A racing pigeon named after the president-elect appeared to have traveled from Oregon to a backyard in Melbourne. Or did it?

President-elect Biden proposed a major spending package to combat the virus. Americans are dying in greater numbers, and the virus is not always to blame.

The 6.2-magnitude earthquake, Indonesia’s third deadly disaster in a week, struck Sulawesi island, flattening a hospital, destroying homes and setting off landslides.

Mr. Kwok, who busked in the Chinese territory for 28 years, was hardly the first Elvis Presley impersonator in Asia. But he may have been the most committed.

Organizers postponed the Olympic Games for one year last March. Nearly a year later, prospects are getting bleaker.

Guardian analysis shows Club for Growth has spent $20m supporting 42 rightwing lawmakers who voted to invalidate Biden victoryAn anti-tax group funded primarily by billionaires has emerged as one of the biggest backers of the Republican lawmakers who sought to overturn the US election results, according to an analysis by the Guardian. Related: Trump official […]

WHO moves emergency meeting forward; US government executes inmate with Covid; US officials warn of ‘full resurgence’ in major population centresSurge in Brazil’s largest state leaves health workers begging for helpTesting times: how UK government fell short, again and againStruggling London hospitals sending Covid patients to Newcastle‘No time to waste’: Biden unveils $1.9tn coronavirus stimulus […]

Disparity with white women shows need for action, doctors say, despite slight improvement in mortality rate Black women are still four times more likely than white women to die in pregnancy or childbirth in the UK, and women from Asian ethnic backgrounds face twice the risk, according to a new report.The data shows a slight […]

Legislation that would erode LGBTQ and reproductive rights expected to be introduced in states across America, experts warnDonald Trump is set to leave the White House and Republicans are about to relinquish control of the Senate, but experts are warning the US is facing a wave of rightwing ‘Christian nationalist’ legislation in 2021, as the […]

A New York City bus was left hanging from an overpass after crashing off the Cross Bronx expressway, New York Emergency Management reported on Thursday night.Seven people, who were said to have been travelling in the bus, reportedly sustained minor injuries in the crashNew York bus dangling from expressway after Bronx crash Continue reading...

The historian Rick Perlstein discusses President Gerald Ford’s motivation, whether liberals should care about the health of the Republican Party, and why the Trump siege may have been the culmination of the Barry Goldwater revolution.

In 1964, the John Birch Society was the most active far-right group in the United States—unless you count the Republican Party.

“The People’s Newspaper” follows the local journalists of the Navajo Times, as they report on a part of the country hit especially hard by the pandemic.

After stoking a mob to storm the Capitol on January 6th, the President has been banned from many of the social-media sites on which he built his political career.