Covid-19

SRINAGAR, India - Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir are investigating students and staff at two medical colleges under a harsh anti-terror law for celebrating India's loss to archrival Pakistan in a T20…

Since their discovery, the ancestry of hundreds of mummified bodies buried in boats in an inhospitable desert region of northwest China has puzzled and divided archaeologists. Found in the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang mostly in…

Amirite, or amirite? As the world evolves, words follow, which is why Merriam-Webster has added 455 new ones to the dictionary this month. TBH, many have emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic that has shaped so much of…

TORONTO -- Bell Island in Newfoundland and Labrador is set to lose its only doctor come December, meaning inhabitants will have to take a ferry to the mainland for medical care. Named for the large bell-shaped rock off its…

WASHINGTON -- A sample of Sitting Bull's hair has helped scientists confirm that a South Dakota man is the famed 19th century Native American leader's great-grandson using a new method to analyze family lineages with DNA…

WASHINGTON -- A lawyer for a Guantanamo Bay detainee says the U.S. Supreme Court should wait to decide a case involving his client until it's clear what the Biden administration will let the man say about his torture abroad…

HARRISBURG, PA. -- Pennsylvania prosecutors have dropped a felony theft charge against a man who underpaid for a bottle of Mountain Dew by 43 cents. Prosecutors in Perry County dropped the theft charge this month against…

WASHINGTON -- Top executives at ExxonMobil and other oil giants are set to testify at a landmark U.S. House hearing Thursday as congressional Democrats investigate what they describe as a decades-long, industry-wide campaign…

TORONTO -- The Alberta premier's office faces toxic workplace allegations, Kyle Beach comes forward, and a mysterious radio signal comes from space. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. 1. Toxic workplace: A…

TAIPEI, TAIWAN -- Taiwan's defense minister said Thursday that Taiwan must be prepared to defend itself and could not entirely depend on other countries to help if China were to launch an attack against the island, even as…