The speed of the upheaval this week in the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan has surprised many observers, including a Canadian university professor who teaches in the country's capital.
Conservative justices on Friday questioned the legality of President Joe Biden's vaccine-or-testing mandate for large businesses as the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a request by Republican state officials and business groups to block the policy at a time of surging COVID-19 cases nationwide.
The Golden Globes will be a private event this year with no live-stream, organizers said, as they prepare to hold a pared-down ceremony on Sunday with no celebrity red carpet following controversy last year.
Hollywood actor Sidney Poitier has died at age 94.
Regardless of who made an error on the visa or the vaccination waiver, the reality Friday for top-seeded tennis player Novak Djokovic was spending one of his important religious holidays — Orthodox Christmas — in an Australian detention hotel working on his challenge against deportation.
With COVID-19's latest wave showing few signs of abating, concerns are deepening as more and more workers in vital sectors are sidelined by the pandemic.
