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Boston is delaying plans to reopen the city's schools after the city's coronavirus positivity rate climbed higher than 4%, Mayor Marty Walsh announced Wednesday.

A drug company says it has asked the U.S. government to allow emergency use of an experimental antibody therapy based on early results from a study that suggested the drug reduced symptoms, the amount of virus, hospitalizations and ER visits for patients...

A 19yearold man who was wanted on a murder charge in Georgia has been arrested on suspicion of capital murder in connection with the shooting death of an Arkansas police officer, authorities said.

The U.N. World Food Program says it is outraged by an attack on a convoy carrying food aid in South Sudan that left one crew member missing and three with gunshot wounds.

Charpentier, 51, and Doudna, 56, are just the sixth and seventh women to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

The Czech Republic reported a record 4,457 new coronavirus cases in a single day, Health Ministry data showed on Wednesday, as a spike in infections over the past month is now rising at Europe's fastest pace.

An Indonesian seaman bust out of a South Korean quarantine facility by breaking through a wall a day before he was due to complete a mandatory two weeks in isolation, a health official said on Wednesday.

Several countries are moving to adjust to the new work-from-home reality, aware that many employees have little appetite to return to the office full-time even once the pandemic has passed.

A Russian man accused of the downtown Berlin daylight murder of a Georgian on Moscow's orders was going on trial Wednesday, in a case that has contributed to growing friction between Germany and Russia.

As a young law student, Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett lived in a house owned by cofounders of People of Praise, a religious community that teaches that men are divinely ordained as the heads of both family and faith.

White House national security adviser Robert OBrien said Tuesday the United States will not tolerate any election interference from foreign countries.

The United Arab Emirates' foreign minister said on Tuesday, in a joint statement with Israeli and German counterparts, that the most important thing that must be emphasized today is the return of hope to Palestinians and Israelis to work for a twostate so...

Activists who were outraged when a white Kansas City police officer knelt on the back of a Black pregnant woman during an arrest last week have set up camp outside City Hall and say they plan to stay until the officer and police chief are fired.

A German court convicted a male nurse Tuesday of three cases of murder for injecting elderly patients with fatal doses of insulin because he was tired of caring for them or wanted to steal their belongings.

The St. Louis couple facing felony charges for pointing guns at racial injustice protesters will be back in court next week, and their attorney expects a grand jury decision by then on whether they'll face indictment.

Cyprus on Tuesday harshly criticised plans by a Turkish Cypriot politician to reopen parts of an abandoned holiday resort to the public, saying it ran contrary to international law.