One by one, several European Union nations banned flights from the U.K. on Sunday and others were considering similar action in a bid to block a new strain of coronavirus sweeping across southern England from establishing a strong foothold on the continent.
A man who drove off the road in this week's snowstorm spent 10 hours trapped in his car after a passing plow and rapidly accumulating snow buried it, finally managing to get a 911 call through and being rescued in the nick of time by a New York state trooper.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar says shipments of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine will begin this weekend if the FDA grants emergency use authorization as expected on Friday.
Jeremy Bulloch, the English actor who played Boba Fett in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, has died. Bulloch's agents said in a statement that he died in a London hospital Thursday after years of suffering from Parkinson's disease.
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose again last week to 885,000 as a resurgence of coronavirus cases threatens the economy’s recovery from its springtime collapse.
French President Emmanuel Macron is the latest world leader to test positive for COVID-19, joining a growing list of others just as inoculation drives against the illness are beginning in a number of countries.
The presidential palace says French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for COVID-19 and has placed himself into self-isolation for seven days.
Major League Baseball has reclassified the Negro Leagues as a major league and will count the statistics and records of its 3,400 players as part of its history.
Chinese ground crews are standing by for the return of a lunar probe bringing back the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the moon in more than 40 years.
The U.S. Treasury Department has branded Vietnam and Switzerland as currency manipulators while putting China and nine other countries on a watch list.
The uptick in activity could be a sign that an agreement is near, though COVID-19 relief talks have been notoriously difficult. Pelosi hasn't met with Sen. Mitch McConnell in months.
The pandemic didn’t allow Debra Ferrell to reunite with her whole family to celebrate her birthday. So she went on social media and asked people for suggestions on 53 acts of kindness that she could perform for others during her birth month.
