Nation and World
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Amazon cuts 9,000 more jobs, bringing 2023 total to 27,000
Mar 20, 2023 1:00 am - NEW YORK - Amazon plans to eliminate 9,000 more jobs in the next few weeks, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to staff on Monday. The job cuts would mark the second largest ...
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Millions of rotting fish to be removed from Outback river
Mar 20, 2023 1:00 am - CANBERRA, Australia - Contractors are being hired to remove millions of rotting fish from a river in the Australian Outback after an unprecedented die-off following floo...
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2 students hurt in Texas school shooting, suspect arrested
Mar 20, 2023 1:00 am - ARLINGTON, Texas - Two students were injured in a shooting outside a Dallas-area high school on Monday morning and police arrested the person suspected of opening fire, ...
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World on 'thin ice' as UN climate report gives stark warning
Mar 20, 2023 1:00 am - BERLIN - Humanity still has a chance, close to the last, to prevent the worst of climate change 's future harms, a top United Nations panel of scientists said Monday. Bu...
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Some Trump supporters ambivalent on calls for protests
Mar 20, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Former President Donald Trump's calls for protests ahead of his anticipated indictment in New York have generated mostly muted reactions from supporters, wi...
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A week on, brutal Cyclone Freddy still taxes southern Africa
Mar 20, 2023 1:00 am - Over a week after Cyclone Freddy's second and more devastating landfall in Malawi and Mozambique and nearly a month since it battered Madagascar, the effects are still b...
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Putin welcomes China's Xi to Kremlin amid Ukraine fighting
Mar 20, 2023 1:00 am - MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin warmly welcomed Chinese leader Xi Jinping to the Kremlin on Monday, sending a powerful message to Western leaders that their ef...
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Credit Suisse-UBS deal offers hope, but bank doubts persist
Mar 20, 2023 1:00 am - LONDON - Credit Suisse shares plunged Monday after Swiss authorities cut a deal with its bigger rival UBS to acquire the troubled bank at a marked-down price. But Europe...
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US aid worker and French journalist freed in West Africa
Mar 20, 2023 1:00 am - NIAMEY, Niger - An American aid worker held by Islamic extremists in West Africa for more than six years and a French journalist abducted almost two years ago were both ...
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Prosecutors rest in sedition case against Proud Boys leaders
Mar 20, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutors on Monday rested their seditious conspiracy case against former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants charged with plott...