Category: World News
After early success, South Korea sleepwalks into coronavirus crisis
SEOUL, South Korea —South Korea had seemed to be winning the fight against the coronavirus: Quickly ramping up its testing, contact-tracing and quarantine efforts paid off …
Virus, other problems threaten to throw off homeless census
The swanky, billion-dollar casinos of Las Vegas are bedecked with shining towers, neon signs and eye-popping extravagance. But directly beneath the glitter, hundreds of homeless people …
GOP leaders seek restrictions after unprecedented year for voting
Changes to the way millions of Americans voted this year contributed to record turnout, but that’s no guarantee the measures making it easier to cast ballots …
The Boxing Day questions you’ve probably Googled
Boxing Day is the day after Christmas, and it has absolutely nothing to do with your empty gift boxes. Here’s what you need to know about …
‘Unprecedented’ mail volume delays Christmas gifts
Some who mailed holiday presents weeks early this year found they didn’t act early enough as Christmas arrived with their gifts stuck in transit. The U.S. …
‘A Christmas blessing’: Teenager receives unexpected heart transplant on Christmas Eve
NORWALK, Iowa —An Iowa family is calling the unexpected phone call they answered a day before Christmas Eve a “blessing,” as it led to their daughter …
Police: Neighbor tried stopping Christmas Eve domestic violence incident, shot and killed in process
MILWAUKEE —Milwaukee Police said a man was shot and killed on Christmas Eve, just after 10:00 p.m., while he was trying to prevent a domestic violence …
Hit-and-run driver strikes stroller; baby dies on Christmas
NEWARK, Ohio (AP) — A hit-and-run driver struck a woman pushing her 1-year-old grandchild in a stroller, putting the grandmother in critical condition and causing the …
Widespread outages continue in Tennessee following blast
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sweeping communications outages continued to plague large swaths of Tennessee on Saturday as federal investigators combed the site for clues into the …
French investigators to question Carlos Ghosn in Lebanon
BEIRUT (AP) — A team of French investigators will come to Beirut next month to participate in interrogating former Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn, a Lebanese justice …