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Emmy host Jimmy Kimmel and an alpaca sharing the spotlight. Winners accepting at home in designer pajamas or maybe yoga pants. More than 100 chances for a balky internet connection to bring Sundays ceremony to a crashing halt.

Macmillan's longtime CEO, John Sargent, will be leaving at the end of the year, forced out by what parent company Holtzbrinck Publishing Group is calling a disagreement regarding the direction of Macmillan.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-MIDEAST CASES Chart. As coronavirus cases spread around the world, this digital embed tracks the overall number of reported cases in the Mideast region over time. This chart will update automatically throughout each day. Source: Johns Hopk...

Isabel Wilkerson's Caste, her acclaimed study of racism in the United States, is among 10 nominees on the National Book Award longlist for nonfiction. The poetry list features works by Natalie Diaz and LillianYvonne Bertram, whose Travesty Generator featu...

VIRUS OUTBREAK-GLOBAL CASE COUNT A searchable table of confirmed cases of COVID-19, including recoveries and deaths, by country. This table is updated each hour. Source: Johns Hopkins University; Esri.

Former FBI Director James Comey will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 30, appearing just a month before the presidential election as Republicans have tried to make the case that he and his agency conspired against Donald Trump in 201...

The warming Gulf of Maine recorded its hottest single day this summer, reaching 69.85 degrees Fahrenheight (21 degrees Celsius).

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden warned the United Kingdom that it must honour Northern Ireland's 1998 peace agreement as it withdraws from the European Union or there would be no separate U.S. trade deal.

The main opposition candidate in Belarus' disputed presidential election said Thursday that activists are compiling a list of law enforcement officers who were allegedly involved in violence against protesters denouncing the results of the vote.

The Philippines is considering allowing more nurses and other medical professionals to leave for jobs abroad after banning them from travel so they can fight coronavirus at home, President Rodrigo Duterte's spokesman said on Thursday.

A new report by the United Nations commission of inquiry on Burundi sees little optimism in the government of new President Evariste Ndayishimiye, saying it is extremely concerned that he has appointed senior officials who face international sanctions for...

NEW DELHI India has confirmed another record jump in coronavirus cases, logging 97,894 cases in the past 24 hours.

Attorney General William Barr took aim at his own Justice Department on Wednesday night, criticizing prosecutors for behaving as headhunters" in their pursuit of prominent targets and politically charged cases.

If carbon emissions continue at current rates, so much mercury will leach from thawing permafrost that fish in the Yukon River could become dangerous to eat within a few decades, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature Communication...

An official said Wednesday that Mexico City suffered 20,535 excess deaths attributable to COVID19 between April and August, almost double the number reported in the official death toll of 11,318.