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The ad, released last week, discusses Trump’s effort to recover from the coronavirus personally, as well as his administration’s work to address the pandemic. The 30-second spot uses older remarks from Fauci in a way that suggests he was praising the president. “I can’t imagine that anybody could b…

A government statement said despite knowing about the risks, he undertook the trip to France to deal with a range of issues of importance to French Polynesia. It said he followed the travel protocol for Tahiti and tested negative three days before flying back. During his stay in France, he met Prim…

“We must be a bit stricter in places where infection chains spread mostly, which is parties and, unfortunately, also travel,” the chancellor’s chief of staff, Helge Braun, told public broadcaster ARD. “We are at the beginning of a second wave and only the politicians’ and the population’s determina…

The party’s newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, on Monday published a photograph of Kim, flanked by top aides at a long banqueting table, waving to the audience. State broadcaster KCNA said Kim was greeted by loud cheers as he made his entrance on Sunday for the “Grand Mass Gymnastics and Artistic Performanc…

China, which claims democratically ruled Taiwan as its own territory, has repeatedly denounced Taipei for offering support to Chinese-administered Hong Kong’s protest movement, saying the forces of Taiwan and Hong Kong independence are colluding. Taiwan says it has a duty to stand up for democracy …

Biden encouraged potential voters at a campaign stop in the must-win battleground of Pennsylvania, telling them “make sure to vote because the only way we lose this is by the chicanery going on relative to polling places.” Biden referenced what he said were attempts by Trump to discourage voting, i…

The South American country has now registered 5,082,637 total confirmed coronavirus cases and 150,198 total deaths.

China, which has for years been locked in maritime disputes with other coastal states in the South China Sea, has in recent months held exercises in disputed parts of the strategic waterway, at a time when other claimants are battling coronavirus outbreaks. “Both sides reaffirmed the continuing vit…

Trump took a test on Saturday which showed that he was no longer a “transmission risk to others,” his physician Sean Conley said in a statement, adding that an assortment of tests taken by the president showed there was no longer evidence “of actively replicating virus.” The White House had no imme…