World

Muted Mardi Gras: Closed bars, barricaded Bourbon Street

NEW ORLEANS - Music blared from the courtyard of a French Quarter restaurant on Mardi Gras morning but nobody was there to hear it until Tom Gibson and Sheila Wheeler of Philadelphia walked out of the...

Feb 16, 2021

Trump rips McConnell as GOP divide deepens post-Capitol riot

WASHINGTON - In the most caustic sign yet of deepening GOP divisions, former President Donald Trump blistered Mitch McConnell as a "political hack" on Tuesday, days after the Senate's top Republican d...

Feb 16, 2021

Japan begins COVID-19 vaccination drive amid supply worry

TOKYO - Japan's first coronavirus shots were given to health workers Wednesday, beginning the vaccination campaign considered crucial to holding the already delayed Tokyo Olympics. The government gave...

Feb 16, 2021

European Space Agency seeks diversity in new astronaut drive

PARIS - The European Space Agency is holding its first astronaut recruitment drive in 11 years and says greater diversity is one of the goals. The European equivalent of NASA is seeking to recruit mor...

Feb 16, 2021

Black franchise owner sues McDonald's, cites persistent bias

CLEVELAND - The Black owner of 14 McDonald's franchises says the company has shown more favourable treatment to white owners and denied him the opportunity to buy restaurants in more affluent communit...

Feb 16, 2021

Riot lawsuit just part of Trump's post-impeachment problems

NEW YORK - Acquitted by the Senate of inciting last month's U.S. Capitol insurrection, former President Donald Trump faces more fallout from the unrest, including a lawsuit from a congressman Tuesday....

Feb 16, 2021

Biden heads to Wisconsin to rally support for virus relief

WASHINGTON - Leaving Donald Trump and his impeachment in the rearview mirror, Joe Biden is embarking on his first official trip as president to refocus Congress on coronavirus relief and to cement pub...

Feb 16, 2021

France passes anti-radicalism bill that worries Muslims

PARIS - Lawmakers in the French parliament's lower house on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a bill that would strengthen oversight of mosques, schools and sports clubs to safeguard France from radical...

Feb 16, 2021

Some dinosaur migration was delayed by climate, study shows

Plant-eating dinosaurs probably arrived in the Northern Hemisphere millions of years after their meat-eating cousins, a delay likely caused by climate change, a new study found. A new way of calculati...

Feb 16, 2021

Tyler Perry, Clintons attend memorial for actor Cicely Tyson

NEW YORK - Tyler Perry and Bill and Hillary Clinton are among the attendees of a private memorial service for Cicely Tyson at Harlem's famed Abyssinian Baptist Church. The memorial service Tuesday cam...

Feb 16, 2021