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The number of deaths from the novel coronavirus this year is now double the number of people who die annually from malaria — and the death rate has increased in recent weeks as infections surge in several countries. “Our world has reached an agonizing milestone,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Gute…

Here are five things to watch for during the 90-minute televised debate in Cleveland: Flashpoints The face-to-face match-up comes after the New York Times revealed that Trump, a wealthy former businessman and reality television star, paid only $750 in federal income taxes in both 2016 and 2017, and…

The online state polls, conducted earlier in September and released this week, found Biden and Trump tied among likely voters in Florida and North Carolina. Biden led by 1 percentage point in Arizona, 3 points in Pennsylvania and 5 points in Wisconsin and Michigan. All six are critical to determini…

In a report that Trump dismissed as “fake news,” the Times said the Republican president also paid no federal income taxes in 10 of the previous 15 years through 2017, despite receiving $427.4 million through 2018 from his reality television program and other endorsement and licensing deals. The di…

The latest SWS survey showed that some 7.6 million families experienced hunger in the past three months. “That’ sad news, though I’m almost sure that’s because the pandemic forced us to shut down the economy,” presidential spokesman Harry Roque said  in an interview. “The only guarantee for us to d…

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said in a statement on Saturday evening that the committee would host a hearing for opening statements on Oct. 12, followed by three to four days of questions and testimony. “It’s going to go fast. We’re looking to do it before the election. So it’…

In an event Thursday at the cabinet office in Majuro, the long-desired and awaited project was signed into reality by Japan Ambassador Norio Saito and Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Casten Nemra. Japan is to spend 1.757 billion Japanese Yen (approximately $16.7 million) for improvement of the wa…

Martires said this in a radio interview following his order to stop conducting lifestyle checks against officials suspected of extravagant living, and restricting of access to the SALN or statement of assets, liabilities and net worth of public officials. “Lifestyle check is a fishing expedition. I…

But every nation gets to take the world stage at the UN General Assembly’s premier annual meeting, and Palau President Tommy E. Remengesau Jr. used his turn Wednesday to illuminate the toll of the coronavirus pandemic, even for a country without any cases of Covid-19. He also pressed environmental …

“Washington should seek new allies and partners,” Elbridge Colby, co-founder of the Marathon Initiative, told the HASC. “Focus on states with shared threat perceptions like China. This is true whether they are democracies are not,” like Vietnam. Christine Wormuth, director of RAND’s international s…