The assistant commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps has tested positive for the coronavirus, days after he and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were in a Pentagon meeting with a coast guard leader who was infected with the virus.
A suburban Buffalo bar patron accused of giving a fatal shove to an elderly man during a confrontation about the need to wear a mask has pleaded not guilty to criminally negligent homicide. It is the latest incident in which arguments over masks have escalated, leading to violence, during the pandemic.
U.S. President Donald Trump, who is likely still contagious, has returned to the Oval Office for the first time since he was diagnosed and hospitalized last Friday. The White House says additional safeguards are in place.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump's effort to block Manhattan's district attorney from obtaining eight years of his tax returns for a criminal probe into the U.S. president and his businesses.
The U.S. Justice Department announced charges Wednesday against two men from Britain who joined the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and were part of a cell that beheaded Western hostages, a law enforcement official said.
Rihanna's Savage x Fenty show included a section in which lingerie models danced to the song Doom by Coucou Chloe. The 2017 track includes a passage from the Hadith, a sacred text to Muslims that is revered as a record of the Prophet Muhammad's sayings and actions.
A Kenyan court on Wednesday found two men guilty for supporting the 2013 attack on Nairobi's upscale Westgate mall that left 67 people dead.
Hurricane Delta made landfall in Mexico today as an extremely dangerous Category 2 storm, coming ashore near Puerto Morelos along the northeastern coast of Yucatan Peninsula.
French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer A. Doudna have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a method of genome editing known as CRISPR.
Facebook said Tuesday it will it will remove pages, groups and Instagram accounts if they represent QAnon, the baseless conspiracy theory that paints U.S. President Donald Trump as a secret warrior.
Eddie Van Halen, the guitar virtuoso whose blinding speed, control and innovation propelled his band Van Halen into one of hard rock's biggest groups, fuelled the unmistakable fiery solo in Michael Jackson's hit Beat It and became elevated to the status of rock god, has died. He was 65.
Johnny Nash, a singer-songwriter, actor and producer who rose from pop crooner to early reggae star to the creator and performer of the million-selling anthem I Can See Clearly Now, died Tuesday, his son said.
The Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan slid deeper into chaos as rival opposition factions made grabs for power on Wednesday, a day after they stormed government buildings, forcing the prime minister to quit and a parliamentary election to be annulled.
U.S. vice-presidential debate rarely affect votes. But they can be informative. Tonight's showdown between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence will reveal contrasting attitudes to the COVID-19 pandemic. It's why Harris has demanded that protective glass be placed between her and Pence.
The race to secure a vaccine against COVID-19 has pitted country against country, which could undermine efforts to control the virus worldwide.
Canada's defence policy has rested for generations on the assumption of an unshakeable partnership with the U.S. Yet old alliances suddenly seem less sturdy in the Trump era. Would a Biden win would alleviate that?
North American stock markets plunged after U.S. President Donald Trump pulled the plug on fiscal stimulus negotiations until after next month's election.
