WARREN, Michigan (AP): She could have dropped her ballot at the post office, but she wasn’t sure if she should trust the mail. She considered slipping it into the secured box outside City Hall, but what if something happened? A fire maybe. This...
Columbus, Ohio: Claiming that the very core of their democracy is on the ballot today, Democrats in the United States say the 2020 general election is much bigger than the two presidential candidates competing. “We are in the election of our...
WASHINGTON, Michigan (AP): President Donald Trump on Sunday launched one final test of whether the large crowds at his rallies will translate into votes as he races through the final 48 hours of the 2020 campaign with an onslaught of events in the...
LONDON (AP): A new national lockdown in England may have to last longer than the planned four weeks if coronavirus infection rates don’t fall quickly enough, a senior government minister said Sunday. The lockdown announced Saturday by Prime...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): South Africa’s largest opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, has elected a white leader, a move some analysts warn may cost it support from black voters. The party, which attracted just over 20 per cent of the votes and won...
LONDON (AP) — A new national lockdown in England may have to last longer than the planned four weeks if coronavirus infection rates don’t fall quickly enough, a senior government minister said Sunday. The lockdown announced...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The head of the agency handling citizenship and visa applications was surprised when he faced blowback for cutting a reference to the US being a “nation of immigrants” in its mission statement. The son of a...
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A surge in coronavirus cases across the country, including in key presidential battleground states, is creating mounting health and logistical concerns for voters, poll workers, and political parties ahead of Election...
MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters expect newly formed Tropical Storm Eta to become a hurricane by Monday before hitting Nicaragua with drenching rains. The system ties the record for the most named storms in an Atlantic hurricane season. Eta had...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A super typhoon blew into the eastern Philippines with disastrous force Sunday, killing at least 10 people and triggering volcanic mudflows that engulfed about 150 houses before weakening as it blew away from the...
HOMESTEAD, Florida (AP) — Postal and law enforcement officials are investigating after four dozen mail-in ballots were found undelivered at a post office in Florida. US Postal Service Office investigators said Saturday they found...
MIAMI (AP) — A tropical depression has formed in the central Caribbean Sea and forecasters say it is expected to become a hurricane in the coming days as it approaches Central America. The US National Hurricane Center in Miami said Tropical...
IZMIR, Turkey (AP) — Three young children and their mother were rescued alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in western Turkey on Saturday, some 23 hours after a powerful earthquake in the Aegean Sea killed at least 39 people and...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday announced a new month-long lockdown for England after being warned that without tough action a resurgent coronavirus outbreak will overwhelm hospitals in weeks. On the day the UK...
LONDON — Britain has recorded more than 1 million cases of the coronavirus since the start of the outbreak. The British Department of Health on Saturday announced 21,915 new cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 1.01 million cases...
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal health officials on Friday issued new rules that will enable large cruise ships to start sailing again in US waters, though not immediately. Among the requirements spelled out by the Centers for Disease Control...
WASHINGTON (AP): Retailers including Nordstrom, Tiffany and Saks Fifth Avenue say they’re planning to board up windows or add extra security personnel in some locations ahead of the presidential election. Retailers are trying to protect themselves...
TORONTO (AP): Donald Trump called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “weak” and “dishonest” and attacked Canada’s vital trade. He threatened tariffs on cars and imposed them on steel. The unprecedented tone of attacks on America’s closest ally the last...
SAN SALVADOR, (AP): At least six people were killed and 35 were missing after a landslide during torrential rains in El Salvador, civil defence officials said Friday. The slide occurred Thursday night when earth from the upper part of the San...
LAGOS (AP): Nigeria’s president is expressing sadness over a “gruesome vehicle accident” in which 21 people, most of them young schoolchildren, were killed. The accident occurred Wednesday in Awgu, Enugu state, when a truck lost control and hit a...
GEORGE TOWN: The Government of this British overseas territory has made amendments to the Public Health Law that will see residents being fined CI$10,000 and up to two years in prison if they breach home-isolation regulations implemented to fight...
When Jamaican Dorrett Aarons entered the polling station in Mount Vernon on Tuesday to cast her vote in early voting in New York, little did she know that it would have been an eight-hour wait. “I got to the polling station around 12:26 p.m. and...
NEW YORK (AP): A president who downplayed the coronavirus threat, scorned masks and undercut scientists at every turn. Governors who resisted or rolled back containment measures amid public backlash. State lawmakers who used federal COVID-19 aid to...
TAMPA, Florida (AP): President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden are encouraging voters to turn out in person on election day next Tuesday, both campaigning in Florida, a state all but essential to the Republican’s pathway to another term...
DUBAI (AP): Iran has begun construction at its Natanz nuclear facility, satellite images released Wednesday show, just as the UN nuclear agency acknowledged Tehran is building an underground advanced centrifuge assembly plant after its last one...
