Century 21 Stores, an iconic New York off-price department store chain, filed for bankruptcy with plans to shut down, becoming the latest victim of the retail industry carnage that’s accelerated during the pandemic.
Britain’s government is banning gatherings of more than six people in England, as officials try to keep a lid on daily new coronavirus infections after a sharp spike across the UK that has been largely blamed on party-going young adults disregarding social distancing rules.
A magnitude-3.1 earthquake was reported at approximately 2:00am Wednesday morning, shaking the state in the rare event.
President Donald Trump was nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize on Wednesday, following his historic Israel-UAE peace efforts.
AstraZeneca has paused a late-stage trial of one of the leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates after a suspected serious adverse reaction in a study participant.
The Rochester Police Department’s “entire command staff” announced their retirement on Tuesday, the mayor there said, amid raging protests over the death of Daniel Prude, the black man who was killed while being subdued by city cops while he suffered an apparent breakdown.
Wildfires have burned a record 2 million acres in California this year, and the danger for more destruction is so high the U.S. Forest Service announced Monday it was closing all eight national forests in the southern half of the state.
Two men from the far-right Boogaloo movement allegedly tried to supply weapons to undercover agents — who they believed were Hamas terrorists — to raise money for their own anti-government cause in the states.
Serbia and Kosovo have agreed to normalize economic ties, US President Donald Trump said on Friday, hailing what he called a “major breakthrough” more than a decade after Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008.
The U.S. Air Force has taken initial steps to begin prototyping a supersonic aircraft that could someday carry the president around the world in half the time.
Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has now carried out two large-scale experiments in public health. The results are in, and counterintuitive though it may be, statistical analysis shows that locking down the economy didn’t contain the disease’s spread, and reopening it didn’t unleash a second wave of infections.
President Trump is ordering the federal government to begin the process of defunding New York City and three other cities where officials allowed “lawless” protests and cut police budgets amid rising violent crime.
The Trump administration has urged US states to get ready to distribute a potential COVID-19 vaccine by November 1st.
Federal authorities found $27 million in undeclared cash aboard a ship bound for the U.S. Virgin Islands — the largest seizure ever in the region — after a sniffer dog found the cash, federal officials announced.
President Donald Trump has announced a new eviction moratorium that will stop evictions through the end of the year. The moratorium, effective immediately, applies to all rentals, not just properties with federally backed mortgages as was the case in previous moratoriums.
Coronavirus antibodies could last for at least four months and fade more slowly than previously reported, according to a new study. The findings come from a large-scale survey published Tuesday involving more than 30,500 people in Iceland.
United Airlines on Sunday said that it will permanently scrap fees to change domestic flights, a big bet that more flexible policies will win over much-needed customers as the pain from the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on air travel continue to mount.
