In other coronavirus news: Trumps to hold Halloween bash at White House, remdesivir gets FDA approval and Blacks brave pandemic to vote. For the second day in a row, the United States set a daily record...
What Mattered This Week: October 19-23, 2020
Coronavirus cases are soaring in the U.S., with more than 77,000 new cases recorded on Thursday alone. Plus, what happened during the final debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, and the U.S. government says Russian and Iranian hackers are actively attempting to meddle in the November 3 elections. Read up on these and more of the week’s top headlines.
President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden met for their second and final debate as tens of millions of Americans have already voted. A deeply divided country begins its final sprint to Election...
The U.S. government says state-sponsored Iranian and Russian hackers are actively trying to influence the Nov. 3 elections, obtaining some voter registration data and sending out threatening emails to...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of laid-off Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to 787,000, a sign that job losses may have eased slightly but are still running at historically high levels....
(CNN) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, brushing aside Democratic concerns over the expedited timeframe for confirming Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, moved on Friday to cut off debate...
New York (CNN Business) — Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, has agreed to plead guilty to three federal criminal charges for its role in creating the nation's opioid crisis and will pay more than...
About two-thirds of the 1,000-plus parents separated from their kids under a 2017 pilot program were deported before a federal judge ordered that they be found. WASHINGTON — Lawyers appointed by a federal...
Signatories of the Geneva Consensus Declaration pledge to work together to "reaffirm that there is no international right to abortion." The United States on Thursday signed an anti-abortion declaration...
(CNN) — Nigeria has been rocked by days of nationwide protests over police brutality, following widespread claims of kidnapping, harassment and extortion by a controversial police unit known as the Special...
The lawsuit is the highest-profile case the US has brought against a tech company since the government went after Microsoft in the 1990s.
NASA shared astonishing images of its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touching an asteroid yesterday, revealing how the vehicle stirred up rocks and debris on the object’s surface when it made contact. The goal...