‘This is the most shocking, most tragic, least surprising thing I’ve ever seen,’ said Stephen Colbert, host of ‘The Late Show.’
Erica Nitschke
Columnist
Posted inBusiness
OPEC+ emerges from 2020 chaos to face delicate balancing act
As one of the most tumultuous years in oil’s history ends, a delicate task now confronts OPEC+.
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Posted inBusiness
Minority-owned companies waited months for loans, data shows
Thousands of minority-owned small businesses were at the end of the line in the government’s coronavirus relief program as many struggled to find banks to accept their applications.
Posted inPolitics
Pelosi narrowly reelected speaker, faces difficult 2021
Rep. Jared Golden, D-Me., voted for Illinois Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth — the Constitution doesn’t require the speaker to be a House member.
Posted inNation & World
Rally in Baghdad marks 1 year since killing of Iran Gen. Qassim Soleimani
The killing of the powerful Iranian general and a top Iraqi militia leader pushed Tehran and Washington perilously close to all-out conflict and sparked outrage in Iraq.
Posted inNation & World
The Latest: Japan’s prime minister weighs state of emergency
TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Monday vaccine approval was being speeded up and border controls beefed up to curb the spread of the coronavirus, and he promised to consider declaring a state of emergency. Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike and the governors of Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa had asked the national government Saturday […]
Posted inNation & World
Third state identifies coronavirus variant as U.S. surpasses 20 million cases
Florida’s identification of the more transmissible coronavirus variant, first detected in the U.K., is a reminder that the pandemic remains strong as a new year begins.
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‘Our children die in our hands’: Floods ravage South Sudan
Some 1 million people in the country have been displaced or isolated for months by the worst flooding in memory.
Posted inElection 2020, Politics
Republicans torn over Trump’s Electoral College challenge of Biden
The effort to subvert the will of voters is forcing Republicans to make choices that will set the contours of the post-Trump era and an evolving party.
Posted inNation & World
Chicago ends 2020 with more homicides than in all but one year in more than two decades
After three years of falling homicide totals, 2020 ended with 769 homicides — 274 more than the previous year and the most since the 784 homicides in 2016.