Fifty-two people, including 12 children, were on board when a bus caught fire and crashed on a western Bulgarian highway.

The prosecution has delivered its rebuttal to the defense's closing arguments and the judge has delivered instructions for the jury ahead of deliberations.

Community members prayed and held a candlelight vigil a block from where several people were killed during a parade in Wisconsin on Sunday. At the end of the vigil, organizers read the names of those who lost their lives.

President Biden announced that he was nominating Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, to another four-year term. He also nominated Lael Brainard, a Federal Reserve governor, as the vice chair.

Law enforcement officials in Waukesha, Wis., provide an update on their investigation after a driver struck dozens of people with an S.U.V. at the city's Christmas parade on Sunday, killing at least five people and injuring more than 40 others.

Protesters gathered at the Circus Maximus in Rome during the 18th consecutive weekend of protests against Italy's coronavirus certificate, known as the Green Pass.

Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said the U.S. had joined calls for the People's Republic of China to provide proof of Peng Shuai's whereabouts. The tennis star became unreachable after making public allegations of sexual assault against a former high-ranking Chinese official.

Protesters gathered outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., to voice their opposition to the jury's decision to acquit Kyle Rittenhouse on all accounts.

The Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccine boosters for those 18 and older, in preparation for holiday travel and cold winter months.

The country became the first Western democracy to announce that it would require Covid vaccinations for its entire adult population.