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Britain and the European Union failed on Friday to secure a trade agreement, saying talks would be paused so negotiators could talk to politicians to get better guidance on where to go next. With less than four weeks left until Britain leaves the EU’s orbit on Dec. 31, both sides …

The health officers in six San Francisco Bay Area regions issued a new stay-at-home order Friday as the number of virus cases surge and hospitals fill. The changes will take effect for most of the area at 10 p.m. PT on Sunday and last through Jan. 4. The counties have …

A federal judge has dismissed neglect and misconduct charges against three employees of a tourist boat that sank on a Missouri lake in 2018, killing 17 people. U.S. District Judge Doug Harpool filed an order Wednesday upholding a recommendation made in September. Kenneth Scott McKee, of Verona, the captain of …

The performers at Russia’s majestic Bolshoi Theatre have danced their way through the Bolshevik revolution, bombing by the Nazis in the Second World War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, but surviving the COVID-19 pandemic may be their greatest challenge yet. The historic Moscow landmark closed for six months …

The world’s governments plan to produce more than double the amount of coal, oil and gas in 2030 than would be consistent with curbing global warming, the United Nations and research groups said on Wednesday in the latest warning over climate change. Some of the largest fossil fuel producers in …

The recommended quarantine time for close contacts of a positive COVID-19 case is being reduced by up to a week in the United States, but while some of Canada’s health experts say a similar approach could be useful here, others aren’t so sure. The U.S.-based Centers for Disease Control and …

For Pascal Imperato, acommunicable disease epidemiologist who in 1976 was in charge of immunizing New York City against a potential swine flu epidemic, the effort to vaccinate the population against COVID-19 feels like a familiar challenge. “We were going to vaccinate six million people in six weeks,” he said in …

Kim Zavesky is desperate to return to her home in Golden, B.C. After retiring last year, she and her husband — both Americans — sold their house in Chandler, Ariz., and moved most of their belongings to their second home in Golden, in southeastern British Columbia. The plan was to …

Coronavirus tracker:Follow the spread of COVID-19 as case numbers remain high in most of Canada. Manitoba records its highest single-day death toll. Ontario school program seeking out asymptomatic cases using PCR tests. Alberta government tweet reveals that COVID-19 ethnicity data is being collected, but not disseminated. Read more: Bank earnings …

The United States entered the final month of the year with expectations that promising vaccine candidates will soon be approved to halt the rapidly spreading coronavirus after 4.2 million new cases were reported in November. The new COVID-19 cases were more than double the previous monthly record set in October, …