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Record cases in at least three states — Arizona, Alabama and Ohio — pushed the cumulative case load to over 15 million, according to a Reuters tally of state and county data. With the virus showing no sign of abating, leading health officials are once again sounding the alarm of further spread when…

Restaurants in Southern California, the San Francisco Bay Area and the state’s agricultural San Joaquin Valley shut for all but takeout and delivery. Playgrounds closed, stores reduced capacity and hair salons and barbershops shuttered. The moves affected about three-quarters of the nearly 40 milli…

With just over three weeks before Britain completes its journey out of the bloc, a senior UK government source said there was “every chance we are not going to get there” and EU officials said, if anything, negotiations had gone backwards. Since Britain left the European Union in January, the two s…

Approximately 3,000 people will no longer receive financial support from the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program by the end of the month even as many businesses remain  on hiatus, Whipps said. “We cannot continue the wait-and-see approach and expect people with no sources of income to sustain …

“For all intents and purposes, the ceasefire is dead. It is gone. It was gone a long time ago,” the chief executive said partially in Filipino during a pre-recorded televised address aired late Monday night. Just last Friday, Duterte expressed support for United Nations Secretary Genera…

Iran has blamed Israel for the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was seen by Western intelligence services as the mastermind of a covert Iranian program to develop nuclear weapons capability. Tehran has long denied any such ambition. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility for…

The recertification followed a hand recount that was triggered by an audit and a formal recount that was requested by Republican President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, both of which upheld Biden’s victory in the state, the press release said.

The reasons for the delay in the public education process are legalistic, logistical, and public health-oriented in nature. On the legalistic and logistical side, while the 4th FSM ConCon has passed two proposed constitutional amendments for the public at large to vote on — one regarding the thresh…

Austin, who would be the first Black U.S. secretary of defense, was a surprise pick over Michele Flournoy, a former top Defense Department official who was considered the leading contender for the job. Flournoy would have been the first woman defense secretary. The news was first reported by Politi…

A group from the Democratic-led House of Representatives and Republican-run Senate is expected to roll out the formal text of a $908 billion Covid-19 relief bill to blunt the health and economic impact of the virus into the early days of President-elect Joe Biden’s administration. “With the economy…