Day: December 24, 2020

Normally Bethlehem would be teeming with tourists at this time of year. But churches, holy sites and souvenir shops in the city known to many as Jesus’s birthplace have been quiet since March, when COVID-19 became a global pandemic. Still, residents say they will find joy in Christmas.

Negotiators from the European Union and Britain worked through the night and right into Christmas Eve to put the finishing touches on a trade deal that should avert a chaotic economic break between the two sides on New Year’s Day.

Despite widespread concern about transmission of COVID-19 in schools, Dr. Bonnie Henry said the data so far suggests schools are a “very safe” place to be during the pandemic.

The Toronto Raptors led for most of the first half but went ice cold in the third quarter and fell 113-99 to the New Orleans Pelicans on Wednesday in Tampa, Fla.

An outside force says no criminal charges are warranted in relation to the handcuffing of a woman in a stormtrooper costume outside a Star Wars-themed business in Lethbridge, Alta., last May.