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The United States reported a record number of new COVID19 cases for the seventh day in a row on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, while the number of deaths surged to their highest daily count since August.

California and several states across the U.S. Midwest tightened restrictions on residents on Tuesday as the nation's top infectious disease specialist called on Americans to remain vigilant until a vaccine can be approved and distributed.

An April trial date was set Tuesday for Michael Avenatti to face charges that he cheated exclient Stormy Daniels out of proceeds from her book.

Hundreds of ducks and other migratory waterfowl have been hit and killed by cars in northwestern Iowa after they mistook wet pavement for wetlands, wildlife officials said.

As poll workers tallied votes from the U.S. presidential election, many social media users interpreted a clerks error in a small, Republican-leaning Michigan county as vote-rigging because it wrongly favored Joe Biden before being fixed.

Top European Union officials called Tuesday for a reboot of relations with the United States under Presidentelect Joe Biden in an attempt to set aside the stark divisions of the last four years over trade, security and the fight against climate change.

Spain stands to receive its first vaccines against COVID19 developed by U.S. pharmaceuticals Pfizer and its partner BioNTech in early 2021, its health minister said on Tuesday, under a deal being negotiated by the European Union.

A criminal investigation into whether the public officials who orchestrated France's response to the COVID19 crisis committed offences including manslaughter and endangering lives will be split into four inquiries, the public prosecutor said.

A Hong Kong journalist appeared in court on Tuesday on a charge of making a false statement to obtain data for a documentary on the police's handling of a mob attack, in a case that has stoked concern over press freedom in the Chineseruled city.

The Trump administration threw the presidential transition into tumult, with President Donald Trump blocking government officials from cooperating with Presidentelect Joe Bidens team and Attorney General William Barr authorizing the Justice Department to...

A report by scientific institutions the British Academy and the Royal Society found that, in part due to circulating misinformation and behavioural factors, around 36% of people in Britain say they are either uncertain or very unlikely to agree to be vacc...

The U.S. State Department put former Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Alemn on a list of corrupt foreign officials Monday, barring him and his family from entering the United States.

Anxiety, depression and insomnia were most common among recovered COVID-19 patients in the study who developed mental health problems, and the researchers also found significantly higher risks of dementia.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he has signed a deal with the leaders of Azerbaijan and Russia to end the military conflict over the NagornoKarabakh region on Tuesday morning after more than a month of bloodshed.

Austrian authorities watched a meeting in Vienna this summer between foreign Islamists and the jihadist who killed four people last week, and trailed him for days but then stopped, news agency APA reported on Monday.

An escalating conflict in Ethiopia's restive Tigray region has killed hundreds of people, sources on the government side said, even as the prime minister sought on Monday to reassure the world his nation was not sliding into civil war.