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Americans are rushing to cast ballots ahead of the November election at an unprecedented pace, early voting numbers show, indicating a possible record turnout for the showdown between President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden.

The 2020 Nobel Prize for physics is being announced Tuesday, an award that has in the past honored discoveries about the tiniest of particles and the vast mysteries of outer space.

President Donald Trump's return to the White House to recover from the coronavirus seems certain to raise the already heightened anxiety level of the journalists assigned to follow him.

Indonesian workers launched protests in several cities on Tuesday to oppose the passage a day earlier of a controversial new jobs law that the government says is vital to attract investment but critics view as too probusiness. Parliament passed into la...

After crushing their COVID19 outbreaks in the spring and keeping them in check all summer, states in the U.S. Northeast are now seeing infections accelerate, with New York reporting nearly 10,000 new cases last week.

President Donald Trump returned to the White House on Monday after a threenight hospital stay for treatment for COVID19, facing a staff hit by a wave of infections and a campaign further shadowed by the pandemic four weeks before Election Day.

Kamala Harris and Mike Pence will be separated by a seethrough barrier to reduce the risk of coronavirus transmission at Wednesday's vice presidential debate.

President Donald Trump said he would leave the hospital on Monday where he has been treated for COVID19, returning to a White House hit by a wave of infections and a campaign further shadowed by the pandemic four weeks before Election Day.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is knocked back but not knocked down, while hospitalized with the coronavirus, the Star Ledger reported Monday.

As President Donald Trump announced he would leave a military hospital on Monday after three days of COVID19 treatment, challenger Joe Biden attacked the president for downplaying the seriousness of the disease even after contracting it.

A former tech executive was sentenced Monday to one year of home confinement for paying $300,000 to bribe his son's way into Georgetown University as a tennis recruit, even though the son did not play tennis.

Cambodias government on Monday officially denied suggestions that its demolition of a U.S.funded facility at one of its naval bases is a signal that China will be granted basing privileges there, saying the work only involves planned infrastructure improv...

Conductor Andris Nelsons has reached agreement on contract extensions with both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Gewandhausorchester of Leipzig, Germany, the parties announced on Monday.

The U.S. Supreme Court returned to work on Monday for the first time since liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, opening its new term as Senate Republicans pursued quick confirmation of President Donald Trump's conservative nominee to replace her.

More Americans blame the U.S. government instead of foreign nations for the coronavirus crisis in the United States, a rebuke to the Trump administration's contention that China or other countries are most at fault, a new poll shows.

A technical failure in England's COVID19 testing data system has now been fixed and should not be repeated, Work and Pensions Secretary Thérèse Coffey said on Monday.