82, his family said…
Continue ReadingLONDON, England — UK regulators have approved the use of the Oxford University/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, which is cheaper and easier to…
Continue ReadingBritish lawmakers voted to back the United Kingdom’s post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union on Wednesday, on the eve of the December 31…
Continue ReadingProsecutors in New York City are investigating an incident in which a jazz musician said his 14-year-old son was attacked by a woman who falsely…
Continue ReadingHere’s a look at Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday that falls on the third Monday in January. Facts:January 18, 2021 – Martin…
Continue ReadingProsecutors in New York City are investigating an incident in which a jazz musician said his 14-year-old son was attacked by a woman who falsely…
Continue ReadingIn biblical terms of awfulness, 2020 ticked every box: There was war. There was famine. Above all, there was pestilence. And there were scary bugs.…
Continue ReadingThe United States’ first known case of the new Covid-19 variant was discovered in Colorado Tuesday, according to state health officials. The…
Continue ReadingYou may be sending off 2020 with a shiver. Two nasty winter storms are bringing ice, snow and cold temps from Texas all the way to Michigan.…
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