While many workers deemed essential in their respective states have already pandemic hazard pay or hero pay, there are thousands more are still waiting for the same financial pat-on-the-back.
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Bus crashes, catches fire in Bulgaria; at least 45 dead
The bus was carrying tourists back to North Macedonia; the dead include a dozen children.
West Africa has highest numbers of child soldiers, says UN
A new report by the United Nations Children’s Fund says children in West and Central Africa have become the most recruited by armed groups in the world and have the highest number of victims of sexual violence.
President, VP and spouses help food kitchen for holiday
President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, helped a local food kitchen prepare Thanksgiving meals for the needy before they leave town for Thanksgiving on ‘Nana-tucket’
‘Glue me back together’: Online pleas to aid parade victims
Friends and families of the roughly 60 people hit by an SUV that sped through a Christmas parade in a suburban Milwaukee downtown say some suffered life-threatening injuries.
Missouri man exonerated in three killings, free after four decades
A Kansas City man who was jailed for more than 40 years for three murders has been released from prison after a judge ruled he was wrongfully convicted in 1979.
‘Some’ killed, many injured when SUV plows into Christmas parade
A suspect was taken into custody Sunday night, said the Waukesha, Wis., police chief.
Horde of thieves ransack department store near San Francisco
Three people were arrested while the majority got away after the large-scale theft Saturday night at the Nordstrom store.
Prominent Afghan doctor kidnapped, killed in northern city
The family had paid the abductors $350,000, but they were called Friday and told where to find the body.
U.S. missionaries say two of 17 abductees freed in Haiti
An Ohio-based church organization could not give the names of those released nor explain why they had been freed.