Continuing Job Losses Put Spotlight on Economic Relief
Mr. Biden has proposed a $1.9 trillion stimulus package that would include $1,400 in direct payments to individuals, expanded unemployment benefits and money for hard-pressed...
Biden Tells OSHA to Issue New Covid-19 Guidance to Employers
President Biden directed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Thursday to release new guidance to employers on protecting workers from Covid-19.In one of 10...
Buttigieg’s Climate Promises: What Could He Actually Do?
WASHINGTON — Pete Buttigieg, President Biden’s choice to lead the Department of Transportation, vowed to make climate change a top priority during his Senate confirmation...
Two Suicide Bombings Kill at Least 32 in Baghdad Market
At least 32 people were killed and 100 wounded by the bombings at a market near Tayaran Square Thursday morning. Officials said it was the...
The town so secret it was wiped from the map
(CNN) — Some call it the ghost town, because for decades it didn't appear on any maps -- a clandestine location that at the height...
Why Biden Inherited a Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Unlikely to Grow Before April
Johnson & Johnson is also in preliminary talks with Merck, a major American pharmaceutical company, about using its production lines, one of several ideas that...
Canada’s governor general resigns after report finds workplace harassment
Anonymous staff members say they were berated by Julie Payette to the point of tears, prompting an independent investigationCanada’s governor general has resigned after an...
Bitcoin bites: Cryptocurrency closes at three-week low
Bitcoin tumbles as much as 11.3 percent on Thursday, sliding below $31,000.Bitcoin closed in on the lowest in three weeks as the cryptocurrency’s sizzling rally...
Brazil’s most vulnerable communities face COVID food crisis
Coronavirus is spreading and the death toll is mounting — but what most worries the leaders of Brazil’s isolated and vulnerable communities is how on...
For Peter Nygard, Alone and Jailed, Rags-to-Riches Story Turns Upside Down
TORONTO — For years, Peter Nygard presented himself as a rags-to-riches story: a multimillionaire who built a fashion empire from nothing, hobnobbed with Canadian prime...