Category Archives: World

WILMINGTON, Del. - President-elect Joe Biden called Wednesday for the restoration of "just simple decency" as a mob incited by his predecessor stormed the U.S. Capitol and delayed Congress from certif...

Wall Street is piling into stocks of smaller companies, banks and other businesses that would be winners if Democrats can pump even more financial stimulus into the economy, as expectations rise that ...

JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi is updating its laws to include a new state flag with a magnolia and the phrase "In God We Trust," six months after legislators ditched the last state flag in the U.S. tha...

WASHINGTON - Defying President Donald Trump, Vice-President Mike Pence said Wednesday that he does not have the power to discard electoral votes that will make Democrat Joe Biden the next president on...

ATLANTA - Democrat Raphael Warnock won one of Georgia's two Senate runoffs Wednesday, becoming the first Black senator in his state's history and putting the Senate majority within the party's reach. ...

PHOENIX - A project that maps the bodies of border-crossers recovered from Arizona's inhospitable deserts, valleys and mountains said it documented 227 deaths in 2020, the highest in a decade after th...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden has selected Merrick Garland, a federal appeals court judge who in 2016 was snubbed by Republicans for a seat on the Supreme Court, as his attorney general, two ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Louisville has hired Atlanta's former chief to lead its police department after months of unrest over the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, and fired two more officers involved in th...

New York's governor is threatening to fine hospitals that don't use their allotment of COVID-19 vaccine fast enough. His South Carolina counterpart says health care workers have until Jan. 15 to get a...

SOFIA, Bulgaria - Thousands of Orthodox Christian worshippers in Bulgaria on Wednesday ignored warnings issued by health authorities to abstain from mass gatherings due to the coronavirus pandemic and...