Search results for

Prime Minister Micheál Martin said on Wednesday that current restrictions will remain in place until Aug. 10. The country had been set to begin the final phase of its reopening plan on July 20.

Millions of Americans tune in on Jan. 1 to celebrate the new year by watching the Rose Parade from Pasadena, Calif. But next year's parade has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Joanna Cole, the author of the bestselling Magic School Bus series, died on Sunday at age 75. The book series along with dozens of tie-ins sold more than 93 million copies in print.

Black-owned financial institutions are a shrinking part of the U.S. financial system. NPR's podcast The Indicator from Planet Money looks at what that means for America's racial disparities.

The annual defense bill is usually approved with overwhelming bipartisan majority and touted by the president. This year the debate has been dominated by issues of racial justice and police reform.

The country's largest art museum will be open to the public five days a week starting at the end of August. It had been closed since March as New York City grappled with the coronavirus pandemic.

"The blood capital that we have banked to spend today to fight for significant change came ... not from our allies but from Black men, women and children who died," said Councilman Keith Young.

Bill Stepien will now steer the president's reelection team, as Trump attempts to claw his way back in the polls amid the coronavirus pandemic, social unrest and a faltering U.S. economy.

Hospitals have been ordered stop sending COVID-19 data to the CDC. Major Twitter accounts were hacked last night. And, Mary Trump discusses her new memoir.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is no longer blocking several schools that the Federal Trade Commission penalized for deceptive advertising from enrolling GI Bill students.