About 6,500 people have been told to evacuate their homes in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, due to a fire at a fertilizer plant where 600 tons of potentially explosive ammonium nitrate was stored, city officials said on Tuesday.

Beijing’s COVID-shortened Olympic torch relay began on Wednesday with basketball great Yao Ming and a Chinese soldier wounded in a bloody 2020 border clash with India among the first to carry the symbolic flame on a journey that will last only three days.

A move now known as The Great Resignation began around April of 2021 and has picked up steam to the tune of roughly 47 million workers who left their jobs in the year 2021, according to statistics by the Labor Department.

In the wake of widespread allegations of sexual abuse, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) lost its former Executive Committee president, Ronnie Floyd, when he stepped down in October of 2021. The denomination has just named Floyd’s successor, Pastor Willie McLaurin, who will become the first African American president of the SBC Executive Committee in the history of the denomination.

This week, reports of bomb threats specifically targeting historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) around the United States circulated through news and social media.

Tsunami-hit Tonga said two wharf workers had come down with COVID-19, prompting the previously virus-free nation to go into lockdown on Wednesday, but the waterfront workers were not on docks being used by foreign navies to deliver aid.