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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday chose to delay New Zealand's national elections by four weeks as the country deals with a new coronavirus outbreak in its largest city...
Aug 16, 2020
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Telephone service between the United Arab Emirates and Israel began working Sunday as the two countries open diplomatic ties, part of a deal brokered by the U.S. that req...
Aug 16, 2020
CHICAGO - Former Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson, known as "Big Jim" during a long career that eventually made him the state's longest-serving chief executive, has died. He was 84. Thompson died short...
Aug 15, 2020
LOS ANGELES - California on Friday ordered rolling power outages for the first time since 2011 as a statewide heat wave strained its electrical system. The California Independent System Operator (Cali...
Aug 14, 2020
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's younger brother, Robert Trump, has been hospitalized in New York. The president is expected to visit his 72-year-old brother at a hospital in Manhattan on Friday,...
Aug 14, 2020
WASHINGTON - A former FBI lawyer will plead guilty to making a false statement in the first criminal case arising from U.S. Attorney John Durham's investigation into the probe of ties between Russia a...
Aug 14, 2020
NEW YORK - R. Kelly's manager has been arrested on charges that he threatened a shooting at a Manhattan theatre two years ago, forcing an evacuation and the cancellation of the screening of a document...
Aug 14, 2020
NEW YORK - Colombian superstar J Balvin says he is recovering after battling the coronavirus. In a pre-taped video that aired Thursday night as Balvin accepted an award at Premios Juventud 2020, the p...
Aug 14, 2020
NEW YORK - Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges has written a children's book with a candid telling of the past and positive message for the future, inspired by the Black Lives Matter protests. Delacort...
Aug 14, 2020
WASHINGTON - American industry continued to regain ground lost in the coronavirus recession last month, but production remains well below where it was before the pandemic struck. The Federal Reserve r...
Aug 14, 2020