8 hours ago By Anthony Zurcher, @awzurcher, North America correspondent, at the debate in Atlanta Before Thursday evening, many Americans had expressed concerns about Joe Biden’s age and fitness for office. To say…
Joe Biden’s campaign was prepared to come out swinging after tonight’s debate against Donald Trump. Instead, they were backed into a corner. The campaign’s top surrogates wound up pinned at…
Oklahoma’s top education official has ordered schools in the state to begin incorporating the Bible into lessons, in the latest US cultural flashpoint over religion in the classroom. A directive…
14 hours ago By Natalie Sherman, BBC News EPA The US Supreme Court has struck down a part of the bankruptcy deal for Purdue Pharma that would have shielded members of the…
A huge sinkhole opened up on a football field in Alton’s Gordon Moore Park, southern Illinois, swallowing a light pole, benches and artificial turf. The hole was caused by subsidence…
A reward for information leading to the arrest of Ruja Ignatova, known as the Missing Cryptoqueen, has been increased by US authorities to $5m (£4m). The Bulgarian-born German woman, 44,…
After last night, many Democrats are panicked. They hoped that President Biden, 81, could convince voters that his age was nothing to worry about. That he could counter Donald Trump’s…
This was probably the shortest lived coup d’état in Bolivia’s history. But who was behind it? As NC readers are no doubt well aware by now, the South American country…
So many locals over so many decades have left Gourin in rural Brittany for the United States that Air France awarded the town a miniature Statue of Liberty. So proud…
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