The NBA on Sunday postponed a total of five games involving nine teams in response to rising coronavirus numbers, raising the number of contests that have been pushed back this season to seven. Called off were three Sunday games: Cleveland at Atlanta, Denver at Brooklyn and...
The COVID-19 omicron variant is “just raging around the world,” the White House's top medical adviser said Sunday as President Joe Biden prepares to issue “a stark warning of what the winter will look like” for unvaccinated Americans. Dr Anthony Fauci, the country's leading infectious disease...
The death toll following the strongest typhoon to batter the Philippines this year has risen to more than 200, with 52 other people still missing and several central towns and provinces grappling with downed communications and power outages and pleading for food and water, officials...
The Lower House of Antigua and Barbuda’s Parliament voted unanimously yesterday to approve a resolution to end the State of Emergency (SoE) and its accompanying curfew. Prime Minister Gaston Browne tabled the resolution to lift the curfew at 11:59 pm on December 23, which is four...
After rounds of intense discussion and negotiation between the NFL and the NFL Players Association, an agreement has been reached to revamp parts of the COVID-19 testing thresholds and get players back onto the field more quickly. Before that measure kicks in, the NFL has entered...