August 11, 2020, 5:47pm Nation & World
Hopes that talks on a huge COVID-19 relief deal would generate an agreement soon are fizzling, with both the Trump administration negotiating team and top congressional Democrats adopting hard lines… Read story
August 11, 2020, 5:46pm Nation & World
Airport security is finding guns in passenger carry-on bags at three times the rate recorded before the pandemic. Read story
August 11, 2020, 5:33pm Nation & World
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court in Washington appeared inclined Tuesday to let a judge decide on his own whether to grant the Justice Department’s request to dismiss the criminal case against former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn. Read story
August 11, 2020, 4:30pm Nation & World
JOHANNESBURG — When her regular clinic ran out of her government-funded HIV medications amid South Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown, Sibongile Zulu panicked. A local pharmacy had the drugs for $48, but she didn’t have the money after being laid off from her office job in the shutdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Read story
August 11, 2020, 2:45pm Nation & World
ATLANTA — Amid a renewed push to remove Confederate monuments following the death of George Floyd, a rural Georgia city is confronting the fate of a rare, 18th-century pavilion where slaves were once sold. Read story
August 11, 2020, 11:42am Nation & World
DENVER — The parents of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after officers in suburban Denver stopped him on the street last year and put him in a chokehold, sued police and medical officials Tuesday. Read story
August 11, 2020, 11:31am Nation & World
BEIRUT — The shattered city of Beirut on Tuesday marked a week since the catastrophic explosion that killed at least 171 people, injured thousands and plunged Lebanon into a deeper political crisis. Read story
August 11, 2020, 11:22am Nation & World
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Hundreds of thousands across the Midwest remained without power on Tuesday after a powerful storm packing 100 mph winds battered the region a day earlier, causing damage linked to the death of a woman found clutching a young boy in her storm-battered mobile home. Read story
August 11, 2020, 11:20am Latest News
It took six months for the world to reach 10 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus. It took just over six weeks for that number to double. Read story
August 11, 2020, 8:39am Nation & World
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Egypt on Tuesday reopened Gaza’s main passenger crossing point for the first time in months for thousands of Palestinians who have been stranded on both sides of the border due to the coronavirus crisis. Read story