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The coronavirus has landed in Antarctica, the last continent previously free from COVID19, Chile's military said this week, as health and army officials scrambled to clear out and quarantine staff from a remote research station surrounded by ocean and ice...

Canada is introducing extra measures to screen people who have spent time in Britain to check for a fastspreading mutated COVID19 variant, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair told a briefing on Tuesday.

A lawyer for Lev Parnas, the indicted former associate of Rudy Giuliani, asked a federal judge Tuesday to order the White House and Justice Department turn over any emails or text messages in which they discussed the decision to charge his client with mak...

For the past decade, the Hallmark Channel has been a reliable destination for holiday programming. And in a year when many Americans are homebound because of the COVID19 pandemic, network executives say there's been a craving for the feelgood movies.

Mexico had the most journalists killed in retaliation for their work in 2020, followed by Afghanistan and the Philippines, the New Yorkbased Committee to Protect Journalists says in a new report.

When businesswoman Marina Wessolowski arrived in Cape Town on Dec. 12 she was looking forward to spending Christmas with family and friends before flying back to Germany early next month.

The U.S. secretary of the Treasury on Monday publicly confirmed that his department had been breached more than a week after Reuters first reported the hack.

Eight Minneapolis police officers who fired their guns that killed an armed man outside a home during a domestic disturbance and one officer who fired a nonlethal round have been cleared of wrongdoing, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said Monday.

The deaths of three people in two Colorado avalanches since Friday have experts warning those headed to the mountainous backcountry to be careful and pay attention to forecasts.

Tunisian authorities say a group that has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group was behind the weekend beheading of a sheep farmer that has raised national concern.

Governments across Europe are trying to navigate between avoiding the spread of the coronavirus over the Christmas holiday season and allowing people to celebrate with family and friends.

Australia's most populous state on Sunday reported six new cases of the novel coronavirus in people returning from overseas and in quarantine, and authorities said among them were two cases of the fast-spreading new strain.

U.S. congressional leaders said on Sunday they had reached agreement on a $900 billion package to provide the first new aid in months to an economy hammered by the coronavirus pandemic, with votes likely on Monday.

Shirley Abrahamson, the longestserving Wisconsin Supreme Court justice in state history and the first woman to serve on the high court, has died. She was 87.

The United States is monitoring the new strain of COVID19 emerging in the United Kingdom, multiple U.S. officials said on Sunday, adding that it was unclear whether the mutated variant had made its way to America.

Several European countries placed new restrictions on travel to and from the United Kingdom on Sunday due to concern over a new strain of the coronavirus that is spreading rapidly there.