Category Archives: World

Judge bans Proud Boys leader from Washington after arrest
WASHINGTON - A judge has banned the leader of the Proud Boys from the nation's capital after he was accused of vandalizing a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic black church and found with high-ca...
Jan 05, 2021

Grammy Awards shift to March due to pandemic conditions
NEW YORK - The 2021 Grammy Awards will no longer take place this month in Los Angeles and will broadcast in March due to a recent surge in coronavirus cases and deaths. The Recording Academy told The ...
Jan 05, 2021

Hank Aaron, civil rights leaders get vaccinated in Georgia
ATLANTA - Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron, former U.N. Ambassador and civil rights leader Andrew Young and former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan got vaccinated against COVID...
Jan 05, 2021

Trump to speak at DC rally as Congress meets on election
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump will personally address a gathering of his supporters in Washington Wednesday as he seeks to rally populist support for his last-ditch efforts to overturn his loss ...
Jan 05, 2021

Trump administration scales back wild bird protections
BILLINGS, Mont. - The Trump administration on Tuesday finalized changes that weaken the government's enforcement powers under a century-old law protecting most American wild bird species, brushing asi...
Jan 05, 2021

Tanya Roberts, Bond girl and 'Sheena' star, dead at 65
NEW YORK - Tanya Roberts, who captivated James Bond in "A View to a Kill" and appeared in the sitcom "That '70s Show," has died, several hours after she was mistakenly declared dead by her publicist a...
Jan 05, 2021

US stocks recoup some losses after sharp slide to start 2021
Stocks are broadly higher on Wall Street in afternoon trading Tuesday, regaining their footing a day after suffering their worst loss in months amid the worsening pandemic and potentially market-movin...
Jan 05, 2021

Voter voices: Georgians weigh in on crucial Senate runoffs
ATLANTA - Voters across Georgia cast their ballots Tuesday to decide which party will control the U.S. Senate. The election has dominated the airwaves in the state for weeks and both sides have launch...
Jan 05, 2021

Khashoggi doc, too explosive for streaming, debuts on-demand
NEW YORK - Even before "The Dissident" made its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, director Bryan Fogel had a sense that his explosive Jamal Khashoggi documentary was going to be a tough sell. Th...
Jan 05, 2021

WHO 'disappointed' at Chinese delays letting experts in
GENEVA - The head of the World Health Organization said Tuesday that he is "disappointed" Chinese officials haven't finalized the permissions to allow a team of experts into China to examine the origi...
Jan 05, 2021