NEW YORK – Toni Morrison is on the list. So are John Green and Harper Lee. And John Steinbeck and Margaret Atwood. All wrote books that were among the 100 most subjected to censorship efforts over the past decade, as compiled by the American Library As…

NEW YORK – A U.S. federal judge has temporarily halted a Trump administration order to ban the popular video app TikTok from U.S. app stores. The ban was due to go into effect at the end of the day Sunday by order of the U.S. Commerce Department, the l…

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump issued an executive order Thursday targeting a number of health care issues important to American voters that so far have played to the advantage of his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, in the polls.Trump’s “America Firs…

A World Health Organization official has warned that the global COVID-19 death toll will likely reach as high as 2 million without an effective vaccine. Dr. Mike Ryan, WHO’s emergencies head, said that number could spiral even higher if countries do …

Rio de Janeiro is postponing February’s annual Carnival parade for the first time in a century because of Brazil’s ongoing struggle to contain the coronavirus.Rio’s League of Samba Schools (LIESA) announced Thursday night that the spread of the coronav…

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, announced Friday that the state would move forward with reopening plans despite the spread of the coronavirus.Phase 3 of the state’s reopening plan includes lifting restrictions, including capacity limits, o…

SYDNEY – Australia’s internal borders are to gradually reopen as COVID-19 infections continue to fall. South Australia and Queensland are easing restrictions with the neighboring state, New South Wales, for the first time in months. Australia has recor…

Volunteers planted 20,000 miniature U.S. flags on the grounds of the Washington Monument in the nation’s capital Tuesday, the day the nation reached 200,000 COVID-19 deaths. Each flag represented 10 victims who have perished since the virus first arriv…

Moroto — Members of a joint security have shot dead two prisoners who escaped from Moroto Prison last week.The UPDF 3rd Division Spokesperson, Maj. Peter Mugisha told Daily Monitor that the escapees were shot dead on Saturday in Nadunget Sub-county, Mo…

The Electoral Commission (EC) has identified a company to supply biometric machines for verification of voters before they cast their ballots, Daily Monitor has learnt.A display notice on the EC notice board indicates that Smartmatic International Hold…

The United States is approaching the milestone of 200,000 deaths from the coronavirus, experts monitoring the outbreak say.By Monday evening, the U.S. had more than 6.8 million infections and 199,766 deaths — the most of any nation in either category —…

The U.S. Commerce Department said Monday it is challenging a federal judge’s injunction against its order that Apple and Google remove WeChat from their U.S. app stores due to data privacy and national security concerns.The department’s original order,…

Hundreds of the world’s biggest companies are calling on governments “to act with courage and urgency” to protect the world’s natural resources.Business for Nature is a coalition of 560 companies across all sectors with combined revenues of $4 trillion…