December 30, 2020
Stocks are closing modestly higher on Wall Street, keeping major indexes at or near record highs. The S&P 500 added 0.1% Wednesday, keeping it just […]
December 30, 2020
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduran authorities said Wednesday they are investigating the murders of two activists and Indigenous leaders killed in separate incidents over the weekend. […]
December 30, 2020
This year has been like no other for the economy and the stock markets. No one could have predicted how a pandemic would disrupt the […]
December 30, 2020
Two Ojibwe bands have petitioned the Minnesota Court of Appeals to suspend state regulators’ approval of Enbridge’s new Line 3 and stop construction of the […]
December 30, 2020
Through plenty of potholes, seas of empty seats and enough piped-in crowd noise to make broadcasts sound like sitcom laugh tracks, the NFL is about […]
December 30, 2020
MOJIANG, China — Deep in the lush mountain valleys of southern China lies the entrance to a mine shaft that once harbored bats with the […]
December 30, 2020
Amidst the pandemic, the majority of restaurants went dark, at least for some period of time, this year was particularly brutal on the hospitality industry. […]
December 30, 2020
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s push for $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks was all but dead Wednesday as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed an alternative […]
December 30, 2020
BEIJING — A Chinese drugmaker said Wednesday its coronavirus vaccine was found to be 79.3% effective at preventing infection in preliminary data from the final […]
December 30, 2020
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s cabinet has created a compensation fund to pay the families of the 176 victims of a Ukrainian passenger plane […]