U.S. stocks closed higher on Monday, at the end of a volatile month for Wall Street where the tech-heavy Nasdaq narrowly avoided its worst ever start to the year and the S&P 500 recorded its weakest January performance since 2009.

In a horrifying report of persecution against Christians, a pastor in Pakistan was shot and killed on his way home from his church’s service on Sunday, January 30.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced renewed calls to resign on Monday after a report found that alcohol-fueled events at his offices and residence when COVID-19 lockdown rules were in force should never have taken place.

Last week, three military doctors presented information that they said pointed to a surge in adverse medical effects from the vaccine at a COVID -19 panel.

A new ABC poll found that over three-quarters of Americans, 76% to be exact, would prefer Biden to consider “all possible nominees” for the job.

A U.S. judge in Georgia rejected plea agreements reached between federal prosecutors and two of the three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, saying she was not willing to be bound to the 30-year federal prison sentence set in the agreement.

Progressives aren’t letting up in their aggressive battle against Virginia’s new Republican governor’s efforts to give parents a voice.