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White House executive offices close cafeterias after employee tests positive for coronavirus

The eatery of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, known as the Ike's Eatery, and the cafeteria of the New Executive Office Building (NEOB) have been tem...

California surpasses NY in COVID-19 cases

New York , which experienced a high number of infections and deaths in the spring during the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, had been the state with the ...

D11 releases Return to Learn plan

And then on Wednesday's their school is closed for deep cleaning. "The middle school and high school where the students are bigger and the classrooms are smalle...

Facebook Adds Label On Trump's Mail-in Voting Post

Union County Clerk Lance Meisenheimer is sharing the latest update about voting in the 2020 general election, which is scheduled in November. This new approac...

Dr. Birx: Stem Virus Surge So It Doesn't Travel

Louis, the report says. If you wait around yet another a few to four, even 5, days, you are going to start off to see a remarkable increase in conditions. Birx ...

Indiana's mask mandate to start on July 27

Additionally, face coverings will be required in schools for students in the third grade and above, faculty, staff, volunteers and anyone else in schools. Acc...

Trump's new immigration fight: how to redraw House districts

Supreme Court ruled past year that the Trump Administration can not require the Census Bureau to ask respondents if they are citizens, leaving officials wi...

Turkey's Hagia Sophia holds first Friday prayers since conversion back to mosque

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was scheduled to attend the inaugural prayers inside the sixth-century monument along with around 500 dignitaries, as h...

Trump to address school re-openings at briefing on Thursday -White House

Halkett later addressed the issue on Twitter, writing "Thanks for asking @charliespiering ... there's a lot of misreporting out there about that briefing". De...

US, UK Change Diplomatic Immunity Rules After British Man Was Killed

Dominic Raab this morning said changes had been made that would "see justice done" if another family were to end up in a similar situation to that of the Dunn ...

"This Is Abhorrent": Portland Mayor Tear Gassed by Federal Officers

He said that he saw no provocation to warrant the aggressive behavior, and called it "flatout urban warfare". Security forces have frequently tear-gassed and ...

Ministers consider new powers after Russian Federation report

The government stalled publication of the report for more than seven months, with the main opposition Labour Party suggesting that Prime Minister Boris Johnson...

Malaysia in $3.9 bn settlement with Goldman over 1MDB

It is lower than the $7.5-billion settlement that the previous government had sought. Malaysian and US prosecutors had alleged that the bond sales organized b...

Bolsonaro Once Again Tests Positive for Covid-19

Similarly to Trump printing his signature on the US$1,200 coronavirus rescue checks that went out from the US Treasury, Bolsonaro's government worked to make su...

Judge blocks U.S. agents from arresting observers in Portland

Earlier in the day, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order barring federal law enforcement from using force against journalists and legal observe...

Australia posts record number of new COVID-19 infections

Unlike then, almost all of Wednesday's new infections were contracted locally. 'This makes sure that individuals are no even worse off and, in reality, Vict...

US hits 11 Chinese companies with sanctions over human rights abuses

Paris is carefully monitoring the situation in Xinjiang but also want worldwide independent observers and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachele...

Teachers' union files lawsuit over school reopening order

Now the FEA is taking things a step further. Still, many teachers in Florida have expressed concern about resuming in-person classes - some reporting they'd r...

China strongly condemns US demand to close Chinese consulate in Houston

The researcher, Juan Tang, is charged with visa fraud, accused of concealing her membership in China's military and Communist Party in seeking permission to...

AOC to Yoho: 'I am someone's daughter too'

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez excoriated Representative Ted Yoho on the House floor on Thursday morning after Yoho reportedly called her a sexist sl...

Iranian passenger plane 'harassed' over Syria

Central Command spokesman Navy Capt. Bill Urban, said. Another man, his face streaked with blood, described how his head hit the roof of the plane during the ...

UK Announces Hong Kongers' Route To British Citizenship

The move "severely violated (Britain's) own commitments, seriously interfered with the internal affairs of China and seriously violated worldwide law and the ...

Portland standoff with U.S. agents ongoing after mayor tear-gassed

Federal officers have emerged from the courthouse at least four times in recent days, including on Wednesday, to confront the crowd. "I want to thank the thou...

WHO chief says comments questioning his independence 'untrue and unacceptable'

Pompeo delivered the speech on the heels of a U.S. order to close the Chinese consulate in Houston - "because it was a hub of spying and intellectual propert...

Trump scraps Republican convention in Florida due to coronavirus

A few minutes later, answering questions from reporters, he offered what was perhaps a more candid assessment: "I could see the media saying 'Oh, this is very u...

SA sees record number of single-day COVID-19 fatalities

The doctor explained that this is largely because South Africa's outbreak began earlier than other African countries, and is now in the later stages of the viru...

Biden Considering 4 Black Women as Running Mate

Biden, who has held a string of virtual fundraisers as he has been largely forced off the campaign trail by the coronavirus outbreak, also leads in opinion poll...

Islamist militants kill 4 aid workers in Nigeria

At the end of the speech, one of the gunmen ordered that the aid workers be killed. The group's decade-long insurgency has left thousands dead, displaced many...

China threatens Britain with revenge over Hong Kong citizenship offer

However, China opposes such a policy as interfering in domestic affairs, a spokesman for its foreign ministry says, calling the move a flagrant violation of B...

Pandemic will get 'worse before it gets better,' Trump warns

Trump spoke and took questions for about 20 minutes without medical professionals Dr. Anthony Fauci or Dr. Deborah Birx on stage. "We'll do it carefully", he ...

Judge Orders Former Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Released From Prison

Cohen has been in isolation at an Otisville, N.Y., prison camp, quarantined while prison authorities ensure he does not have the coronavirus. During Tuesday m...

UK Officials Avoided Looking Into Russian Meddling

But relations reached an all-time low after the poisoning of former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripaland his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in 2...

Coronavirus: Trump says he's 'comfortable' having son, grandchildren back at schools

President Donald Trump has warned that the USA pandemic will probably "get worse before it gets better", as he revived his coronavirus briefings . Few people ...

Indian govt advises against use of N-95 valved masks: Here’s why

The Union health ministry warning against use of N95 masks with valved respirator has lead to confusion in the state capital. Here's why using masks with valv...

Afghan girl kills Taliban fighters who murdered her parents

Officials told AFP the Taliban had come to kill Gul's father, who was the village chief, because he supported the government. Arif Aber, spokesman for the...