The Metropolitan Transportation Authority began proceedings to resolve a long clash with restaurateur and father of Lady Gaga Joe Germanotta over…
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As Chinese President Xi Jinping passed an apartment complex last week during his tour of Wuhan, ground zero of the global coronavirus pandemic, he…
Continue Reading Since last week’s announcements that the NBA would suspend its season and the NCAA would cancel its annual men’s and women’s…
Continue Reading Fans of the “Fastest Two Minutes in Sports” are in for a long wait. Churchill Downs will be postponing the 146th Kentucky Derby until…
Continue Reading For the first time since the novel coronavirus was first identified last year, there are now more reported cases outside of mainland China than…
Continue Reading The Ultimate Fighting Championship will postpone its next three events as the coronavirus outbreak continues to cripple the sports world. The…
Continue Reading More than 200 inmates have been released from Cuyahoga County Jail in Ohio since Friday due to concerns over the coronavirus outbreak. Judges at…
Continue Reading New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday urged residents to stay home after 8 p.m., activated the National Guard, and issued an executive order limiting…
Continue Reading Around 25,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers used the bones from 60 mammoths to build a large circular structure in Russia. And no one knows why.…
Continue Reading World Wrestling Entertainment‘s biggest event of the year, WrestleMania, will be missing a major aspect of the sports-entertainment: A live…
Continue Reading NASCAR said Monday it has postponed races in its national circuits through May 3. The stock car racing body said it plans to hold a full season once…
Continue Reading The SAT is canceled — for now. The College Board, the organization behind the college placement exam, announced on Monday that it would no…
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SAN FRANCISCO, California — Officials in six San Francisco Bay Area counties issued a sweeping shelter-in-place mandate Monday affecting nearly 7…
Continue Reading As police across the US brace for continued emergency calls in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, one Oregon police department is dealing with 911…
Continue Reading The European Union will close its borders to all non-essential travel as it attempts to contain the ongoing spread of the coronavirus on the…
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WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump and his coronavirus task force on Monday issued new, stricter guidelines to stop the spread of the disease,…
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NEW YORK, NY — The U.S. stock market plunged more than 12% Monday for its worst day in more than three decades as voices from Wall Street to the…
Continue Reading Here is some background information about the trials and execution of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Facts Hussein was charged with premeditated…
Continue Reading A Springfield, Missouri, policeman was killed trying to stop a shooting spree that left three others dead, police said Monday. Two others, including…
Continue Reading The National Park Service on Monday temporarily suspended operations at the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island in response to the…
Continue Reading Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday the country is closing its borders to anyone other than Canadian citizens, permanent residents and…
Continue Reading With four deaths, Florida was already on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis, but with a significant spike in cases over the weekend, the state…
Continue Reading Here’s a look at the Central African Republic. It is a landlocked country in central Africa, bordering Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of…
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WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Supreme Court has taken the extraordinary step of postponing oral arguments for more than a dozen cases,…
Continue Reading On any other Sunday, Coaches Bar and Grill in Columbus, Ohio, would be rumbling with customers. But this Sunday, the staff of the popular sports bar…
Continue Reading As the novel coronavirus spreads through the world, Cuba is getting creative about facemasks. The communist-run island’s government has said…
Continue Reading For those of us practicing social distancing, isolation or quarantining because of the coronavirus, being stuck at home means a lot of Netflix…
Continue Reading As the spread of coronavirus affects virtually every aspect of life in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has become a staple of prime-time…
Continue Reading Pope Francis defied Italy’s lockdown on Sunday afternoon, leaving his home in the Vatican to pray for those affected by the novel coronavirus…
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Pope Francis defied Italy’s lockdown on Sunday afternoon, leaving his home in the Vatican to pray for those affected by the novel coronavirus…
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