Unemployment benefits for millions in the United States struggling to make ends meet are set to lapse at midnight Saturday unless U.S. President Donald Trump signed an end-of-year COVID-19 relief and spending bill that had been considered a done deal before his sudden objections.
Millions of people in Britain faced tough new coronavirus restrictions on Saturday, with Scotland and Northern Ireland demanding tighter measures to try to halt a new variant of the virus that is believed to spread more quickly.
Federal investigators comb the site for clues into the explosion of a recreational vehicle that rocked sleepy downtown Nashville on Christmas, damaging at least 41 buildings.
The European Union and the United Kingdom made public Saturday the vast agreement that is likely to govern future trade and co-operation between them from Jan. 1, setting the 27-nation bloc's relations with its former member country and neighbour on a new but far more distant footing.
A provincewide lockdown meant to bring down COVID-19 case counts takes effect today in Ontario.
