This year the Academy of Country Music Awards is replacing gambling, after-parties and a Las Vegas-style attitude with COVID-19 tests, temperature checks and face masks.
This year the Academy of Country Music Awards is replacing gambling, after-parties and a Las Vegas-style attitude with COVID-19 tests, temperature checks and face masks.
The Trump administration health official embroiled in a furor over political meddling with the coronavirus response is taking a leave of absence, the government announced Wednesday.
The Federal Reserve adjusted its inflation target to seek price increases above 2 per cent annually, a move that will likely keep interest rates low for years to come.
As schools reopen across much of the country, some are voicing concern about the rising number of COVID-19 cases among students and worry that not enough is being done to protect both children and teachers.
The European Union's chief executive, set to unveil contentious new asylum policies for the bloc next week, described immigration on Wednesday as a normal fact of life and said the continent should learn to manage it.
Celebrities including Kerry Washington, Jennifer Lawrence and Sacha Baron Cohen and others are to freezing their Facebook and Instagram accounts on Wednesday, in a campaign urging the world's biggest social media company to curb the spread of hate and propaganda.
The U.S. government outlined a sweeping plan Wednesday to make vaccines for COVID-19 available for free to all Americans, even as polls show a strong undercurrent of skepticism rippling across the land.
Four Afghan migrants have been charged with arson for alleged involvement in fires that destroyed most of a large refugee camp on the eastern island of Lesbos, Greek authorities said.
A House of Representatives committee issued a scathing report Wednesday questioning whether Boeing and government regulators have recognized the problems that caused two deadly 737 Max jet crashes, and whether either will be willing to make significant changes to fix them.
Barbados wants to remove Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and become a republic, the Caribbean island nation's government has said, reviving a plan mooted several times in the past.
Hurricane Sally made landfall Wednesday near Gulf Shores, Ala., as a Category 2 storm, pushing a surge of ocean water onto the coast and dumping torrential rain that forecasters said would cause dangerous flooding from the Florida Panhandle to Mississippi and well inland in the days ahead.
The tit-for-tat tariff war between Canada and the U.S. would have only punished Canadian consumers and hampered global trade at the worst time. But the tariffs are just a symbol of a changing view of globalization that's been brought into sharp relief amid COVID-19
TikTok users might not notice any change, but a shakeup is in the works for the company behind the wildly popular video sharing app. Caught in a political tug-of-war between Washington and Beijing, the platform is facing a Sept. 20 deadline imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump to cut ties with China.
Japan's Parliament elected Yoshihide Suga as prime minister Wednesday, replacing long-serving leader Shinzo Abe with his right-hand man.
