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.
