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.
For the second day in a row, the United States set a daily record for coronavirus cases when more than 79,000 infections were reported. Friday's 79,303 cases, as tallied by NBC News, topped Thursday's 77,640. The previous high of 75,723 was set July 29. The new benchmarks were hit as the pandemic has …
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 Day amid the coronavirus pandemic, and it's unclear how many voters have yet to make up their …
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 Democrats in Florida. Both Iran and Russia deny any role. Here's what we know so far about the attempted election interference and what U.S. intelligence agencies are doing to stop it.
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. Last week’s figure was down from 842,000 the previous week, the Labor Department said …
(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 and set up a final confirmation vote eight days before the election. McConnell's move sets up a …
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 $8 billion and close down the company. The money will go to opioid treatment and abatement …
WASHINGTON — Lawyers appointed by a federal judge to identify migrant families who were separated by the Trump administration say that they have yet to track down the parents of 545 children and that about two-thirds of those parents were deported to Central America without their children, …
The United States on Thursday signed an anti-abortion declaration along with more than 30 countries representing over 1.6 billion people. Overnight, women in Poland took to the streets to protest a clampdown on abortion rights in that country. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Health …
(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 Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The protests turned bloody on Tuesday in Lagos, the country's …
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 of the tap was to collect a sample of material from the asteroid, but the engineers behind the …
