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UK Ditches Coal Power, Embraces Elvis

Monday, October 14, 2024

Britain has closed it's last coal-fired power plant, making the country that pioneered coal power, the first to give it up in favor of cleaner options. We hear about the transition. And a small town in Wales has become the unlikely site of a world-renowned Elvis festival.

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Oppenheimer movie dominates SAG Awards, while Streisand wins lifetime prize

Sunday, February 25, 2024

Oppenheimer dominated at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Saturday, as several winners paid tribute to last year's actors' strike. Barbra Streisand was given a lifetime achievement prize.

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Gaza residents break into U.N. warehouse for supplies as Israeli barrage continues

Sunday, October 29, 2023

Thousands of Gaza residents broke into warehouses and distribution centers of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency, grabbing flour and "basic survival items," the organization said on Sunday.

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China has stopped publishing daily COVID data amid reports of a huge spike in cases

Sunday, December 25, 2022

China's National Health Commission said in a statement it would no longer publish daily data and that "from now on, the Chinese CDC will release relevant COVID information for reference and research."

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Nancy Pelosi says she is traumatized by the hammer attack on her husband

Sunday, October 30, 2022

Pelosi said she is grateful for the quick response of law enforcement and medical experts and that she is leaning on her faith in a difficult time.

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Liz Truss will have a claim to being the U.K.'s shortest-serving prime minister

Friday, October 21, 2022

Truss beats George Canning, who was prime minister for 119 days in 1827.

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U.S. star Frances Tiafoe's win means Roger Federer loses final tennis tournament

Monday, September 26, 2022

Tiafoe spoiled the fairytale ending for Federer with a remarkable comeback against Stefanos Tsitsipas, denying the Swiss player a final trophy in the Laver Cup event.

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President Biden mocks Trump at White House Correspondents' Dinner

Sunday, May 01, 2022

Joe Biden addressed the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday night, the first time a president has spoken at the event in six years.

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Ex-Honduran President Hernández will be extradited to the U.S. on drugs charges

Thursday, April 21, 2022

A plane from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is scheduled to arrive in Honduras early Thursday to take former President Juan Orlando Hernández to the U.S. to face drug and weapons charges.

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