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4th night of protests in Wisconsin; looting, curfew in Minneapolis

The mother of shooting victim Jacob Blake wants an end to violent protests. Huber and his girlfriend were in Kenosha late Tuesday night amid widespread pr...

Jerry Falwell Jr. Says He'll Get $10.5M for Leaving Liberty University

Falwell, who for over a decade served as president of the university founded by his father, did not respond to a request for comment. But later Monday, Falwel...

Korean leader calls for readiness against virus, typhoon

Kim wanted authorities to perform certain tasks in order to prevent casualties from the typhoon and hinder damage to the nation's crops. Mr Kim also called fo...

Canada-China COVID-19 vaccine trials abandoned: NRC

However, decisions in China on whether to send the vaccine to Canada were "caught in the bureaucracy", and some divisions of the Chinese government were not cle...

Hurricane Laura devastates Lake Charles, Louisiana as it barrels inland

With experts describing Hurricane Laura's storm surge as unsurvivable and winds exceeding 150 miles per hour, Jerry McLamore knew this wasn't just another hu...

Ousted Mali president Keita freed, ahead of regional summit

Keita's release is one of the demands of Mali's worldwide partners, including France and West Africa's regional bloc the Economic Community of West African St...

Japan's Abe to meet media as hospital visits fuel health concerns

The Japanese media outlet, Asahi Shimbun, is also reporting that Abe has told people close to him that he has chose to resign from his position of Prime Ministe...

Health officials provide COVID-19 update at 3 p.m.

The McPherson County Health Department today reported four new confirmed cases of COVID-19 from Wednesday and today. McHenry County residents have been tested...

US Coast Guard shoots at a shark as it approaches swimmers

All the crew members in the water swam to get out of the ocean . "After completing our operations for the day, there were no vessels around for miles, the we...

Giancarlo Granda accuses Jerry Falwell of sending sexual photos of Students

Her comments come amid her husband's resignation as the head of Liberty University after a provocative photo and revelations of his wife's affair roiled the e...

Bette Midler apologizes after mocking Melania Trump's accent in scathing tweets

Conservative actor James Woods also took issue with Midler's meddling and with the Democratic party, which she supports . The first lady was the only one of th...

US FDA issues emergency use authorisation for plasma to treat COVID-19

Donald Trump has announced American authorities have secured emergency approval of blood plasma from recovered coronavirus patients as a treatment against ...

COVID-19 crisis: Moderna's vaccine offers hope to people at high-risk

Warp Speed aims to expedite development of a vaccine and therapies to treat the novel coronavirus , and the emphasis on speed has provoked public anxiety about...

BC health officials report 62 new coronavirus cases

Officials say they are still in the process of performing contact tracing on the new cases , to determine if they had contact with known COVID-19 positive case...

Belarus' Nobel Prize-winning author questioned amid protests

Mr Lukashenko's disputed 9 August re-election triggered huge protests. Amid continuing controversy over Belarus' Aug. 9 presidential elections, its neighbor R...

So far, fourth night of protests in Kenosha remain calm

Blake's family and protesters have demanded the officers involved in the shooting be immediately fired and prosecuted. Rittenhouse, 17, was arrested on a warr...

Boris Johnson demands investigation into suspected poisoning of Alexei Navalny

Navalny fell suddenly ill an hour into the flight, forcing an emergency landing and his hospitalization in a coma in Omsk. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rei...

Federal government seeks power to scrap state deals with foreign nations

The legislation will also be retrospective, and Morrison said Australia is aware of 130 agreements that government entities have struck with 30 different countr...

Trump wants opponent, Biden, to take ‘drug test’ before first presidential debate

The Trump campaign hopes to carry Minnesota in November. And others surfaced tweets Johnson had posted in May supporting "household voting", meaning only ...

US, China reaffirm commitment to Phase 1 trade deal in phone call

Trump", she continued. However, partly due to the impacts of the pandemic, Chinese purchases of US goods have lagged. With Trump's Republicans holding their...

British PM Johnson to consider masks at schools

When the outbreak at Kingspark School in Dundee increased from six on Friday to at least 19 on Monday, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon made a decision...

Bali holidays scrapped for Britons as island bans worldwide visitors until 2021

The authorities of this Indonesian island wanted to reopen the territory to foreigners at the end of September. The local government will focus on increasing ...

US Lawmaker Opens Probe Into Possible Pompeo Law Violation With RNC Remarks

In a letter to Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun on Tuesday, Castro noted, "It is highly unusual, and likely unprecedented, for a sitting Secretary of ...

Christchurch gunman given life term without parole

His terrorist massacre was undertaken with pitiless cruelty - "you showed no mercy". Judge Cameron Mander acknowledged Aziz's courage in preventing more dea...

California wildfires burn 1.25 million acres, weather conditions improve

Television images showed piles of rubble and gray ash where homes had stood after the LNU Lightning Complex fire raged across hillsides around Lake Berryessa,...

There's No Evidence Supporting Trump's Mail Ballot Warnings, FBI Says

Intelligence officials previously have said Russia, China and Iran were employing disinformation campaigns and other means to interfere in USA politics before t...

Laura Becomes "catastrophic" Category 4 Storm

In Galveston and other areas, residents were ordered to evacuate. "We worry, of course, about people evacuating into group settings, trying to keep them safe ...

Melania Trump recalls her immigrant story to appeal for racial harmony

Midler isn't the only one who came under fire for her comments, as Kathy Griffin, who previously landed in hot water for a photo where she was holding a sever...

New Saline County COVID-19 Cases

In total, there have been 145 cases reported in residents younger than 20, 297 in their 20s, 178 in their 30s, 148 in their 40s, 141 in their 50s, 85 in their 6...

Iran relents on IAEA inspections at two sites, ending standoff

China, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Russian Federation - who are all signatories to the deal - have said that they do not recognize the U.S. "In the ...

U.S. Troops Injured in ‘Interaction’ with Russian Forces in Syria

Several American Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles, included MaxxPro and M-ATV, carrying American soldiers have tried to stop Russian military veh...

Durham board releases plan for staggered start to school year

Instead, the Upper Canada District School Board is discussing delaying the start of the school year by a week and putting in place a staggered start to the year...

Removal Of Hogan From EU Role Would Negatively Impact Ireland

European Union trade commissioner Phil Hogan, a key figure in Brexit talks, resigned on Wednesday, after making a recent trip across Ireland in an apparent brea...

Hezbollah terror cell fires on IDF troops from Lebanon

The statement said the strikes on Green Without Borders' centre in the Aitaroun nature reserve caused a fire. A breach was reportedly discovered in a fence ...

Will Greece and Turkey fight over energy?

Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday with German counterpart Heiko Maas in Ankara, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said any dialogue must not inc...