The U.S. Congress on Monday approved an $892 billion US coronavirus aid package, throwing a lifeline to the nation's pandemic-battered economy after months of inaction, while also keeping the federal government funded for another year.
Dozens of email accounts at the U.S. Treasury Department were comprised by the powerful hackers responsible for a wide-ranging espionage campaign against U.S. government agencies, the office of U.S. Senator Ron Wyden said on Monday.
Country singer K.T. Oslin, who hit it big with the 1987 hit 80's Ladies and won three Grammy awards, has died.
U.S. president-elect Joe Biden received his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Monday at a hospital in Newark, Del., and he urged Americans to get the vaccine when it is available.
Breaking with U.S. President Donald Trump, outgoing Attorney General William Barr said Monday he saw no reason to appoint a special counsel to look into the president's claims of election fraud or the tax investigation into the son of president-elect Joe Biden.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Monday released a recording of a phone call he said he made to an alleged state security operative who revealed details of how the politician was supposedly poisoned.
In the middle of last year, Tesla's losses were piling up, sales weren't enough to cover expenses and big debt payments loomed. The situation was so bad that one influential Wall Street analyst raised the possibility that Tesla wouldn't be able to pay its bills and would have to be restructured financially.
The Justice Department on Monday unsealed charges accusing a Libyan bomb expert in the 1988 explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, an attack that killed 259 people in the air and an additional 11 on the ground.
A new variant of the pandemic SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is spreading in Britain and prompting high levels of concern, especially, among the country's European neighbours, some of which have cut transport links. Here is what is known so far about the variant, and why there is cause for concern
Two members of an international people-smuggling gang were convicted of manslaughter on Monday over the deaths of 39 people who were found in the back of a container truck in southeastern England.
The Vatican on Monday declared that it is "morally acceptable" for Roman Catholics to receive COVID-19 vaccines based on research that used fetal tissue from abortions.
Problems increased Monday in the bid to put a trade deal between the European Union and the United Kingdom on the rails before a Brexit transition period ends on New Year's Day, with the EU legislature insisting it will not have time to vet and approve an agreement.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will chair an emergency response meeting on Monday to discuss international travel, in particular the flow of freight in and out of Britain.
The United Kingdom stood shut off from much of Europe on Monday after allies cut transport ties over fears of a new coronavirus strain, sowing chaos for families, truckers and supermarkets just days before the Brexit cliff edge.
In Italy, turreted church towers are part of the country's fabric, as are the bronze bells in the belfry that call the faithful to mass. But as church attendance has dropped, so has demand for the giant bronzes, so bell makers are turning to online sales to keep their craft alive.
