Category Archives: World

Judge: NY lawsuit seeking NRA's dissolution can go forward
NEW YORK - A New York judge on Thursday denied the National Rifle Association's bid to throw out a state lawsuit that seeks to put the powerful gun advocacy group out of business. Judge Joel Cohen's r...
Jan 21, 2021

US official: Biden proposing 5-year extension of nuke treaty
WASHINGTON - The Biden administration is proposing to Russia a five-year extension of the New START treaty limiting the number of U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear weapons, a U.S. official said Thurs...
Jan 21, 2021

Amazon offers assist with US COVID-19 vaccine distribution
SEATTLE - Amazon is offering its colossal operations network and advanced technologies to assist President Joe Biden in his vow to get 100 million COVID-19 vaccinations to Americans in his first 100 d...
Jan 21, 2021

European Central Bank stimulus on track as economy struggles
FRANKFURT - With more than a trillion euros in stimulus still in the pipeline to the economy, the European Central Bank left its key bond-purchase program unchanged Thursday as the 19-country eurozone...
Jan 21, 2021

University president in Maryland offers inaugural poet a job
BALTIMORE - The president of a historically Black university in Maryland was so captivated by inaugural poet Amanda Gorman's poem during President Joe Biden's inauguration that he offered her a job --...
Jan 21, 2021

Virus scuttles Glastonbury Festival for second straight year
LONDON - Britain's Glastonbury music festival has fallen victim to the coronavirus pandemic for the second year in a row. Organizers Michael Eavis and Emily Eavis said Thursday that "In spite of our e...
Jan 21, 2021

US home construction jumps 5.8% in December to 1.67 million
WASHINGTON - U.S. home construction jumped 5.8% in December to 1.67 million units, ending a strong year for home building. The better-than-expected gain followed an increase of 9.8% in November, the C...
Jan 21, 2021

Twin suicide bombings rock central Baghdad, at least 28 dead
BAGHDAD - Twin suicide bombings ripped through a busy market in the Iraqi capital Thursday, killing at least 28 people and wounding 73 others, officials said. The rare suicide bombing attack hit the B...
Jan 21, 2021

US to join global coronavirus vaccine program
GENEVA - Dr. Anthony Fauci says U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday will order the United States to support projects to deploy COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics to people in need around...
Jan 21, 2021

Military helicopter crash kills 3 in training exercise in NY
MENDON, N.Y. - Three National Guard members on a training flight were killed Wednesday when their helicopter crashed in a farmer's field in western New York. The craft, a UH-60 Black Hawk medical evac...
Jan 21, 2021