October 22, 2020, 8:58am Nation & World
BERLIN — Germany’s consul general to Hong Kong was brought in for talks, following reports Berlin had granted asylum to a student who faced prosecution for demonstrating against the city’s extradition law, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday. Read story
October 22, 2020, 8:57am Nation & World
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s top court has ruled that a law allowing abortion of fetuses with congenital defects is unconstitutional. Read story
October 22, 2020, 8:56am Nation & World
BANGKOK — Thailand’s government on Thursday canceled a state of emergency it had declared last week for Bangkok in a gesture offered by the embattled prime minister to cool student-led protests seeking democracy reforms. Read story
October 22, 2020, 8:56am Nation & World
ROME — Italy’s three largest cities face new curfews as regional authorities try to slow the spread of COVID-19 where it first struck hard in Europe, most of whose countries are now imposing, or mulling, new restrictions to cope with rapidly rising caseloads. Read story
October 22, 2020, 8:53am Nation & World
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials have accused Iran of being behind a flurry of threatening but fake emails sent to Democratic voters in multiple battleground states in a late-stage efforts to sway public opinion and interfere in the presidential election. Read story
October 22, 2020, 8:47am Nation & World
TBILISI, Georgia — Police in the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia were looking Thursday for a bank robber who held over 40 people hostage for hours before releasing them and escaping with $500,000 given to him by authorities. Read story
October 22, 2020, 5:59am Latest News
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, are set to square off in their final debate today, one of the last high-profile opportunities for the trailing incumbent to change the trajectory of an increasingly contentious campaign. Read story
October 21, 2020, 8:09pm Nation & World
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Carrie Underwood already had the most CMT Music Awards of any artist, but she’ll need to make more room on her shelf. The superstar picked up two more trophies for video of the year and female video of the year in a remotely shot awards show. Read story
October 21, 2020, 7:22pm Entertainment
James Randi, a magician who later challenged spoon benders, mind readers and faith healers with such voracity that he became regarded as the country’s foremost skeptic, has died, his foundation announced. He was 92. Read story
October 21, 2020, 5:48pm Nation & World
BOSTON — Iran is responsible for emails meant to intimidate American voters and sow unrest in multiple states, and Tehran and Moscow have also obtained voter registration information with the goal of interfering in the election, U.S. officials said at a rare news conference Wednesday night just two weeks before the vote. Read story