Stepping to the dais in extraordinary times, U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday delivers his state of the union address on the eve of his likely impeachment acquittal and in the aftermath of the chaotic first votes of the race to replace him.
Research is messy and sometimes it's wrong. But science is also self-correcting. That's what happened after a report in the New England Journal of Medicine mistakenly concluded that a woman from Shanghai had spread the coronavirus to colleagues in Germany before experiencing symptoms herself.
Twitter said on Tuesday it would start applying a label to tweets containing synthetic or deceptively edited forms of media, as social media platforms brace for a potential onslaught of misinformation ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday that it has confirmed 27 cases of the new coronavirus spreading person-to-person in nine countries outside of China.
The Iowa Democratic Party says it will release partial results of Monday night's caucuses later Tuesday after a delay that the party attributed to technical issues.
Tesla shares are soaring for the second day in a row after the electric car maker sold more vehicles than analysts thought it would, prompting investors to pour money into the stock at a record pace and send short sellers running for the exits.
A key accuser at Harvey Weinstein's rape trial returned to court on Tuesday to face further questioning by defence lawyers a day after she became so upset that the judge suspended her cross-examination.
Maesaiah Thabane, the spouse of Lesotho's prime minister, is set to be charged with murder in connection with the 2017 killing of his former wife, police said Tuesday.
A day before the Senate is expected to acquit U.S. President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial, the chamber's top Republican on Tuesday exhorted senators to clear Trump and stop Democrats' "factional fever" from scorching America's system of government.
The brother of the suicide bomber who blew himself up at an Ariana Grande concert in the English city of Manchester three years ago was equally guilty of murdering the 22 victims, a court was told on Tuesday.
The European Union expressed regret on Tuesday that the United States has decided to use anti-personnel landmines more widely and once again considers them to be an important weapon of war.
After hours of waiting for results from the caucus vote in Iowa on Monday, the state Democratic Party said results won't be released until Tuesday. The biggest loser in the delay debacle — not including the state party, which is responsible for the caucus process — may just be the eventual winner of the state.
Hong Kong hospitals are cutting services as medical workers strike for a second day to demand the borders with mainland China be shut completely to ward off a virus that caused its first death in the territory
Canadian special forces troops are back to full employment in northern Iraq — but for how long?
The Iowa Democratic Party said Monday night that results from the state's first-in-the-nation caucus were delayed due to "quality checks" and new reporting rules, an embarrassing complication that added a new layer of doubt to an already uncertain presidential primary season.
