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In October, 31 states set records for increases in new cases, 21 for hospitalized COVID-19 patients and 14 for record increases in deaths.

Tropical storm Eta barreled west through the Caribbean on Sunday, bound for Nicaragua and Honduras, where it is expected to unleash heavy rain and hurricaneforce winds in the coming week, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

China has been conducting a national population census every 10 years since the 1990s. The exercise was expected to provide the size of its ageing population.

Police in Belarus fired warning shots into the air and started detaining protesters on Sunday as thousands began to march in the capital Minsk to demand veteran leader Alexander Lukashenko leave power, media reports and social media footage showed.

A federal judge in Texas will hold a hearing on Monday on whether Houston officials illegally allowed drivethrough voting and must toss more than 100,000 votes in the Democraticleaning area.

Some small shops and services, including a dog grooming salon, remained open on Saturday in a small town outside Paris with support from their local mayor, amid signs of sporadic pushback against a new coronavirus lockdown in France.

Scottish movie legend Sean Connery, who shot to international stardom as the suave, sexy and sophisticated British agent James Bond and went on to grace the silver screen for four decades, has died aged 90.

Malaysia Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin called on lawmakers on Saturday to ensure the country's 2021 budget is passed to tackle the COVID19 pandemic.

A Connecticut prosecutor said on Friday that he would not retry Michael Skakel, a Kennedy family member, for the 1975 killing of a neighbor in the wealthy New York City suburb of Greenwich, ending the notorious case 45 years to the day after the murder.

French public debt will reach 119.8% of national output in 2020 because of the additional cost of a second lockdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic, compared with the 117.5% previously forecast, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told Le Paris...

The U.N. Security Council defeated a Russian resolution Friday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of a U.N. measure demanding equal participation for women in activities promoting global peace, with opponents objecting to its failure to adequately addres...

A strong earthquake struck the Aegean Sea on Friday and was felt in both Greece and Turkey, where four people were killed as buildings collapsed in the coastal province of Izmir.

By planting a sign in early October supporting Joe Biden on a country road near her Minnesota dairy farm, Meg Stuedemann initially stood out from her neighbors.

In the study, published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society, they examined whether the amount of RNA, or genomic load, of the coronavirus detected in swab tests of patients being admitted to the hospital with viral pneumonia is associated with...

When Joe Biden was last in Iowa, his campaign was on the verge of collapse and he was soundly trounced in the caucuses by a former Indiana mayor nearly 40 years his junior. He returns Friday as the Democratic nominee, believing he's just days away from be...

Pennsylvania officials on Thursday urged local election offices to begin counting mailin ballots on Election Day, after several Republicanled counties in the battleground state said they would not start tabulating the votes until a day later.