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Tensions rise over masks as virus grips smaller US cities
MISSION, Kan. - Arguments over mask requirements and other restrictions have turned ugly in recent days as the deadly coronavirus surge across the U.S. engulfs small and medium-size cities that once s...
Dec 09, 2020
UN chief warns `vaccine nationalism' is moving at full speed
TANZANIA, Tanzania - Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday that "vaccine nationalism" is moving "at full speed," leaving poor people around the globe watching preparations for inoculatio...
Dec 09, 2020
Hundreds sign up to speak on Minneapolis plan to cut police
MINNEAPOLIS - More than 300 Minneapolis residents signed up to speak Wednesday night on a plan to shrink the city's police department, with some pleading for City Council members to deliver the reform...
Dec 09, 2020
Oregon eviction protest fueled by history of gentrification
PORTLAND, Ore. - Protesters barricaded streets in a Portland, Oregon, neighbourhood and set booby traps for police after officers arrested about a dozen people in a clash over gentrification and the e...
Dec 09, 2020
Pompeo unloads on US universities for China ties
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday accused U.S. universities of caving to Chinese pressure to blunt or bar criticism of the Chinese Communist Party. The attack, which included id...
Dec 09, 2020
Trump's election fight puts embattled Texas AG in spotlight
AUSTIN, Texas - A lawsuit that President Donald Trump is now calling "the big one" in his effort to overturn the outcome of the presidential election is helmed by an embattled Texas ally who is likewi...
Dec 09, 2020
Retiring Rep. Joe Kennedy III says greed hinders aid to poor
WASHINGTON - Retiring Rep. Joe Kennedy III used his farewell speech from Congress on Wednesday to deride the "great lie of our times" that the government lacks the resources and will to help people in...
Dec 09, 2020
Long-term care workers to get priority vaccination in B.C. to protect elderly: doctor
VICTORIA - British Columbia's top doctor says health-care workers in long-term care facilities and intensive care units will be the first to be immunized against COVID-19 with the Pfizer vaccine start...
Dec 09, 2020
Province outlines COVID-19 vaccine distribution, doses to Island Health by early January
NANAIMO - The end of COVID-19 is on the horizon but not without a lot of hard work yet to be done, according to public health officialsHealth Canada approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on Wednesday, ...
Dec 09, 2020
Jury convicts Illinois man in Minnesota mosque bombing
MINNEAPOLIS - A jury on Wednesday convicted the leader of an Illinois anti-government militia group of several civil rights and hate crime charges in the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque. Prosecutor...
Dec 09, 2020