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The Trump administration will send most of its newly purchased 150 million rapid COVID19 tests to U.S. states for schools and critical services, a White House official said on Tuesday, as New York City pushed back reopening classrooms in a deal with union...

Healthcare workers and first responders who are at the highest risk of contracting COVID19 should be at the front of the line for vaccines when they become available, an independent expert panel tapped by top U.S. health officials said on Tuesday.

Michigan State University mostly found no violations of campus policy in a review of roughly 20 former or current staff members who were said to have received complaints about Larry Nassar, the doctor convicted of molesting female athletes.

Colombias Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will no longer have jurisdiction over the investigation into accusations that powerful former President lvaro Uribe tried to strong arm exparamilitaries into testifying in his favor in a case that has rock...

Protests flared in Portland overnight on Monday as demonstrators clashed with police on the streets of the Oregon city, which has become a focus of the U.S. presidential race after months of sometimes violent confrontations.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has decided to endorse 23 freshmen House Democrats in this fall's elections, a bipartisanship move by an organization that has long leaned strongly toward Republicans.

The United States is considering imposing sanctions on seven Belarusians it believes were involved in falsifying the Aug. 9 election and in violence against peaceful protesters, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday.

India reported the most new COVID19 cases of any country in the past week, its nearly half a million fresh infections pushing the global tally up by 1 percent, while overall global new deaths in the past seven days fell by 3% compared to the previous week...

Deep in the Estonian woodlands, a group of volunteers is toiling to restore a bog that was drained last century for mining purposes, turning the area into a major source of greenhouse gas emissions no longer trapped in damp, heavy earth.

White House adviser Jared Kushner hopes another Arab country normalises ties with Israel within months, he said, after arriving in the United Arab Emirates accompanied by Israeli officials on the first commercial flight between the countries.

The family of Paul Rusesabagina hailed a hero in a Hollywood movie about Rwanda's 1994 genocide have accused authorities in Kigali of kidnapping him, speaking out a day after he was paraded before media in handcuffs.

Belarusian authorities on Tuesday resumed detaining protesters in the capital, Minsk, where students took to the streets demanding the resignation of the countrys authoritarian leader after an election the opposition denounced as rigged.

Jared Kushner and U.S. officials visited a major American air base in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, speaking to Emirati pilots on the tarmac, near the advanced F35 fighter jets that the UAE hopes to buy as it normalizes relations with Israel.

Sindh has reported the maximum number of 129,469 coronavirus cases, followed by Punjab at 96,832, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa at 36,118, Islamabad at 15,649.

India's tally of coronavirus infections surged to nearly 3.7 million on Tuesday, as millions of masked students sat for college admission exams after the government refused to defer them.

Joe Biden opened the first week of the generalelection campaign with a morning flight to a mustwin battleground state where he delivered a blistering speech against his rival, President Donald Trump. He dropped off pizzas at a local firehouse, took photos...