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A year has passed since the central Chinese city of 11 million people was placed under the world's first coronavirus lockdown on January 23. At least 3,869 Wuhan residents eventually died from the virus, which has since claimed more than two million lives...

Top aides to President Joe Biden on Sunday began talks with a group of moderate Senate Republicans and Democrats on a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package as Biden faces increasing headwinds in his effort to win bipartisan backing for the initial legi...

For two Virginia police officers who posed for a photo during the deadly U.S. Capitol insurrection, the reckoning has been swift and public: They were identified, charged with crimes and arrested.

Ramlall, who is also a member of the Hindu Dharma Association of South Africa, said the organization had received a number of complaints about this from families of people who had succumbed to the virus.

For a time in the pre-Christmas lead-up to the Americas Cup regatta off Auckland it seemed INEOS Team UK would go the same way as so many ill-fated British challenges.

Photos that spread quickly over the internet showed troops stretched out under fluorescent lights in parking slots, with few toilets, outlets for charging phones or other facilities.

Republicans on Friday pushed a proposed antiabortion amendment to the Kansas Constitution through the state House, a bitter reminder of election setbacks for abortion rights Democrats on the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing aborti...

A powerful storm nearing Mozambique is expected to intensify into a tropical cyclone on Friday, according to forecasts, dumping rain onto already swollen rivers in an area devastated by Cyclone Idai less than two years ago.

There was no apparent immediate action by Twitter over the Persian-language tweet on Friday by Khamenei, Iran’s highest authority.

Black women were crucial to the Biden-Harris victory, with 90% backing the ticket in November.

Testing wristbands are in. Maskwearing is mandatory. Desks are socially distanced.

A day after President Joe Bidens inauguration went off with only a handful of minor arrests and incidents, more than 15,000 National Guard members are preparing to leave Washington, D.C. and head home.

Overwhelmed by record numbers of COVID19 patients, Portuguese hospital doctors spoke on Thursday of exhaustion and despair, as the government sought to slow contagion rates by ordering all schools to close for 15 days from Friday.

Health officials in the Canadian province of Ontario thought large, central clinics would be the most efficient way to get staff at longterm care homes vaccinated quickly, protecting elderly residents most at risk of severe COVID19 and death.

Pfizer has slashed in half the volume of COVID19 vaccines it will deliver to some EU countries this week, government officials said on Thursday, as frustration over the U.S. drugmaker's unexpected cut in supplies grows.

Russia plans to produce a form of its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine that can be transported and stored at normal fridge temperatures as opposed to 18 Celsius, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said on Thursday. Such a move could help Russia in the globa...