Cleveland's Major League Baseball team will change its name amid criticism that it is racist, the New York Times and ESPN reported on Sunday.
John le Carré, the spy-turned-novelist whose elegant and intricate narratives defined the Cold War espionage thriller and brought acclaim to a genre critics had once ignored, has died. He was 89.
Senior U.S. government officials, including some White House officials who work in close proximity to President Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence, will be offered coronavirus vaccines as soon as this week.
Groups of people tore down a Black Lives Matter banner and sign from historic Black churches in downtown Washington and set one ablaze as Saturday night clashes between pro-Donald Trump supporters and counter-demonstrators erupted into violence and arrests.
The first trucks carrying a COVID-19 vaccine for widespread use in the U.S. pulled out of a Michigan manufacturing plant on Sunday, with the shots that are critical to battling the pandemic destined to reach states a day later.
Throwing overboard Sunday's self-imposed deadline, the European Union and Britain said they will "go the extra mile" to clinch a post-Brexit trade agreement that would avert New Year's chaos and cost for cross-border commerce.
Germany is closing most stores and schools, and further limiting social contacts in an effort to drive down the rate of coronavirus infections that have remained stubbornly high in recent weeks.
