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SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un opened his country's first ruling party congress in five years with an admission that past policies had failed and vowed to set new developm...
Jan 05, 2021
KENOSHA, Wis. - A Wisconsin prosecutor declined Tuesday to file charges against a white police officer who shot a Black man in the back in Kenosha, concluding he couldn't disprove the officer's conten...
Jan 05, 2021
ATLANTA - Georgia officials began counting the final votes of the nation's turbulent 2020 election season on Tuesday night as polls closed in two critical races that will determine control of the U.S....
Jan 05, 2021
DANNEMORA, N.Y. - Brooklyn rapper Bobby Shmurda will be eligible for release from prison next month, the New York State Department of Corrections said on Monday. Shmurda, whose legal name is Ackquille...
Jan 05, 2021
HONG KONG - About 50 Hong Kong pro-democracy figures were arrested by police on Wednesday under a national security law, following their involvement in an unofficial primary election last year held to...
Jan 05, 2021
NEW YORK - A Lutheran church in New York City already reeling from the COVID-19 deaths of more than 60 members of the congregation has suffered a new trauma: Severe flood damage from the rupture of a ...
Jan 05, 2021
DETROIT - Sales of new vehicles in the U.S. fell 14.6% last year, but a second-half rebound from a coronavirus-related plunge in the spring kindled optimism for a recovery later this year. Automakers ...
Jan 05, 2021
LONDON - Despite growing vaccine access, January is looking grim around the globe as the coronavirus resurges and reshapes itself from Britain to Japan to California, filling hospitals and threatening...
Jan 05, 2021
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - A Utah man has pleaded guilty after authorities said he was caught digging in a Yellowstone National Park cemetery in search of hidden treasure. Rodrick Dow Craythorn, 52, of Syracuse...
Jan 05, 2021
WASHINGTON - Top national security agencies in a rare joint statement Tuesday confirmed that Russia was likely responsible for a massive hack of U.S. government departments and corporations, rejecting...
Jan 05, 2021