Chicago high schools to reopen Monday after union approval
CHICAGO — Chicago’s public high schools were set to reopen Monday for the first time since the nation's third-largest school district went fully remote...
Japanese leader asks Pfizer for additional vaccine supply
<p>TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga asked the U.S. drug maker Pfizer Inc. for additional supplies of the COVID-19 vaccine to speed up...
Founder of Adobe and developer of PDFs dies at age 81
LOS ALTOS, Calif. — Charles “Chuck” Geschke — the co-founder of the major software company Adobe Inc. who helped develop Portable Document Format technology,...
Germany remembers nearly 80,000 dead in COVID pandemic
<p>BERLIN — Germany is paying tribute Sunday to the nearly 80,000 people it has lost to the coronavirus, even as the country struggles to...
Clammers digging through pandemic, but shellfish are fewer
<p>PORTLAND, Maine — Chad Coffin has spent the coronavirus pandemic much as he has the previous several decades: on the mudflats of Maine, digging...
Black soldier mistreatment common even before Virginia case
<p>NORFOLK, Va. — The police officers’ guns were trained on the uniformed U.S. Army lieutenant, his arms raised and palms outstretched as he sat...
Clammers digging through pandemic, but shellfish are fewer
PORTLAND, Maine — Chad Coffin has spent the coronavirus pandemic much as he has the previous several decades: on the mudflats of Maine, digging...
Black Americans experiencing collective trauma, grief
<p>Carlil Pittman knows trauma firsthand.</p>
<p>As the co-founder of the Chicago-based...
Black soldier mistreatment common even before Virginia case
NORFOLK, Va. — The police officers’ guns were trained on the uniformed U.S. Army lieutenant, his arms raised and palms outstretched as he sat...
New restrictions ire many in Canada’s most populous province
<p>TORONTO — New pandemic restrictions imposed by Canada’s most populous province immediately ran into opposition on Saturday as police departments insisted they wouldn't use...